Coming to a district near you?
How nice would it be to see these all over the city? They're smart, safe, attractive, and no... I'm not talking about the Rodeo 4X4. I'm talking about the walking-strip that they were laying down in front of the Sidway Building yesterday. Brilliant. Now that there are people living in downtown, the city should start to become more pedestrian (and bike) friendly...
Supposedly this was a big experiment to see how certain testing results would fare. I suppose the results would answer questions like, are they effective and can we afford them? If not, we can all be rest assured that there will be one street in Buffalo (other than in the University District) that will be safe to cross.
Councilman Marc Coppola was on hand to observe the installation process. I asked if we would start seeing more of these crosswalks throughout the city. He told me that he is going to try his hardest to vie for some in his district. Hmmm. I wonder if the rest of the council representatives will be looking into this for their own districts. I certainly hope so.
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BuffaloRox
Let's see what they look like after a couple of seasons of plowing before we invest too much money. The faux redbrick crosswalks around UB took a beating.
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BuffaloPundit
Curb extensions and bike lanes would help, too. Those bricks look nice, but just painting zebra crossings would be a good start.
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W. Morgan Smith
I was at the presentation by the company that makes this product, Street Print. Simply put the premise is that the reflective material is inset in regular asphalt so that it is 1)below the level of plow blades and tire friction, and 2) has the flexibility and durability of asphalt (as opposed to brittle concrete).
Apparently this product has been used with good results in metro Toronto and elsewhere with snow and freezing, but seeing will be believing.
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The demonstration was intiated by NYS Department of Transportation, which has control of Goodell as a feeder from the 33. If it proves successful the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus is hoping to use it for crosswalks within the Campus, and I suspect that Buffalo Place will be advocating for its use by the City throughout Downtown.
If it performs as advertised the only drawback to it is that it can only be installed in fresh asphalt, so it is something that could only be added to steets if they have been recently repaved.
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