Friday, June 12, 2015

Pedestrion safe city?

Pedestrion safe?
Is your city pedestrion safe? Ever wondered how hard it
would be to get around your city on foot?
Imagine walking along on the sidewalk just for it to
sudenly end, or to have no crosswalk. If you live in Loma
Linda California thats what you expierience and then
some.
Then imagine being someone who is visualy impaired or in
a wheelchair having to deal with the sparce sidewalks as
well as un maintained sidewalks.
One such case is a fire hydrent in the middle of where a
sidewalk souuld be but isnt.
Loma Linda is a medical city with two major hospitals.
However, it is a mile walk or more between the hospitals
and the residential nieghborhoods.
Public transit is another issue. Although it is better
then some places it still needs work. OmniTrans runs to
and from the two hospitals. However, bus stops in town
are few and far between.
Again, residents get the short end of the deal by not
having nearby bus stops. If you live in a nieghborhood
the chances are good of having to wal a treaturous half
mile to a mile.
Why does the city not fix the issues and rather incure
the liability is unknown. But the fact that the liability
is there is of great concern not just to those who walk
but those those with cars as well.

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