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

What we obviously need to do is close down north gate. No alcohol means no reason to cross, or opportunity to be drunk. If it saves one life, it's worth it. It would even be cheap, just pass an ordinance and close the bars. Some bar owners might lose money, but what's a little money if we save a life, right guys?

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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.

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So the same person who is so inebriated they think it's fine to run across University at night is going to pause and say to himself: "Running across the street here would be irresponsible. I think I'll walk out of my way to take the footbridge. I was too wasted to be patient for the signaled pedestrian crosswalk, but I am perfectly okay with taking the time to go to the base of the footbridge instead."

We had the Rainbow Bridge over the train tracks between West Campus and Kyle back before they dug the underpass. I realize that some of y'all too young to know that. The reason why they dug the pedestrian tunnel/underpass was because few people used the rainbow bridge due to it being a minor inconvenience and we kept having the train run people over. A pedestrian bridge is not the solution.

A tunnel there is way, way, way too expensive when the only justification would be "drunk kids refuse to use the existing signaled crosswalks" and it has the same drawback - that being that drunk kids will still try to run across the street. These individuals crawled over a low wall/barrier to get to the street, so apparently, short of stringing a 10' razor-wire topped fence along University, people will still do it. In the end it comes down to personal responsibility/accountability. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

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Pedestrian bridge plus a wall/fence seems like a good solution to me. It would be the fastest way across unless you can jump a wall with ease.

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Mexico building that one too? You want to put a mile long fence on one side of the campus. This isn't a prison.

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.

I thought the incident last year was in the north gate parking garage, not on the street?

Wednesday evening about halfway through the Spring semester. About halfway in between the Corner and Northside Garage.


Jaywalking has never been something I've been aware of being monitored. Most of the police monitoring hangout near Logan's and Social looking for fights or PIs.