to the right you see "our" subway station from where we took the train into boston. we would cross the street at the yellow "lane". the yellow would diminish over time, but periodically it would be repainted. more often than not cars would not stop. then i would yell a bit or otherwise make clear that i was not happy about that. i even once wrote the municipality asking whether something could be done about this crossing. there were some signs that cars are supposed to stop, but they werent very well visible (the yellow marking however should have been enough). but... the guy responded that this part of the road did not belong to the city, but to the MBTA (the massachusetts bay transportation authority; ie the boston subway), so i should write to them. i never did.... buses were coming at it like maniacs too, even though they were supposed to be driving only 6 miles an hour right after the yellow line...
every weekday we walked to this subway station and got off at north station. for 3 years! but when tim recently said "hey, can we still name all the stops?" we both could not. not with certainty.... funny, how quickly you forget some things...
4 comments:
We only remember the useful things probably.
That's different than the pedestrian crosswalks we have here. Drivers must stop. In the Maritime Provinces the drivers always stop regardless of where the person is crossing.
Some drivers only see other cars, not people or bicycles. Clueless!
Massachusetts drivers are notoriously bad drivers. In most other states, a driver seeing a pedestrian approach will stop to let the pedestrian cross, but not in Massachusetts.
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