The Phoenix City Council is set on Wednesday to weigh spending millions of dollars to build pedestrian crossings in high traffic areas.
Leaders are also scheduled to consider getting more strict with pedestrians who don’t use marked crossings.
Right now a first offense for jaywalking in Phoenix draws just a warning. But it could be replaced with a citation if the Phoenix City Council approves.
Also up for leaders to consider is a roughly $5.6 million investment for ten new pedestrian-activated crosswalks.
The Federal Highway Administration found that the same kind of crosswalks led to a 69% drop in pedestrian crashes in Tucson.
The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety recently found that Arizona pedestrians are nearly twice as likely to be killed in a road collision compared to the rest of the country.
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