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Thanks but I haven't given any advice on this thread.  I actually don't find it that challenging to walk across the road.[/quote]

It's good that it's not challenging to walk across the road where you walk. I wish that in most places, it weren't challenging to walk across the road. But unfortunately, in many places, even in DC (let alone the suburbs and exurbs), [b]I personally find it quite[/b] challenging to walk across the road.[/quote]

Fixed that for you.  I don't have the same experience.[/quote]

Probably because you're walking across different roads, eh?

I'm the PP you're responding to, and no, it's not me personally. Nobody finds it unchallenging to walk across[b] 6-lane or 8-lane roads [/b]with where people drive 40 mph or faster, with intersections with slip lanes, double left turn lanes, walk signals that don't give you enough time to cross, rounded corners so drivers can turn at 30 mph, no sidewalks, marked crosswalks where you have to cross 3 roads in order to get across the road, etc.

Even in downtown Bethesda and downtown Silver Spring, which ought to be great for walking, people are getting hit all the time. Unless you're looking at the data, you have no idea.[/quote]
You need to be advocating for pedestrian bridges for roads this large. We will never eliminate pedestrian deaths and injuries on roads that large with speeds that fast. Were not getting rid of cars. But there are safer ways to cross large intersections if everyone make these requests a priority.

I’d also love it if we’d adopt the European (maybe just British?) method of cars in all directions stop at the same time and pedestrians cross all together in all directions. That is really the only safe way for right and left turns to happen. [/quote]

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