Safety Fork, the

For the last two months, I’ve been walking to work three or four days a week. Every such day, four or five drivers make right turns in front of me, without stopping, not only after their signals are red, but also after my walk signal is lit.

I’m particularly incensed by such behavior because the signals in Eden Prairie are noticeably hostile to pedestrians. Of the six streets I cross in a typical day, one has a broken button (and so never changes its pedestrian signal), three always make me wait until the beginning of the next cycle (I’m made to wait even if I’m so tardy as to press the button while the cross-street light is yellow), and two will signal for walking only if the parallel street will have a green signal for at least another thirty seconds—about three times longer than it takes me to cross.

So I’d appreciate it if drivers would have the courtesy to yield. I’m considering two remedies (for my irritation, at least):

1. Note the license plates of all the offensive drivers, and list them on the internet. No utility, really, other than catharsis.
2. Carry one of those really annoying air horns.