>The police should spend a week ticketing pedestrians who cross illegally and enforce that law
I’m aware of the law too but when many drivers fail to yield to pedestrians at crosswalks at all, ticketing a driver for not waiting until the pedestrian gets onto the sidewalk is kind of ridiculous.
On the other hand, what are the police going to do about people jaywalking all over E. Ridgewood Avenue? I was driving down E. Ridgewood Ave the other day and literally had to stop every few feet for people running across the street, coming out from in between cars on either side of the street, especially on the block by the movie theatre. It’s no wonder drivers have trouble observing crosswalks on E. Ridgewood Ave….the whole street is treated as a crosswalk and it’s very difficult to drive, dodge pedestrians every few feet and also anticipate the crosswalk ahead. And the worst offenders aren’t the teens but the moms holding the hands of their little kids and making a run for it from wherever they happen to have parked.
The police should spend a week ticketing pedestrians who cross illegally and enforce that law. It would also be helpful to have a traffic cop stationed by the movie theatre during peak hours to help people cross.
