I agree with Bryan. Since most Americans don’t know that this type of crossing demands that vehicles stop for crossing pedestrians, I wouldn’t cross here to save my life. People have sped up when I have tried to cross here. As if I am some sort of road kill waiting to be born.

Really for this to be a good crossing it should have a elevated path connecting both sidewalks and so as to create a speed bump like structure. Additionally, it should have an overhead flashing light that can be activated by push button on both sides.

But the Loop is very poorly administered in terms of crosswalks and signals. I have sent letters to U. City asking them to review the crossing signals at Delmar and Leland, because the walk sign only appears when someone has pushed the walk button. This causes people to get frustrated and cross regardless of the signal which seems to me a pretty ignorant policy for the city to have. For such a busy pedestrian intersection, the policy should be automatic, corresponding walk signals when the lights turn to green. Instead of fixing it, they said it had been checked and it was safe. I don’t think they understood what I meant or maybe it was just too hard for them to understand. Later I found out that Delmar is a county road and so that light isn’t even controlled by U. City and so the officials lied to me, since they didn’t even have control over the situation. Needless to say, this is a problem for Delmar throughout because it extends across the city limits and is governed by two or three jurisdictions. But keep on keep’n on. Someday things might get fixed!

I think the answer here is the yellow flashing light activated by the pedestrian pushing a button. If a yellow light flashes constantly, people won’t pay much attention to it, but if you’re driving along and it suddenly starts to flash, that would certainly grab my attention. I say try that first. Speed bumps later if necessary but only as a last resort. Even if you drive slow enough those things are hard on cars. If the yellow flashing light doesn’t work add a crossing gate like at a railroad crossing.

I have worked in the loop for fifteen years and all of the cross walks are difficult.

Most of the problems are that drivers don’t pay attention or know how to drive. Then there are a few clueless pedestrians that forget that even though they have the right of way, it isn’t right to cross late in a light cycle.

The crosswalk mentioned gets overlooked partly because of the right turn only lane to the east at the Metrolink station and the proximity to the busy intersection of Skinker to the west.

Yes, this crosswalk needs curb cuts, but you wouldn’t be wise to roll across there without bodyguards.