It's a pre-Harvest Homecoming miracle: Pedestrian crossing buttons at Spring & Pearl repaired after 6 (8?) (10?) months.

Well at least the buttons on the northeast and southeast corners have been replaced. I didn't cross the street to examine the ones on the west side. But a win's a win.

You know, maybe we've been looking at Harvest Homecoming all wrong these many years. After all, just before the festival kicks off each year, there is a crazed flurry of cleaning and repairs. I actually saw a four-man city crew on Market Street today, and only TWO of them were sitting.

If Harvest Homecoming ran all year long, might we actually have functional infrastructure?

Previously at NAC:

August 10, 2016

#GahanSafe: All the push-button "walk" signals for crossing Spring at Pearl are defective, and have been for five months to a year.

March 28, 2016

Why does Team Gahan always pee on pedestrians?

March 12, 2016

Team Gahan's walkability gap (4 of many): "We’re all apparently okay with dead pedestrians as collateral damage for ensuring cars can travel quickly."

March 12, 2016

Team Gahan's walkability gap (3 of 3): "A Playbook on the Politics of Better Streets." WE NEED IT.

March 12, 2016

Team Gahan's walkability gap (2 of 3): "Is your city pedestrian unfriendly"? YEP.

March 12, 2016

Team Gahan's walkability gap (1 of 3): "If you want to make a walkable city, you need to do the little things well." WE DON'T.

February 7, 2016

Dear Jeff: "When Drivers Hit Pedestrians, Where Do We Lay the Moral Blame?"

September 2, 2015

We cannot know if the push-button crosswalk buttons work when so many of them are broken.