Sidewalks?! Finally!!
After 11 years of living on this street and begging the city for sidewalks, they finally agreed to put them in.
When I went out to get the mail yesterday, I found a door tag hanging on the doorknob that said construction of sidewalks begins on Monday 7/27/2009, and will end on 8/28/2009.
Legally, there should have been sidewalks here many years ago.
If a students live within 2 miles of their school, they cannot take the bus to school, so they have to walk or ride their bikes.
There are 2 elementary schools within 2 miles of this street, and there are a ton of kids in this neighborhood who have to walk, so they've had to walk on the sides of the road for years and years to get to school.
So many kids have been driven off the road by cars going up and down the street speeding, honking, scaring kids, and just people walking to the store or whatever.
After awhile it gets pretty tiring hearing the alarms of fire trucks or police cars going after the speeders racing down the street, or going to rescue people from a car accident.
Last year, 3 kids were hit by cars while riding their bikes to school, and countless pedestrians have been run off the road or hit by cars as well, so it's about time the city listened to our complaints and agreed to put in the sidewalks.
All of the construction is going to suck, but at least we're finally going to be safe walking up the street.
Comments
So glad you are getting your sidewalks! Better late than never, right? I wish we had some out here.
Posted by: Devilish Southern Belle | July 25, 2009 10:22 PM
This is the fourth time I've misread your first line as "after 11 yrs of living on the streets". Yikes! :D
I'm so glad you're finally getting sidewalks. We don't have any here, yet, either, and more than once I've come close to being hit by a car, so I can imagine how you feel.
Posted by: Louise | July 26, 2009 11:28 PM
YAY sidewalks! I grew up on a street with none and I never could ride my bike on the road....
Posted by: michelle | July 27, 2009 7:12 PM
After you said that, I had to go read my post again to make sure that I didn't say that I was living on the streets....LOL
But yeah, we've almost been hit and I was run off the road several times.
Once when Sebastian and I were walking home from the store, a car was specifically aiming for us, getting closer and closer to the white line, speeding up, I though for sure he was aiming to hit us, so I pushed Sebastian into the ditch and jumped in too.
The car full of rotten teenagers just started laughing and screaming at us, "Got ya! Ha ha! Losers!"
They were aiming for us, they wanted to make us hit the ditch. I will be so glad when the sidewalks are done, it will save many more stints like that from happening.
Posted by: Kat | July 30, 2009 12:50 PM