@gcvsa 😞 too little too late and too expensive, just block off a few lanes before anybody else gets killed, every stroad, every city. I want my coffin to be a concrete tomb blocking off the lane where I'm killed.
remembering the world day of remembrance when Oregon Walks went around the #Portland metro area putting up silhouette cutouts of pedestrian fatality victims on the streetside and ODOT sent crews out to take them down because drivers kept slowing down at those crosswalks 😞
“... out of all the priorities ODOT should have, removing these memorials of people killed on their unsafe roads was made a top one. Really, they couldn’t even leave them through the outbound rush hour?”
State Highway Dept employee sees cardboard cutout memorial to pedestrian who was killed in a crosswalk on their deadly #stroads:
“[a staffer] was driving home,” Hamilton explained, “And it startled him. It was alarming.”
“Another one [of the memorials] was on a sidewalk and it was facing right onto the street. That’s going to cause someone to stop. It can really cause confusion.”
Imagine it's your job to build and maintain these streets, and when you pass the shape of a person in a dark and rainy crosswalk, you're startled: "I could have killed that pedestrian", and your response is to remove those. 😞
@PedestrianError true 😞 they must tell themselves "I put up a 'crosswalk closed' sign everywhere it wasn't safe to cross, that should have worked... If only people would follow the rules and get in a car to cross."
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