Friday , March 29 2024

DRIVERS DEFY THE ZEBRA CROSSING- KASOA PEDESTRIANS CRY OUT

 

Pedestrian crossing or the Zebra Crossing is an area on a highway painted with broad white stripes.

The purpose of the Zebra crossing is for vehicles to stop for easy and safe crossing by pedestrians on a high way.

Drivers nationwide are educated and warned to stop for pedestrian(s) to cross whenever they see them in an attempt to cross the broad white stripes. But most drivers do otherwise all the time and this is causing more harm to citizens in the country.

This is an alarming issue since pedestrians have to wait so many minutes for almost all the cars to pass before they can cross.

Then again, other pedestrians who try to battle their way out on the road with these cars, get knocked down and even sometimes get killed due to the speed and impatience of these drivers.

Pedestrians who use the zebra crossing just a stone throw to Pink FM on the Kasoa-Accra highway, are no strangers to the menace.

Speaking to some of these drivers on Pink News; they confessed “there are no traffic lights which makes it really difficult for us to stop when we get to the zebra crossing, and we are mostly on top speed along the Kasoa-Accra highway.”

Besides they categorically specified that more traffic lights should be installed instead of zebra crossings.

On the other hand, some pedestrians stated that, “the act of these drivers feeling reluctant to allow us cross to the other side of the road is very disturbing and frustrating.”

They are calling on the police and the traffic regulators to assist them cross the highway and if possible provide more traffic lights because the drivers mostly obey that than the pedestrian crossing.

 

By: Portia Doughan/pinkfmonlinegh.com

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