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<br />• An e-mail from Deputy Mike Casey, Traffic Officer with Ramsey County Sheriff’s Department <br />offering his input on this matter. Also included below Mike’s comments is the e-mail asking <br />for his assistance. <br />Hi Joel <br />I went by the area this morning to look around. If the city is only going to put in <br />one lighted crosswalk, it should go in the mid-block location but needs to be <br />installed higher than the McMenemy one. A couple of reasons for this. There is <br />on-street parking on the north side of LC Rd and it would block the signal for <br />east bound traffic and when I stood by the lights just my height alone blocked <br />the lights. A good example of a higher lighted crosswalk is at Harriet and <br />Victoria. I thought it was a fancier system then what you have on McMenemy <br />but it appears to be the same one; only mounted higher. Once the system is up, <br />I hope we could get some feedback from the church/user to see if the lights <br />help. <br />I don’t think we need to have the other crosswalk changed right now and I don’t <br />want all crosswalks having a system installed because I believe people wouldn’t <br />stop for pedestrian unless the lights are on. I would only like to use them around <br />unusual spots, highly used areas and/or dangerous ones. <br /> I would like to thank the city for making improvements especially for <br />crosswalks. <br /> Mike <br />_______________________________________________________________ <br />Mike: <br />I’m wondering if you can help me out with this on Wednesday. <br />We had proposed putting two, pedestrian activated cross-walk signals up by St. <br />John’s Church. <br />One is already up on McMenemy. The second was to go on the mid-block <br />crosswalk from the parking lot on the north side of LC Road. <br />A resident feels we should install crossing lights on LC Road by the McMenemy <br />intersection that leads to our trail system on the north side of LC Road about <br />200 feet east of the mid-block location. <br /> <br />We felt the mid-block locations merited the lighted cross walks because traffic <br />isn’t necessarily looking for pedestrians away from intersections. Also, there <br />3