By LYNN HANRAHAN
Los Alamos

A nice Sunday afternoon walk in mid-January around North Mesa. Not much happening. Said hello to all the horses and goats at the stables. Sort of worried when I saw a young dad pulling a wagon with two toddlers down North Mesa Road but it wasn’t really any of my business.

Kept going past the Picnic Grounds toward the Roundabout – the final stretch back up the mesa home.  Got to the last little crosswalk segment and was on the cusp of crossing when a car going easily 60 or 70 maybe, appeared out of nowhere coming from the direction of the Golf Course and blew the crosswalk. I thanked my Guardian Angel as I flipped whoever it was off. I always tell my kids not to do that. I remind them that too many people are armed and dangerous.

I was not wearing headphones or earbuds. I was not daydreaming. I am a big fan of roundabouts. I am a cautious pedestrian but at the speed the car was going it was pointless. One of the kids – my runner – was home for a month over the holidays and was enraged by driver behavior at crosswalks. On a morning run once school resumed at the Middle School a motorist waved at her as he blew off the crosswalk while the school lights were flashing. This has happened to me, too, repeatedly. The wavers are the people you really want to hurl a brick at.

Please give pedestrians a break. Please restripe the North Mesa crosswalks Los Alamos County. We have had far too much carnage at or near our crosswalks over the past few decades.