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Alley should be closed to traffic

There is only five minutes left for class and you have to run from Davenport to the Barkley Building. Little do you know that as you are making the mad dash to class, there is a car racing out of the Oaks parking lot through the alley between the AAIC and Barkley buildings.

As you are about to cross the alley, the only thing that tells you this car is coming is the loud crash from the car driving over the sewer cover. If not for that cover, the car could have hit you.

This seems to be the problem that many students have when walking to and from the Oaks. Cars drive through the alley as if they were on the 210 Freeway rather than a college campus.

Of course the old rules of looking both ways before crossing the street apply when crossing the alley, but shouldn’t drivers also be looking both ways for oncoming foot traffic?

The sad fact is they do not look and they put the lives of pedestrians on the line. As long as drivers get to their destination in 10 minutes or less it is OK for them to go flying down alleys and small streets.

To avoid a fatal accident, the University of La Verne and the city need to work together to close off this alley to pedestrians only. The alley will have to be closed sooner or later because someone will end up getting seriously hurt, and possibly killed, and the last thing this University needs is another tragedy.

The only drawback to closing the alley to automobiles is that there would be no connection to the dorms from D Street. This means that drivers would have to go around to Second Street to get to the Oaks parking lot.

However, allowing only pedestrians to cross this alley would make it a safer trip to class. There would no longer be the threat of getting hit by a car going 25 mph in an alley.

The daunting voyage from Davenport to the Oaks will be a safe one.

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