This is another one from my recent exploration of new sidewalks in the construction area on East Kalamazoo Street. These are going to start getting more interesting, I promise. (More interesting to anyone sufficiently interested in sidewalks and the east side of Lansing, anyway.) This one is at the southeast corner of Kalamazoo and South Howard Street, in front of the Amoco station.

What’s notable about this bit of pavement is that there didn’t used to be any sidewalk here. Past the gas station parking lot on Kalamazoo, there was just a bit of grass ending in a blind curb, and likewise on the other side of Howard. Strangely, despite being so hostile to pedestrians, there is a crosswalk signal here to allow crossing Howard. (I can’t recommend it. There’s no marked crosswalk and usually a lot of traffic turning onto Howard, which becomes a feeder lane for 127/496.) The newly-laid walk is a new curb cut, leading pedestrians across Howard. It remains to be seen whether they will do anything else to make this corner a bit more inviting to cross on foot.