There’s a growing awareness in the Triad that making foot traffic convenient and safe is a good thing for the community. And yet some major intersections still lack adequate pedestrian crossing signage.
On this Carolina Curious, WFDD reporter David Ford wanted to know why the busy corner of University Parkway and Coliseum Drive in Winston-Salem still doesn’t have a pedestrian crosswalk with countdown lights.
When I first reported on this busy 7-lane intersection across from Goodwill Industries and near bus stops on each side of University, the pedestrians I spoke with there were concerned. They said they often had to run across multiple lanes as cars whizzed by at highway speeds.
That was 2009. Sixteen years later, city and state Department of Transportation officials have agreed to collaborate on a pedestrian crossing upgrade. Winston-Salem DOT Director Jeff Fansler says, given the size and complexi