It would help tremendously if we had sidewalks also! However, I know as both a pedestrian and casual biker that many drivers are not stopping at stop signs and too many are speeding. I worry for myself, but even more so for the children who use this street.

It would also help if someone in the city would enforce the trimming of trees and bushes along the street, particularly at corners and driveways. This includes the downtown corners where bushes have grown so high in some places that drivers roll past the crosswalks so they can see what's coming.

We should get those ground flashing lights like you see near the railroad tracks next to the library.

The hedge trimming is a good start. I think that there should be three car lengths of any curb CLEAR.

Trimming of bushes and trees would help the overall situation a lot, but flashing crosswalks would do nothing to protect us from two of the three drivers I encountered yesterday. One rolled right through the stop sign, gabbing merrily on her cell, the other stopped but was so impatient (even though I'm a fast walker) that she started moving forward again while I was still in front of her car. The third incident might have been a result of the driver struggling to see past the bushes on the left and forgetting to looking to the right before moving completely into the crosswalk. All three times I felt threatened.

These aren't the first encounters I've had with drivers carelessly moving through crosswalks and/or running stop signs downtown, but three times in the course of half an hour was certainly a record. It really is time for the police department to put traffic cops downtown on a regular basis to ticket the stop sign jumpers and those who can't be bothered to let pedestrians cross in crosswalks. And, the city needs to get busy with the clippers to improve visibility at intersections.