Crazy crosswalks in Cranston

Nothing new here : the Greater Providence area is very pedestrian

    unfriendly. Perhaps if the state could just cancel the driving license

    of everybody over 60, the PROBLEM of too much traffic in the too small

    Ocean State will be solved. But people think they have a right to their

    mechanical anti-people monster as much as actor Charlton Heston thinks

    he has a right to his gun. Imagine HIM five years from now - not quite

    in full possession of his faculties - driving around Rhode Island with

    a rifle at his side, looking for GREEN people who hate the NRA !

                 Recently I saw a young woman with a baby in her arms trying

    to cross busy Reservoir Ave. in Cranston. There are just not enough crosswalks

    on that  major traffic artery, I reflected.

             A ridiculous situation where there is a crosswalk on Reservoir.

    The cautious pedestrian waits for the flashing white WALK signal. In a

    second it changes to a flashing red DON'T WALK signal - which a driver

    at Legion Ave. , for instance, might  interpret as a GO signal for

    him or her. The pedestrian with the right of way is nearly run over

    by the turning automobile.

               That flashing red DON'T WALK signal should instead read : CAUTION

    PEDESTRIAN CROSSING !

                 Like the ancient god Moloch, the automobile god is being

    fed more and more human sacrifices. And we  still kiss its feet while

    it crushes our hearts !