City’s First Pedestrian Activated Stoplight Coming To Deadly Edgewater Intersection This Fall
A new pedestrian-activated stoplight will be installed this fall at a busy five-way intersection on Ridge Avenue. The intersection was the site of a fatal accident in 2021.
The new stoplight that can be triggered by waiting pedestrians is coming to a busy five-way intersection on Ridge Avenue where a person was killed in 2021.
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