Posted on 07/21/2013 2:44:32 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
A photograph by The Inquirer's Michael Bryant last week revealed most of what one needs to know about Philadelphia's Roosevelt Boulevard. The day after an alleged drag racer killed a woman and three children trying to cross the thoroughfare, it shows another woman clutching a child as she runs through traffic on the same stretch of road. The multilane Boulevard has exacted an inordinate pedestrian death toll for decades, and officials have promised to deal with it for almost as long. But as the photo illustrates, the road continues to encourage recklessness among drivers and pedestrians alike.
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Going to buy some Skittles.
You have to give them credit for the way the lights are controlled. If your a speed racer but stop at lights, you might as well give up and do 40.
Nobody uses crosswalks any more?
Nobody looks both ways before crossing the road any more?
Growing up, while I wasn’t forced to use crosswalks in our neighborhood (all single-family houses, fairly quiet neighborhood), we did use crosswalks anywhere there was significant traffic - and then, only after looking both ways.
Of course, my parents also taught me to look both ways before walking across the traffic in a parking lot, even in front of the store entrance. Now it seems that nobody looks - in parking lots, or in roads. They just go because it is all about THEM.
Khusen Akhmedov any relation to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?
People around here do this crap all the time. They walk into moving traffic on busy streets and the “communities” are all surprised when they keep getting flattened. Every few weeks, we hear about a mother, father, son, daughter, aunt or uncle getting tragically run down in the middle of streets streets with crosswalks and lights. They expect the taxpayers to pay for “safer crossings” which they will ignore and cross where they want anyway.
One group, La Raza I think, claimed that it was racist because their people are used to just walking wherever they want so we have to be more careful. We have to be on the lookout for some illegal, possibly drunk, that doesn’t understand English running out in front of moving cars in mid-day traffic because it’s what they do in whatever 3rd world sewer they came from.
When I was a kid and someone get run over because they didn’t follow the rules, they were considered the one’s at fault.
It’s upside down around here.
I bet there aren’t nearly as many pedestrians hit in the northeast.
What I see there is child abuse.
A suicidal woman wanting to take her child out with her.
I grew up in the Philadelphia area. (I left in 1971 to go into the Army.) I drove Roosevelt Blvd. for the last time in ‘79. It was a road where drivers tested the road — and each other. It wasn’t a road for wussies.
If a white driver hit this woman Jesse and Al would be down there like stink on a skunk.
Well, the adult pedestrians dying is bad enough; you can blame them to an extent. But, the kids dying, as a result of adult stupidity - driver or pedestrian, is unacceptable.
Why not build a pedestrian bridge with heavy fines or even short jail time for scofflaws who don’t use it?
This is not just a Philly problem. It is a national problem. Here, in California, wherever there is a significant number of that "certain" minority, this is the rule rather than the exception.
The tendency to do that is either genetic or cultural. No other identifiable group use that practice to insist on "respect," by daring motor vehicles to hit them. The sense of entitlement extends to immunity from cultural safety rules that apply to everyone else. To get away with it with impunity simply reinforces (in their minds) their sense of special status.
LOL
The sneaky secret is, if you do something like 38.9 mph, you can clear lights like magic.
The “speed racers” just ignore the damn lights. I think that they found if you do about 80 something, its the same timing as the 38.9.
There’s been lots of looky into the timing of those damn lights.
Bottom line, crossing Roosy? Put your effin antenna up and say a prayer.
Pennsylvania, what place!
OH, BTW, in the city of Philly, (and probably the rest of the state) a freakin HORSE HAS RIGHT OF WAY! NO QUESTIONS.
Especially in Amishland.
Local ordinances say otherwise, but I think state law still recognizes the horse as legitimate transport with right of way anywhere it goes.
That road never should have been built that way. And it's disgraceful how many simple fixes could have been implemented over the years but never have been.
Nobody uses crosswalks any more?
One of the problems you have there is that under Pennsylvania law, motorists are required to stop and yield to pedestrians in a marked crosswalk. Roosevelt Boulevard has a number of locations where a crosswalk is painted on the roadway in the middle of a long stretch of road between signalized intersections where sight distances may not be ideal and where motorists can't possibly see pedestrians while they're paying attention to everything else going on around them. Check out a Google aerial view of the area around the Faunce Street intersection. There's no way a crosswalk should be painted across a twelve-lane boulevard like that.
She could try crossing at the light for starters.
Really, if crossing that road is so bad, maybe a few pedestrian bridges are in order.
What’s wrong with the picture is you didn’t post it. Why should I follow the link just to see it?
OK, I just looked at the road on Bing maps, overhead view. I see a couple of crosswalks between intersections. Stupid idea. People trying to make the next light in a rough part of town don’t need to be stopping for pedestrian traffic.
Just looked at Faunce Street and Roosevelt - I can see the problem. Apartments on one side, shopping on the other. The people that own homes on the east side of Roosevelt probably don’t want it to be too easy for the potentially low-income residents on the west side to get to their side of the road. Crime concerns. It’s a natural barrier.
Crosswalk old school, she new school.
Then they use them as a platform to throw chunks of concrete at the cars as they pass underneath.
In that case, maybe pedestrian tunnels. :) Or maybe just big fences so that they HAVE to go to an intersection to cross.
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