Pedestrian safety upgrades continue along Northeast 112th Avenue - The Columbian

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A new sidewalk installed along Northeast 112th Avenue in east Vancouver marks the latest step in improving safety along a notoriously dangerous road for pedestrians.

However, there’s still more work to be done, said Loretta Callahan, spokesperson for the Vancouver Public Works Department.

The new sidewalk along the east side of the north-south arterial stretches from Southeast Chkalov Drive to Northeast Ninth Street. Construction on the sidewalk wrapped up over the summer, on-schedule despite COVID-19 delaying other projects around the city, Callahan said. In all, the infrastructure upgrade cost just under $270,000.

“It was a grant-funded project to improve pedestrian safety,” Callahan said.

The half-mile stretch of fresh sidewalk is one of a few chunks of designated pedestrian walkways along 112th Avenue. Yet it stops nearly a mile south from where two teenage boys — Taylor Crepeau, 14, and Andrew Friedt, 17 — were struck and killed by a pickup truck while trying to cross the five-lane arterial in the early hours of Jan. 21.

According to a release from the Vancouver Police Department, the driver had reported he didn’t see the boys in time to stop. The intersection is illuminated by streetlights, but there’s no marked crosswalk or traffic signal. There weren’t — and still aren’t — sidewalks along the east side of the road where Crepeau and Friedt died.

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