GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP — The state Department of Transportation is interested in installing a mid-block crosswalk in front of the Smithville Inn on Route 9. “We are in the beginning stages of this.
The light that wasn’t working was supposed to illuminate a diamond-shaped crosswalk sign erected directly over the mid-block crosswalk, near East Burnside Street and 148th Avenue, the suit states.
Jaywalking — that time-honored practice of crossing the street outside of the crosswalk or against the ... that crossing against the light and mid-block is highly risky behavior.