Austin-Travis County EMS says the 'vast majority' of crashes they're responding to are happening at intersections with no traffic lights. It's even worse at night, an EMS spokesperson said.
Austin doesn't know how many traffic signals aren't working, because half of them have stopped communicating with the city's traffic monitoring center.
"I just took a chance on it," laughed Daniel Jones, who ran across a busy pedestrian crossing at South First Street and Stassney Lane on Friday afternoon."It looks like everybody's looking out for everybody, though."They often don't. Austin-Travis County EMS says the"vast majority" of crashes they're responding to are happening at intersections with no traffic lights. It's even worse at night, an EMS spokesperson said.
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