Yet another puzzling thing about LargeU that I will never understand (but love): if you jaywalk, you will get a ticket. If you and all your friends jaywalk repeatedly in the same location, "they" will simply paint a new crosswalk.
Over the last few months, random crosswalks have appeared all over LargeU campus, at seemingly random, non-intersection locations. While I'm happy to not be at a ticket risk when dashing between buildings, it does pose a bit of a hazard. LargeU is not a closed campus; in fact, most of the campus is criss-crossed by heavily traveled roads, requiring LargeU undergrads to jump in front of traffic to get to their physics lab.
But...did you know that the crosswalks are more than just bars of paint on the road? No, they are so much more than paint. LargeU crosswalks are actually magic bubbles that protect one from an approaching vehicle. Well, at least that's what you would think if you drove through campus, what with all the undergrads running through crosswalks without pausing....and don't get me started on the bikes.
So these new crosswalks are actually more of a hazard than a help because drivers aren't aware of them (indeed, there are no "yield to pedestrian" signs or other marks, making the white lines extremely hard to see at night), yet undergrads just assume that cars and buses will stop.
At TinyCollege, there was no pedestrian problem because the campus was closed to through traffic. I know it's impractical to shut down all LargeU roads, but surely there is a better solution than just playing "miss-the-undergrad" every time I drive to campus?
