Letter: Onus on drivers to spot pedestrians

Regarding Burt Nagamine’s suggestion that pedestrians wait behind a line two feet from the curb as a safety measure against right- turning cars (“Drivers, pedestrians need to look out,” Star-Advertiser, Letters, Feb. 16): Or, as Mayor Kirk Caldwell has suggested, we could ban right turns on red.

It does occur to me that no matter where one waits to cross the street, at some point a pedestrian will have to approach the curb to get across. In the meantime, the onus clearly is on the right-turning driver to stop and yield to pedestrians until they are safely across that alligator-filled minefield, no matter how frustrating the delay might be while trying to decipher their intent.

Nat Pak

Kaimuki

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