It's been more than 20 years since Salt Lake City first introduced its crosswalk flag program. There are more than 300 locations in the city, and reporter PaightenHarkins wanted to know they really make streets safer. Here's what she learned.
In line with those efforts, the city is also reinvesting in its crosswalk flag program, city transportation engineer Dan Bergenthal said.Advocates with the local advocacy organization Sweet Streets say the flags are at best a band-aid solution to dangerous roads. Reid Ewing, a University of Utah professor of city and metropolitan planning, is less optimistic.
Each flag costs about $2. As they degrade, are stolen or otherwise disappear, either community sponsors or the city pays to replace them, Bergenthal said Salt Lake City’s famously wide streets make the flags “especially effective” here. He pointed to a Ewing, the U. professor, read the Texas study differently and noted compliance rates for people carrying flags varied, with some below 50%.
“You see people basically treating the neighborhood like it’s their highway first and the place people live second,” he said.he would still worry when they crossed the road.
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