Red Lights Await Paint Branch Crosswalk
Department of Public Works says traffic signal, activated by pedestrians, will replace the current flashing yellow warning lights in place.
In about two weeks’ time, drivers will likely see red lights over a crosswalk along Paint Branch Parkway that has long drawn questions of safety—and necessity—in the past. “We’re installing a traffic signal,” said Susan Hubbard, an information officer with the county’s Department of Public Works. “It’s been in the pipeline for well over a year now.” Already aided by speed cameras, the crosswalk in question was fitted with flashing warning lights and rumble strips in 2009. Part of that was in response to cases of pedestrians—one on foot, the other a bicyclist—being struck by cars there. Like the warning lights, which Hubbard said would eventually be removed, the traffic lights will go from green to yellow to red by pushing a button located …
Dan Blasberg
4:15 pm on Monday, June 13, 2011
And yet, there are no lights what so ever for the northern end of the trolly trail at Greenbelt Rd. that has just as much if not more pedestrian and bicycle traffic. more ›