How to cross a street

St. Paul picked an interesting week to unveil a PSA on how to cross a street. Downtown St. Paul — at least this afternoon — was generally abandoned because of the construction for the light rail project.


St. Paul picked an interesting week to unveil a PSA on how to cross a street. Downtown St. Paul — at least this afternoon — was generally abandoned because of the construction for the light rail project.

But few other cities need guidance on crossing a street (which is the pedestrian version of being shown how to buckle your seat belt on an airplane) more than downtown St. Paul, where pedestrians stroll as if they’re on Main Street USA at DisneyWorld.

Enforce laws against jaywalking? Sounds simple enough, but it didn’t go so well a week or so ago in Seattle: