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Red and Black
‘I don’t want to fall into the road’:
On University, students contend with busy traffic and narrow sidewalks
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by Ash Newton
Students, teachers and neighborhood residents alike are all familiar with the sight: every day at 2:30 p.m., the sidewalks around the intersection of University Boulevard, Caddington and Gabel Street all become flooded with pedestrians.
Commuting students traveling south on University are forced into one small bus stop across the street from our school building, and crossing the busy intersection presents a number of difficulties: the main one being that there is not enough space, anywhere, to wait to cross.
A sidewalk is meant to provide two primary utilities: to create a safe area for pedestrians to walk alongside the road, and to create a space for crossing pedestrians to wait until the road is clear.
The sidewalks along University are effective at neither; instead, walkers must inch single-file along the fence while waiters congregate at the curb, taking any gap See SIDEWALKS, Page 2
