Street safety initiative targets pedestrians
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student government”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article covers the launch of a pedestrian-safety campaign and the accidents that continued around campus.
- The News-Letter reported that the University’s Office of Communications and the Student Government Association launched the Road Scholar campaign on Aug. 31, using 3,000 yellow shoes and white shoes to represent Maryland traffic injuries and deaths.
- The paper reported that the University’s safety plan combines education, enforcement and engineering, including police tickets, changed crossing signals, new signs and additional crosswalks.
- The article says the campaign followed three student-involved accidents, including the bus collision that injured Hillary Walsh and the fatal injuries to Nathan Krasnopler and Miriam Frankl.
- The reporter writes that accidents continued, including a Sept. 5 collision involving a visiting student, while student behavior such as crossing between cars and using phones had not changed.
- According to the article, Dennis O’Shea said the campaign would need repeated, changing messages, while graduate student Sidra Hafeez said the shoes drew attention but might not connect people to the issue.