"Walk sign is on in all directions. Walk sign is on in all directions. Walk sign is on in all directions."
That is what the crosswalks on NE 10th adjacent to the Bellevue Transit Center sound like.
There is a similar "Walk signs in all directions" cycle for the traffic signals on First Avenue in downtown Seattle near the Pike Place Market.
RantWoman is way too happy to go on record saying that at the intersection of 9th and James outside the trauma / ER entrance at Harborview in the city of Seattle also really needs to replace the current impossible 4-way stop regimen with traffic signals on a cycle that includes an "all-way" walk segment.
RantWoman does not know Rebecca Scollard, the 42-year-old woman struck by a garbage truck and dragged a considerable distance before being pronounced dead outside Harborview hospital last week. But RantWoman has tried to cross streets at that intersection. SOME of the time RantWoman makes it. Some of the time, RantWoman is glad to be mobile enough to walk to the intersection with a stoplight at 9th and Jefferson.
But RantWoman knows that:
--A LOT of the people who need to cross streets at 9th and James have walkers, canes, wheelchairs, crutches, just for starters. Or they cannot move fast for some less visible reason.
--Besides all manner of the halt and lame and disabled and impaired needing to cross streets there, the area is full of buses, ambulances, garbage trucks, fire engines, and who knows what else. Even under the best condition drivers are going to have LOTS of reasons it is difficult to see all the people described above who need to cross the street
RantWoman would SO prefer just to remember Rebecca Scollard and welcome a new traffic signal regimen instead of fighting her urge to make snarky comments about how conveninet it is to have all these options for collisions between humans and vehicles all stacked up right outside the Harborview ER.
Word!
Media moments, found by a search string RantWoman finds sort of embarrassing:
Rebecca garbage Harborview.
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2014/08/driver_of_seattle_garbage_truc.html
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Truck-in-deadly-First-Hill-hit-and-run-owned-by-CleanScapes-269572261.html?tab=video&c=y
http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2014/08/cleanscapes-truck-involved-in-fatal-first-hill-hit-and-run/
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