Commuting across New York State sees a variety of ways of people getting to and from their destinations. While many are driving there are others who take bikes, scooters, or even walk to get to work or school. What I’ve found since walking around the City of Albany is that many drivers are not considering the safety of walkers.
Here’s my story
I walk several times a day around my Albany neighborhood. Now, for the most part I would consider this a very safe thing to do. I take my kids around here and there haven’t been too many issues, but recently I have found that many drivers are not obeying the pedestrian right of way. My walks take me across New Scotland Ave and South Manning and those are busy streets. There are usually people waiting to cross at those points especially with St. Peter’s Hospital being right there.
As I was waiting for the walk sign to tell me it was safe to cross there was decent traffic over the weekend. Once it gave me the go-ahead to cross I started to go and was almost hit by someone taking a right. Then I was almost his again when someone taking a left accelerated to try and blow past me…