Crosswalk Near School to Get Traffic Signal
A Sepulveda crosswalk where four schoolchildren have been hit by cars since September will soon get a traffic light after more than a decade of complaints from parents and a recent nudge from Mayor Tom Bradley.
The city Department of Transportation said Tuesday that it will install a traffic light in front of Sepulveda Junior High School as soon as possible. The announcement came three weeks after a 12-year-old boy was struck and suffered a broken leg. Engineers had studied the crosswalk last fall and ruled that no signal was needed. But within days of the most recent accident, Bradley sent a pointed memo ordering that something be done to protect students.
Although the project will start immediately, the light is not expected to be in place until November because of design and engineering concerns.
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