Comments on: Relegating Buses to Second-Class Status http://dcentric.wamu.org/2010/11/relegating-buses-to-second-class-status/ Race, Class, The District. Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Golden Silence http://dcentric.wamu.org/2010/11/relegating-buses-to-second-class-status/#comment-136 Golden Silence Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:19:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=2075#comment-136 Tell me about it. Years ago, in my hometown of Buffalo, it took the death of a woman trying to cross the busy Walden Avenue (which is basically a seven-lane highway in the suburbs) to get to the Galleria for them to finally install a bus stop on the mall's property. I remember having to cross Walden myself from the bus stop to get to the Galleria and I felt as if I was cheating death each time. It was the scariest experience to cross that street, especially when you have drivers too concerned with beating the light to care about pedestrians trying to cross the street. Here's an article <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,984137-1,00.html" rel="nofollow">Time</a> did about it years back. Tell me about it. Years ago, in my hometown of Buffalo, it took the death of a woman trying to cross the busy Walden Avenue (which is basically a seven-lane highway in the suburbs) to get to the Galleria for them to finally install a bus stop on the mall’s property. I remember having to cross Walden myself from the bus stop to get to the Galleria and I felt as if I was cheating death each time. It was the scariest experience to cross that street, especially when you have drivers too concerned with beating the light to care about pedestrians trying to cross the street.

Here’s an article Time did about it years back.

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