It is the law to stop for pedestrians

I am writing this to all of you who drive. I am a flagger and have been working on Harbour Pointe Boulevard. My question is: why don’t you stop for pedestrians at a crosswalk when workers and children are present trying to cross?

In the morning and after school is the worst. One day it took a worker about eight minutes to get across the street because the vehicles would not stop for the crosswalk. I know that the state and all the cities have regulations for that and it is for the safety of the public.

The crosswalk has lights on the ground to let the public know that there are workers or children trying to cross, but no, the vehicles keep going. One of these days someone is going to get hit, like I almost did. I was in the crosswalk and a car came so close to me, if I didn’t move, I would have gotten hit.

I told the driver that he is supposed to stop when people are in the crosswalk and he said that I should have waited for him to go through, even though the crosswalk lights were on. I told him he was in the wrong. He called me every name in the book. I took down his license plate number and called 911 to report him and to report all the vehicles that ran it.

We workers are not out there for our health, we are their to control the traffic and make sure that no one gets hurt and can go home to their families. As a mother I am very concerned about the crosswalk and I think the city engineers need to do something. I have a family and would like to see them at home when we are done working.

CINDY PRUDEN

Marysville