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Why don't they build a foot bridge from campus to Northgate?
Posted on 10/19/15 at 10:11 am
Posted on 10/19/15 at 10:11 am
2 families are burying kids this week, that really hurts. How much could it possibly cost?
Posted on 10/19/15 at 10:15 am to Old Sarge
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.
Posted on 10/19/15 at 10:18 am to Old Sarge
I don't know how much people would use it. I don't know the full story of what happened this weekend, but the only way you're going to stop the jaywalking of kids running out into the road is by putting barriers up that make it literally impossible to do or by planting cops up and down the street and ticketing people
It's very sad though. Having such a high traffic road next to all those bars with a ton of foot traffic is going to create some bad situations
It's very sad though. Having such a high traffic road next to all those bars with a ton of foot traffic is going to create some bad situations
Posted on 10/19/15 at 10:22 am to Old Sarge
Because college kids are the pedestrians and the drivers, and usually drunk.
Posted on 10/19/15 at 11:14 am to Old Sarge
You know, I was against the Wellborn underpass at first but now walking through it with hundreds of other Aggies is one of my favorite parts of going to a game.
Posted on 10/19/15 at 11:31 am to Old Sarge
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.
Posted on 10/19/15 at 11:46 am to Old Sarge
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.
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.
Posted on 10/19/15 at 12:22 pm to Old Sarge
You can build it but then you have to make people use it and therein lies the rub. As for closing University, that's laughable considering how narrow and over crowded the streets are in NG with parked cars as it is.
Posted on 10/19/15 at 1:52 pm to Old Sarge
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.
Posted on 10/19/15 at 3:36 pm to Old Sarge
We are a wealthy school, filled with wealthy people, in a wealthy state, and we can spend money on something. I lived in Moore, and as a freshman I remember a buddy grabbing me and making sure I didn't run across the street when I was wasted. My night vision is terrible and I couldn't really tell how far away it was. It's something we can figure out.
Posted on 10/20/15 at 8:52 pm to Old Sarge
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.
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