Pedestrian crossing

to campus? How do you interact with other users of the road (e.g., pedestrians, cyclists, drivers – for example, whether and how you stop for them)? Interviewee #1: I get around campus by foot. I live near campus, so I typically take the bus every so often to and from campus, but if not I just walk. I usually get to campus 10-20 minutes before any of my classes, and so I go to my first class when I get to campus. As a pedestrian, I usually cross the street whenever I feel it is safe enough. If…

have had multiple pedestrian involved accidents which have lead to personal injuries, and property damage; therefore, it is time our community received an elevated crosswalk to help protect…

that can be made to the pedestrian environment to encourage walking in Lowell. Sidewalks need to be made more walkable; there needs to be more lighting at night; during snow weather, plowing the sidewalks should be prioritized; public transportation should be more reliable, affordable and frequent; specialized transportation should be made available for disabled people; bus stops and stations should be made more convenient, more frequent and more safe; pedestrian crossings should be sufficient…

inclusion of the site. The planning in the City of Whittlesea has neglected the walking accessibility of footpath, causing the issue of public health and social issue. First, the environment has created a negative perception that prevents the pedestrian from staying on the street. During the observation, the street is completely…

boundaries (i.e. edges) of a space, as a way to comprehend a location. A road can be both a physical edge as well as a symbolic one, as is the intersection of Downing Street and Florence Street. The road is an obvious edge, or boundary for both cars and pedestrians but also a symbolic one because it is the edge of Clark's campus and the beginning of the Worcester community. At this intersection people from both 'worlds', Clark and Worcester, converge, forcing them to physical interact with one…

handheld device such as a cell phone or tablet. All though many pedestrians do not even realize that wearing headphones can cause serious injury or even death in some cases, it is actually a very real and present situation. Listening to music while you’re walking to work is like second nature to a lot of people in America. American’s are used to constantly…

narrate, it becomes clear that he is nervous about crossing the river since the water is fast and has a strong current, and the bridge is destroyed. For example, “I just couldn’t think of anything that could make me cross that bridge ever even once,” . This suggests that he doesn’t even want to cross this bridge one time because of how dangerous it is. Before he crosses the bridge, he holds Vardaman’s hand because of how uneasy he is about crossing the bridge. He describes the action of holding…

is becoming an all to possible reality; most of the time it seems as though everyone is constantly glued to a screen. In this case, the year is 2053 AD and the problem has progressed to the point where people no longer leave their houses. In the pedestrian, Ray Bradbury uses personification, metaphors and tone to give us a glimpse into the peculiar future we may be heading towards through the eyes of Mr. Mead. Throughout the story, Bradbury uses personification to give us a frightening look…

Expository Essay: The Pedestrian “The Pedestrian” is a dystopian story with a very unexpected plot twist, but it was hard for us to believe that technology could destroy society, just like how it was revealed in the story. We believe that this was not the indented reaction Bradbury had hoped for because, the story still leaves us with suspicion that technology can harm our society. However, The Pedestrian is not a typical story as it does not follow the normal story structure; finishing with a…

Ray Bradbury, the author of “The Pedestrian,” writes, “And on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard where only the faintest glimmers of firefly light appeared in flickers behind the windows.” According to Kathiann Kowalski, most college students in America use cell phones for 9 hours a day on average. The “Primal Screen” by Ellen Goodman is an editorial that gives specific facts and information about how much…