Reminder: Stop for red lights

[nowalmart.livejournal.com]

Just a reminder for all of you drivers out there that the two lights on Alewife Brook Parkway between Mass Ave and Broadway are, in fact, traffic lights that do, in fact, turn red on occasion. They do not simply flash green and yellow all the time.

They turn red when a pedestrian wants to cross the road. Please stop when the light is red so you do not mow down some innocent pedestrian who is trying to cross in a crosswalk with a red light.

I say this because I am a runner and my long run takes me down Alewife Brook Parkway. I do not want to have to cross the road, but the sidewalk only goes half the distance on the south-east side of the road. I get to a crossing, I press the button, the light turns red, and then EVERY TIME a car comes flying through at a very high rate of speed. One driver even flicked me off and honked his horn at me.

I normally have other problems with drivers and crosswalks while on my runs, but this is the one place where I consistently feel like if I make one wrong move I might get seriously hurt.

Comments

[bombardiette.livejournal.com]

I feel the same way driving through the rotaries on that road. It's not just pedestrians that so many drivers here have a flagrant disregard for.

Be safe.