Pedestrians

Now that I am such a frequent pedestrian, I gotta tell you how impressed with drivers in Farmington. They stop for you. They stop even before you step out into the street. Somehow, they see you on the sidewalk and anticipate that you're going to cross the street and they stop. It's very impressive. In the half mile stretch of High Street that goes through UMF campus there must be at least 5 pedestrian walks. But in the snow, you can't see the painted stripes on the road and often pedestrians cross where they want to and not where the pedestrian walk is painted. The same is true on the half mile stretch of Main Street that goes through campus and downtown Farmington. It's very impressive.

Now I only hope that when I'm a driver I can a) remember to keep a lookout for pedestrians, b) anticipate their crossing, and c) stop in time.