Back in May, I wrote about a roadside memorial for a cyclist killed at the intersection of Ridge and Girard Avenues, very close to the laundromat where I work. I bike through that intersection several times daily, and it's certainly a rough spot. I mean look at this list:
- Trolley tracks and several asphalt ripples surrounding them
- "No Left Turn" signs that everyone ignores
- Traffic entering and exiting a gas station on the northwest corner of the intersection
- A sizable sinkhole that hasn't been filled for months (you'll see it below)
- During the school year, Girard College students and busses in addition to the usual complement of pedestrians and traffic
All these problems are not solved, and likely won't be any time soon, but I saw a rather obvious step in the right direction today, freshly-painted crosswalks:
Seriously. Look at that sinkhole. This development likely doesn't help all that much for cyclists' safety, but they're trying. Even though I get into my fair share of dust-ups with them, pedestrians are people too.
On another note, things you don't notice when you're driving in a car, little piles of reflective glass beads that were applied to the wet crosswalk paint:
It's not what you think it is...
So yes, they're reflective, which is definitely a good thing. Next step, we all become reflective. Hehe.
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