I’m primarily a walker but I don’t see how they can expect drivers to stop for all the peds who cross against the lights. I thinks pedestrians that hold up traffic by crossing against the lights should be ticketed – esp at rush hour and esp when it prevents cars from turning on arrows such as at at Clinton and Monroe.

The crossing they showed doesn’t have a light but believe me, if they stopped they would be rear-ended. Nobody stops at these and giving out a few tickets isn’t going to do it. They need cones on the lane lines at the crosswalk or something.

Dear Bob. I believe the law implies giving the right of way in a crosswalk where there are no stop signs or lights. We must always be careful to avoid those walking agaainst a red light.

In Europe all zebra crossings are clearly marked with flashing bollards giving the motorist a heads up to be prepared to stop, while in Chicago we have to deal with some worn down painted on lines that are hardly visible in daytime let alone at night ! I agree with Bob also, how bout ticketing some pedestrians for crossing against the lights, could drum up some much needed revenue instead of always sticking it to the motorists !

Even at O’Hare motorists occasionally ignore the Traffic Management Aids . I enlisted the help of one to Cross from Terminal 3 to the Transportation Center. We were both in clearly marked crossing lanes, she had on a yellow safety vest and orange wand, signaled motorists to stop, and a Honda minivan brushed up against her. My brother a pedestrian in New York was hit by a car, by one of these I’ve got to save a couple of minutes, idiots. He spent six weeks in a coma, seven months in the hospital suffered a near fatal broken hip, ruptured colon, sepsis and 11 years later he still has a open wound in his back, not completely healed. That’s the price inflicted on him by a brainless moron who just had to get there a little faster.

Well, it;s a two way street. A lot of motorists enter the pedway before the light changes in their favor because pedestrians keep walking after getting a clear no walk. People on both sides of this issue keep going until the other guy had the red light. This is not the plan. NO WALK and YELLOW lights are meant to allow time to clear the intersection so the right of of a hurry and too rude. Witness all of the honkers. I agree, those who enter the pedway and have no green light should be ticketed, but so too should the pedestrians who hold up traffic and cause grid lock. Witness how rapidly Chicago Traffic Management personnel clear traffic from the December Parade of Lights with over two million people on the Magnificent Mile. When jay walkers were allowed to cause grid lock, traffic clearing after the parade took three hours. Now with the aid of Traffic Management people directing both vehicular and pedestrian traffic, the flow clears in thirty minutes. But can we legislate RESPECT?

Dear Bob – How about older people who can’t walk very fast, or people with disabilities. Should those “walkers” get ticketed as well? I’m sorry us walkers don’t move fast enough to accomodate your time schedule.