Comments on: The Crosswalk http://www.apartment2024.com/2007/05/10/the-crosswalk/ An old-fashioned personal blog, currently featuring a photo a day. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:08:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Fran http://www.apartment2024.com/2007/05/10/the-crosswalk/#comment-2124 Fran Sat, 12 May 2007 04:26:14 +0000 http://www.apartment2024.com/2007/05/10/the-crosswalk/#comment-2124 There are plenty of small towns still on the East Coast where you have to stop for pedestrians in stopwalks. Some are in the Philadelphia metropolitan area! I lived in NJ for three years and some of those towns also ticket you for driving over 25 mph! (well, _I_ never got a ticket, of course...) Since I was definitely a Philadelphia driver when I moved to NJ, I can vouch for the possibility of driver re-training. So I am guessing in Portland if you drive through a light as it turns from yellow to red, two more cars don't drive through after you? There are plenty of small towns still on the East Coast where you have to stop for pedestrians in stopwalks. Some are in the Philadelphia metropolitan area! I lived in NJ for three years and some of those towns also ticket you for driving over 25 mph! (well, _I_ never got a ticket, of course…)

Since I was definitely a Philadelphia driver when I moved to NJ, I can vouch for the possibility of driver re-training.

So I am guessing in Portland if you drive through a light as it turns from yellow to red, two more cars don’t drive through after you?

]]> By: Paul http://www.apartment2024.com/2007/05/10/the-crosswalk/#comment-2123 Paul Fri, 11 May 2007 20:42:15 +0000 http://www.apartment2024.com/2007/05/10/the-crosswalk/#comment-2123 Almost everywhere in the US, there is an IMPLIED crosswalk at an intersection, even if there is no striping, where, of course, you aren't allowed to run down pedestrians! Now, was this a mid-block crossing (which are actually safer, so long as drivers are alert)? The fact that pedestrians and bicyclists are given such priority both in policy and on the street is another reason I'm plotting my return to alt.transportation heaven Portland after my 2 year "banishment". I describe Philadelphia as "Harsh Urbanism" compared to the mellow, green wonderland of Portland, especially downtown, with its' glistening brick sidewalks along the tree-lined transit mall. Marisa, you've got to dump the car!! What are you doing with a car, living in CC, anyway?! I rode the el and a bus to St Joe's once, so I know it can be done- or what about the Bala Cynwd train?! Almost everywhere in the US, there is an IMPLIED crosswalk at an intersection, even if there is no striping, where, of course, you aren’t allowed to run down pedestrians! Now, was this a mid-block crossing (which are actually safer, so long as drivers are alert)?
The fact that pedestrians and bicyclists are given such priority both in policy and on the street is another reason I’m plotting my return to alt.transportation heaven Portland after my 2 year “banishment”.

I describe Philadelphia as “Harsh Urbanism” compared to the mellow, green wonderland of Portland, especially downtown, with its’ glistening brick sidewalks along the tree-lined transit mall.

Marisa, you’ve got to dump the car!! What are you doing with a car, living in CC, anyway?! I rode the el and a bus to St Joe’s once, so I know it can be done- or what about the Bala Cynwd train?!

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