As most of the city is aware at this point, a 19 year old woman was struck at the 119 Street and Jasper Avenue intersection during dark hours the first week of July 2014. The crosswalk that she was using does not have flashing amber lights, let alone ambient white lighting, making it extremely difficult for drivers to detect crosswalk users at night. She was brought to emergency, suffering critical injuries, but thankfully she did not pass away, and will recover. Lets get real here and do something before someone does lose a life.

With that being said, taking a look at 'Street View' on 'Google Maps', there looks to be 9 or 10 marked crosswalks across the entire length of Jasper Avenue that are located at an area away from any traffic lights. This poses great danger to the pedestrians and drivers of this incredibly busy Avenue (Jasper).

This is a petition to start things off on the right foot, and make Edmonton a safer city for all of us. Call it a pilot program if you will, that we can begin with Jasper Avenue, and move forth from there. You can't put a price on someone's life - not even a single life - so lets get these 9 or 10 crosswalks that travel the distance of Jasper Avenue lit up once and for all. Please.

!! Four pedestrians have been killed so far in 2014. There were 311 pedestrian injuries caused by collisions in 2013 -- of those, six were fatal. ONE is too many.

Take notice to the video posted within this petition, showing just how dangerous distracted walking has become, let alone distracted driving. It's the responsibility of both parties to prevent an accident.

- Jody Mitoma; creator of Shoutout Edmonton.