Pedestrian Unfriendly Cranston

 I knew it would happen and soon - in pedestrian unfriendly

    Cranston, R.I. - also the city with the worst credit rating in the

    country. A few months ago I sent a letter to editor warning about the

    danger of crossing Reservoir Ave even at crosswalks. It was ignored.

            Yesterday I read on page B-3 of the  Providence Journal ( Jan. 14 ):

         " Traffic victim identified as Cranston woman ". RIP 83 year old

    Caroline Angelosanto.

            Where I routinely cross not far from where Caroline was killed

    -and where almost a year a ago a stray Rottweiler ambushed me - at the

    intersection of Reservoir and Legion - there is a treacherous crosswalk.

               Soon after the pedestrian sees a flashing WALK signal, a

    driver stopped at Legion sees a flashing  DON'T WALK signal. It should

    flash CAUTION PEDESTRIANS instead.  Someday - I am sure - this headline

    will appear on page B-3 : " Crank letter writer killed by a car on

    Reservoir ". As Nero said of himself : " But what an artist is no more ! "