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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?
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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 10:20 am to ShaneTheLegLechler
They have done a lot. Barriers, closed a road, cracked down on jay walkers.
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 10:23 am to Farmer1906
I don't really know how much more they can do honestly. I don't know where the incident happened, but if you build a crosswalk by Corner/the post office kids are still going to jay walk down by the Citgo and where Daisy Duke's used to be(forgot what the new bar is called)
I guess if you build one and it saves one more incident like this it's worth it though
I guess if you build one and it saves one more incident like this it's worth it though
Posted on 10/19/15 at 10:29 am to ShaneTheLegLechler
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I guess if you build one and it saves one more incident like this it's worth it though
No, it's not. We can't save people from their own bad choices." IF IT SAVES JUST ONE LIFE!!" is a bad reason to do anything with government. I'm sure you could save a life if you closed off university from Texas to wellborn every weekend, but is that something we should actually do? No.
Posted on 10/19/15 at 10:30 am to cokebottleag
It's a fairly easy thing to do though and would help with traffic flow somewhat also, which is an issue there on game days
Posted on 10/19/15 at 10:43 am to ShaneTheLegLechler
Traffic control officers are the only method that works.
But you can't prevent every possible eventuality, no matter how much money you throw.
But you can't prevent every possible eventuality, no matter how much money you throw.
Posted on 10/19/15 at 10:48 am to PowerTool
I think a couple of foot bridges would work well
It would be a constant flow of foot traffic instead of bottling up and waiting for the lights
It would be a constant flow of foot traffic instead of bottling up and waiting for the lights
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 11:17 am to Old Sarge
You could put up a couple of foot bridges there.
You could also put several speed bumps in that stretch, like in a mall parking lot, to slow down the traffic. Might still be a few pedestrians hit, but a car going 10 mph instead of 30 mph would likely reduce fatalities.
You could also put several speed bumps in that stretch, like in a mall parking lot, to slow down the traffic. Might still be a few pedestrians hit, but a car going 10 mph instead of 30 mph would likely reduce fatalities.
Posted on 10/19/15 at 11:24 am to PikeBishop
I'm pretty sure the speed limit is 40 or 45 on university. Why on earth would you put speed bumps on a 4 lane street?
Posted on 10/19/15 at 11:27 am to PikeBishop
Speed bumps on a six lane road would be a nightmare and people wouldn't use the pedestrian ramps.
The only thing I can think of that might work to everyone's benefit is closing the street down between Wellborn and College Main on gameday. The traffic issue though, ooof. The traffic through the backstreets would get pretty bad.
At least you would get some outdoor activity on the closed street between the bars and campus as a side benefit but there is no easy answer with this one.
The only thing I can think of that might work to everyone's benefit is closing the street down between Wellborn and College Main on gameday. The traffic issue though, ooof. The traffic through the backstreets would get pretty bad.
At least you would get some outdoor activity on the closed street between the bars and campus as a side benefit but there is no easy answer with this one.
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 11:37 am to cokebottleag
quote:The deaths are unfortunate, but this is the correct answer.quote:No, it's not. We can't save people from their own bad choices." IF IT SAVES JUST ONE LIFE!!" is a bad reason to do anything with government. I'm sure you could save a life if you closed off university from Texas to wellborn every weekend, but is that something we should actually do? No
I guess if you build one and it saves one more incident like this it's worth it though
It has been only a few years since the entire street was reworked to enhance safety ... and the students refuse to use the safe options.
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 11:59 am to AggieHank86
Ignore my dumbass.
This post was edited on 10/19/15 at 1:57 pm
Posted on 10/19/15 at 12:21 pm to Farmer1906
Don't think a foot bridge would work, back when they had one for crossing the railroad tracks nobody used it, that's why we now have the underpass.
From what I read, it sounds like the two kids jumped the barrier and tried to make it across. They purposely went around a safety feature, so short of making the barrier as tall as the Berlin Wall, not much you could have done to change what happened.
From what I read, it sounds like the two kids jumped the barrier and tried to make it across. They purposely went around a safety feature, so short of making the barrier as tall as the Berlin Wall, not much you could have done to change what happened.
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.
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