The highly requested stoplights are installed and ready to be turned on later this month at one of the busiest pedestrian crossings across I-35 in Austin.
Jessica Monteiro and Esteban Puerto walk their dogs, Forrest and Moose, along the Fourth Street crossing at I-35. New traffic signals have been installed and are scheduled to be activated this month after testing.
The city has tried to reduce the danger. The northbound crosswalk was shortened. Parking was banned along part of the frontage road, so people can get a better view of oncoming cars, which sometimes travel at highway speeds.Sydney Wright, an artist and songwriter, was hit by a car while riding a scooter to yoga class on a Saturday morning in 2018.
"When you think about where congestion happens, it's going to happen at the major streets," city transportation engineer Nathan Wilkes said."If there's any congestion, it's going to be at Sixth, Seventh and Eighth ," he said. But they will only be in operation a few years before a reconfiguration of the interstate wipes them off the map.that will completely transform the look of I-35 downtown and eliminate the need for the traffic signals at Fourth Street.An early rendering of the I-35 expansion showed one possible scenario of how the bike path and rail line might cross I-35.
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