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are a number of elderly people crossing on the mid-block location due to church <br />services. <br />At the McMenemy/LC Road intersection, people are generally active walkers <br />using the trail system. I would believe they are better able to protect <br />themselves as compared to some of the elderly people crossing at the other <br />location. <br />Sight lines, obstructions, and usage have been cited by the resident and one of <br />my Council members as why the intersection merits the lighted crosswalk. <br />We would like your opinion, if you have time to check it out. <br />• An aerial photo showing the crosswalk locations and relevant distances. <br />• A summary of an e-mail between Lee Elfering, our City Engineer and Council Member <br />Torkelson. <br />I called Lee and asked about the crosswalks. I summarized his feedback in bullet points below. <br />My editorial below. Feel free to share. <br /> He does believe the existing crosswalk flasher locations ought to have been the top three <br />choices. <br /> He also says that the next (fourth) ranked crosswalk would be the McMenemy and LC Rd <br />Trail crossing. <br /> We took a few minutes to do an off the cuff evaluation of our <br />other striped crosswalks. We did not find other existing crosswalks that had the <br />combination of uncontrolled traffic, traffic volume and speed, use considerations (kids <br />or seniors), or sight line problems as the top 4 rankings. <br /> He cautions against putting too many flashers up because drivers can become accustomed <br />to their use and they begin to pay less attention to them. <br /> Our over the phone evaluation is not a comprehensive study of crosswalks. <br />• Staff also prepared a short video that we can show tonight taken from a driver’s perspective. It <br />is about 1 minute and 40 seconds long. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />4