The situation is less clear at, for example, Eighth and Huron. If the sidewalk doesn’t extend to the edge of the road, I don’t know whether it’s a crosswalk or not, and I have never met anyone who could tell me despite many years of asking. I have even searched case law. I don’t think anyone knows.

I was considering this the other day as I stood at one on Depot Street and watched the traffic whiz by at full speed without, apparently, even considering whether I was about to cross.

If it’s not there in the real world, it’s a temporary thing, I suspect.

The term woonerf applies to a street or a district, not a single intersection.

Multi-lane roads also work less effectively in this way than single lane ones do. Think about the way that an intersection with traffic lights works when the power goes out. Those with single lanes tend to work more elegantly and efficiently than those with multiple lanes, left-turn lanes, and the like.

Of a kind, in one of the cities I work in, a councilmember explained that several residential neighborhoods have no stop signs (or yield, or anything) at the intersections, for similar reasons–no driver can assume the person on the cross-street is going to stop, so they both have to slow down to figure it out; a child on the sidewalk can’t look at a stop sign and assume that the oncoming car is going to stop, reinforcing the “look both ways” mandate. I didn’t have a chance to ask about the actual performance of this scheme, but it was the first time locally I’d run across a conscious application of this principle (albeit decades old).

Workantile is a community of independent and remote workers who for any number of reasons are tired of working in isolation in home offices, coffee shops, libraries, or wherever, and want other people around. There are, of course, a number of social and professional benefits to having others around. The space is designed to support that community. The people who join Workantile are members of the community, not people renting space. We deliberately stayed away from individual offices because people tend to isolate themselves in them and detach from the community. Members who do need a quiet space to work use the carpeted loft. The loft is still open, but quieter than the main space.

The open floor plan gives us a lot of flexibility in reconfiguring the space as needed. For example, every Thursday we have a social lunch. We push all the tables together, and people gather around and eat together. After lunch, the tables are separated back into individual work spaces.

Division Street at E Jefferson could really use a HAWK. I stopped there a couple days ago for a pedestrian and at least 20 cars went through the intersection in the other lane (including the 6 that were behind me).