Sarah Deals safely crosses Glacier Highway near Walmart on Wednesday with her five children. The Department of Transportation & Public Facilities installed a High-Intensity Activated Crosswalk (HAWK) pedestrian beacon to help in the high-traffic area. The beacon is the second such one in Juneau and the $200,000 project was made a priority during a recent meeting between DOT&PF, the City and Borough of Juneau, the Juneau Police Department and Central Council Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska.
Michael Penn/Juneau Empire
Sarah Deals safely crosses Glacier Highway near Walmart on Wednesday with her five children. The Department of Transportation & Public Facilities installed a High-Intensity Activated Crosswalk (HAWK) pedestrian beacon to help in the high-traffic area. The beacon is the second such one in Juneau and the $200,000 project was made a priority during a recent meeting between DOT&PF, the City and Borough of Juneau, the Juneau Police Department and Central Council Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska.
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It was a priority long before they decided it was a priority. That should have been installed ages ago. Thankfully it is done!
Finally!
Great to see this is in and functioning! Please pay attention to pedestrians, no matter where you are driving. Put down the phone and focus on the road!
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Really?
So, they put in a traffic light to replace the one they removed a few years ago?
Also how does one get "HAWK" out of High-Intensity Activated Crosswalk?
High intensity Activated crossWalK. That's how.
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I'm glad
...that they went this route, and not the silly road-embedded flashing lights like the ones by the Douglas Breeze-In. Those are completely worthless.
wow
Yes, this should have been accomplished a long long time ago. There should also be a crosswalk on the road that leads up the DHMS. The cynical part of me suspects that if this was a more affluent neighborhood, this would have been done years ago.
unfortunately.....
I have already seen people crossing just a few yards away from the crosswalk, not using the new light. Hopefully children and adults alike will not be lazy and take a few extra steps to safely use the crosswalk. Parents are hopefully educating their children about using it.