In an effort to make C-Ville a more pedestrian-friendly village 58 people were in court the other day that had been ticketed for trespassing on the railroad tracks behind the Corner.
A tipster reports that in 2007 the city police wrote 8 tickets to drivers for failing to yield to pedestrians and 12 so far in 2008.
I know I was sprinting as fast as I could the other night to get across the tracks to X-Lounge. Was I breaking the law just to get a drink? I recall a lot of cars hitting bicyclists over the past few years, and the drivers never get tickets. Why should pedestrians have to fight with the low quality drivers around here. A train seems like a vastly better risk.
I’m still peeved that the village won’t let people walk across the tracks under the Belmont bridge. When one is trying to catch a bus you have to walk through the musical marshmallow, and the crapshawvian rules force you to walk all the way around it during pointless performances. I was late for my bus the other day. If the city would just add a pedestrian walkway under the bridge life would be so much better. But I keep forgetting the goal of the village is to destroy the quality of existence.
No one gets hurt. Let pedestrians walk across tracks. How else could that Stephen King movie get made? Does the village want to stifle Hollywood?
