LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — Two months after a 10-year-old boy was struck and killed crossing Charleston Boulevard near 28th Street, a new concern is emerging about what could be done next to address safety along the busy corridor.
While neighbors and advocates have been pushing for a crosswalk since March, a traffic safety expert said a different option may be under consideration by the Nevada Department of Transportation.
“The rumor mill says that NDOT wants to continue the fencing down Charleston,” Erin Breen, director of Ped Safe Vegas at UNLV’s Transportation Research Center, said. “This is an area where if you put up a fence, it says, ‘we give up.’”…