Word: pedestrianization
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...when Rohit Chopra '04 arrived at Harvard, he was struck by a lack of pedestrian walk signs like the ones that had populated his native Philadelphia. After being elected to the Undergraduate Council, he quickly moved to pass a bill earlier this past fall to make the Square a safer place...
...while the campus mourned the passing of Palmer-Sherman, the harder questions of implementing safer pedestrian solutions are still struggling with red tape in both the University and the City...
...Undergraduate Council passed a resolution written by Chopra that called for "Yield to Pedestrians" signs to be installed along Mass. Ave. and Mt. Auburn St. and for increased enforcement of pedestrian yield laws...
...years ago, researchers merely slowed light down to a pedestrian speed of 40 m.p.h. But now two Harvard research groups have independently brought light to a complete stop...
...theory, crosswalks are supposed to allow for safe street crossings. But many, such as those on Mount Auburn Street, are placed in locations where cars are moving at such great speeds that they may not be able to stop abruptly for a pedestrian, let alone a pedestrian who walks into a crosswalk from behind a van. The Massachusetts Avenue crosswalk in front of the Harvard Bookstore is directly after a 90-degree curve, where neither speeding cars nor talking pedestrians can see each other. This situation is not safe for anyone...