Last month I wrote about Arianne, the six year old Ladner girl that had difficulty crossing Central Avenue with her siblings and her grandmother. A vehicle driver had rushed around the corner nearly hitting the children. Arianne wrote to Delta City Council telling them that a crosswalk was needed to the stores and to the park, and how hard it was to see around the corner. She finished the letter by reminding Council that she was “six years old”.
Arianne also sent in a splendid illustration of the corner where the incident happened. She drew a very nice spider on her letter, and created her own petition. She then got thirty signatures for her petition. All during the pandemic.
The one person you never want to disappoint and i would also argue disagree with is a six year old who has done their homework, evaluated the problem, and proposed the solution.
Thankfully as Sandor Gyarmati writes in The Optimist Delta Council at their December 9th meeting has agreed to add a crosswalk improvement at this intersection with “overhead illuminated signs with overhead and side mounted flashing beacons, new pushbuttons, replacement and addition of LED street lights and pavement markings.”
The work is scheduled for next year, and you can be sure Arianne will be making drawings of the improvement, and monitoring it to ensure it works efficiently and correctly.
Images:DeltaOptimist
