Okay, this is crazy! It’s a blog post from Greater Greater Washington about an intersection in the Washington, D.C. area that takes 8 1/2 minutes to cross legally to the other side of the road. And in the course of that crossing, you traverse 28(!!) lanes! No wonder two pedestrians were severely injured crossing the street there last week. Here’s the story.Okay, this is crazy! It’s a blog post from Greater Greater Washington about an intersection in the Washington, D.C. area that takes 8 1/2 minutes to cross legally to the other side of the road. And in the course of that crossing, you traverse 28(!!) lanes! No wonder two pedestrians were severely injured crossing the street there last week. Here’s the story.
On a related note, Streetsblog is looking for the worst intersections in the US: http://dc.streetsblog.org/2013/01/31/poll-the-hunt-for-the-worst-intersection-in-america-continues/
Wow, that will be interesting (and scary) to see what they come up with!