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I need to get involved in my city government. Because I, a citizen, wish to petition for a redress of grievances.
In short, I need a crosswalk built. Take a look at this map.
I'm at the corner of Scott and Cabrillo. You can see I have a nice crosswalk on Cabrillo. I do pretty good business, during our annual census, I averaged 55-60 students a day, plus parents, younger kids along for the walk, etc.
But you will notice there is no crosswalk across Scott at my corner. This is a problem because the nearest legal crossings are at Monroe (top of the map) and Royal (at the bottom of the map.)
Add in that my school has a large number of immigrant parents, so I'm facing linguistic and cultural barriers. Which leads to the problem.
Epic jaywalking. Over a dozen that I see (I'm usually facing another direction to watch for pedestrians to cross) and Halford knows how many I miss.
Because it's simply ridiculous for a family coming up Cabrillo on the far side of Scott to have to walk that far out of the way to cross the street. So they risk it. I'm seeing mothers with four or five pre-school and school-aged children trying to get across Scott.
And Scott is dangerous. It's a major commuter route for some of the Valley's heavy hitters. Which means that one in three drivers is distracted. Trust me, I see it every single morning.
It's just a matter of time before some techie is reading a text and not watching the road.
I really don't want to have to call ion a vehicle-pedestrian incident.
So, what I'm going to pitch is an uncontrolled school crosswalk (the ones with the yellow bars, like I have) across Scott on the southside of Cabrillo. There's already a ramp cut on the far side, they'd just need to cut one on my side and repaint. This would cut about 8' off the left turn lane from NB Scott to WB Cabrillo.
Now I just need to figure out where to start? My council rep? The District?
The funny thing is I'd be making more work for myself, along with getting a partner to work the far side. But it'll be worth it. If anyone is curious as to why I'd need a partner, ask and I'll explain in the comments.
In short, I need a crosswalk built. Take a look at this map.
I'm at the corner of Scott and Cabrillo. You can see I have a nice crosswalk on Cabrillo. I do pretty good business, during our annual census, I averaged 55-60 students a day, plus parents, younger kids along for the walk, etc.
But you will notice there is no crosswalk across Scott at my corner. This is a problem because the nearest legal crossings are at Monroe (top of the map) and Royal (at the bottom of the map.)
Add in that my school has a large number of immigrant parents, so I'm facing linguistic and cultural barriers. Which leads to the problem.
Epic jaywalking. Over a dozen that I see (I'm usually facing another direction to watch for pedestrians to cross) and Halford knows how many I miss.
Because it's simply ridiculous for a family coming up Cabrillo on the far side of Scott to have to walk that far out of the way to cross the street. So they risk it. I'm seeing mothers with four or five pre-school and school-aged children trying to get across Scott.
And Scott is dangerous. It's a major commuter route for some of the Valley's heavy hitters. Which means that one in three drivers is distracted. Trust me, I see it every single morning.
It's just a matter of time before some techie is reading a text and not watching the road.
I really don't want to have to call ion a vehicle-pedestrian incident.
So, what I'm going to pitch is an uncontrolled school crosswalk (the ones with the yellow bars, like I have) across Scott on the southside of Cabrillo. There's already a ramp cut on the far side, they'd just need to cut one on my side and repaint. This would cut about 8' off the left turn lane from NB Scott to WB Cabrillo.
Now I just need to figure out where to start? My council rep? The District?
The funny thing is I'd be making more work for myself, along with getting a partner to work the far side. But it'll be worth it. If anyone is curious as to why I'd need a partner, ask and I'll explain in the comments.
