Photo: Ped Xing

New crosswalk indicators, activated by a recently installed button on the crosswalk sign post, tells pedestrians that the lights on the post and on the school zone warning signs are flashing.

The idea to incorporate a push button crosswalk indicator at the crosswalk between the library and Lincoln School was first floated about three years ago by former librarian Kate Radford. Although the idea was a simple solution to a long-standing problem and was approved by the Montana Department of Transportation, delays and a backlog of work from the COVID Pandemic held the work up