VERY LOCAL APP. WE’LL SEE YOU BACK HERE AT SIX. THIS IS A 12 EDITORIAL WITH PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER JAN WADE DRIVE DOWN BRADY STREET MAY SOON BECOME A THING OF THE PAST DUE TO A SERIES OF TRAGIC EVENTS, INCLUDING HIT AND RUNS. AS WE ALL KNOW THAT BRADY STREET HAS A VIBRANT NIGHTLIFE, BUT IT’S ALSO A POPULAR PLACE FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES WALKING AND JOGGING ON SCOOTERS AND BIKES, PUSHING STROLLERS OR WALKING DOGS. BUT FOR THOSE WHO LIVE AND WORK, THERE, THE STREET HAS BECOME UNSAFE AND THE DRIVERS MORE RECKLESS. THIS PAST SUMMER, THE BRADY STREET BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT RELEASED A HIGHLY ANTICIPATED SAFETY STUDY THAT LOOKED INTO THE CRASH HISTORY OF BRADY STREET OVER A SIX YEAR PERIOD. IT SHOWED A NUMBER OF CRASHES, INCLUDING 14, WHICH INVOLVED A PEDESTRIAN OR CYCLIST. WHILE THOSE AREN’T THE MOST COMMON CRASHES, THEY ARE THE MOST CONCERNING. SADLY, OVER THIS PAST YEAR ALONE, TWO MORE PEDESTRIANS AND A CYCLIST WERE KILLED ON BRADY STREET AND MOST RECENTLY TWO OTHERS WERE SEVERELY INJURED IN HIT AND RUNS THAT RESULTED IN NEIGHBORS DEMANDING SAFER STREETS AND RIGHTLY SO, SINCE RECKLESS DRIVING THERE HAS GOTTEN WORSE. THE BRADY STREET STUDY ALSO LOOKED AT WAYS TO PEDESTRIANIZE THE STREET TO MAKE IT SAFER. OF THE FOUR OPTIONS, TWO WOULD SLOW IT DOWN, BUT STILL ALLOW PRIVATE CARS AND BUSSES. THE OTHER TWO OPTIONS WOULD ELIMINATE CARS, NARROW THE ROADWAY AND BECOME PEOPLE ONLY FOR SEVERAL BLOCKS, BUT STILL ALLOWING ACCESS TO TRANSIT NO MATTER WHEN A DECISION IS MADE. KEEPING THE CARS AND PEDESTRIANS APART SEEMS TO BE THE RIGHT CALL. BRADY STREET IS SUCH A SPECIAL PART OF THE CITY AND PEOPLE WHO GO THERE TO HAVE FUN DESERVE TO BE SAFE. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. IF THE RECKLESS DRIVERS CAN’T BE STOPPED DRIVING DOWN THAT STREET SHOULD BE. I’M JA