Delray Beach Tri-Rail Amtrak Station – pictures!
So yeah, I’ve been bringing a camera with me as I walk from the station to Congress Ave lately. I’ve taken some decent shots of traffic coming in and out of the deadly little road where an angry little Haitian pretended like he was going to run me over the other day.
As I said before, there are no sidewalks and no crosswalks at all on this road, or the intersection at its head, and Congress Blvd. itself has sidewalks and no crosswalks except for at major intersections miles apart. This road was not built for foot or bike traffic. Which may seem odd, seeing that it leads to and from a public train, bus stop and taxi stop.
In these photos you’ll see what I see everyday. Big buses whipping around the corner from Congress Ave. Cars with drivers not paying attention to pedestrians because they are either looking for county offices, the train station, or are distracted by their digitalia. Cop cars on the way to the Sheriff’s Office that drive, like well, cops. I try to walk on the grass to avoid the traffic, but you can see from these shots we have a large tire tread indentation in the mud from a bus or truck that ran over the cement curbing, so I need to walk further up on the landscaping.
Do I really need to start driving 60 round-trip miles on the hell that is I95 to work in order to avoid getting hit on this tiny, unnamed road to the train station? Or should I walk the mile down the road to the crosswalk at Atlantic, and a mile back to my place of employment directly across from this road?
The curb where the road meets Congress, notice the tracks in the mud that ran over the curb? Notice the big bus? People walk here!
Close-up of vehicle tracks and oncoming car. I used to walk here to avoid the cars, but now since seeing this I walk way up on the mulch.
A bus coming down at ya....time to jump up on the nice county landscaping!
Both sides of the road. No sidewalks. Now imagine it filled with a giant puddle and some angry dope in a truck faking to run you down.
