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This report indicates that in the past decade, 30 have been killed and nearly 250 injured in pedestrian accidents on Buford Highway. This is my neighborhood, and people are dying for a lack of concrete and white paint.

In 2007 they added four pedestrian crossing lights on the northern end of Buford Highway, and claimed similar improvements would be coming to my neighborhood by 2010. In those three years, statistically, 9 people would be killed and nearly 75 injured on Buford Highway.

Now, in 2010, they say construction will happen in 2012. Another six dead, nearly 50 injured.

Maybe if they wait long enough, people will just stop living here because its become so dangerous, and they won’t have to do anything at all. Or they can go back to writing jaywalking tickets to people who are a half mile away from the nearest crossing signal, and perhaps hundreds of yards away from anything resembling a modern sidewalk.

But after watching nothing be done about an obvious problem for a decade, one can’t help but think that county and state government simply don’t care that the working class poor living on Buford Highway (largely Hispanic or African American) are at risk in their daily lives, just trying to get to work. It’s just not a priority, at all.