A new high school has put the better part of a thousand young people on Topsail Road opposite a raft of fast food outlets and a major mall.
Young people will cross Topsail Road, a four–lane major thoroughfare in St. John’s. it is dangerous. Things will get more dangerous. City council is thinking about building a pedestrian walkway way over the street so pedestrians don’t have to cross at street level.
The pedway will be costly. Some people don’t like the cost and suggest that some other, far less expensive measures would do. Those people are wrong and here’s why.
