Why don't they build a foot bridge from campus to Northgate?

From what I understand they were walking across University. I don't know if it was not at a cross walk or not, but the driver had a green light. Pedestrians have to be smarter than that. I would be all for a under of overpass to make things easier.

Because college kids are the pedestrians and the drivers, and usually drunk.

There were so many people in that area. My group called it a night about 20 minutes before the accident due to the number of people in that specific area.

It would probably cost a LOT actually. Running across 6 lanes of 40 mph traffic at night is not smart. Is it cool that they're dead? No. But to suggest that some massive broken system is the cause is absurd. There's already a perfectly fine, established, safe way to do what they instead chose to do unsafely. There are signaled crosswalks there. They could/should have used them.

This to me is like cyclists who ride on fast, crowded, curvy roads (like, say, 2222 in Austin) and then want to complain about mean 'ol car drivers making the road unsafe for them. "Share the road!", etc. Riding a bike there is a bad idea in the first place, so while I don't want to see anyone hurt or killed, I think you bear a lot of the responsibility if it happens you in that situation.

Aw man, I hate hearing about these type of things. It happens at LSU like every other weekend and it's always either a drunk walker or a drunk driver. Sad man, really sad stuff.

It's sad, but it's not very common. I think this was the first person to be hit on the NG area of University since 2007. That's pretty rare considering the traffic and volume of drunks multiple nights a week.