My digital DJ reports yet another personal injury accident at a street corner in I. Falls and I chime in one more time and ask a simple question: WHY NO YIELD SIGNS?
Some time ago, I wrote this on the blog: "Falls intersections are scary, especially for people [like my son] who didn't grow up knowing, for instance, that many of the avenues are de facto through streets and that streets that cross them, despite the lack of yield signs, are outside normal right of way practices.

I commute to work in a four-lane truck-filled expressway where normal speeds are 65-70 mph, but I usually feel safer there than driving across IFalls on eighth or ninth streets. Of course, I'd give up the 30 minute commute in a heartbeat."

I did for the summer and had one very close call at the spot near Super One where 13th Avenue ends. There should be a yield or stop sign at the end of 13th Avenue so that people coming off the highway don't t-bone them. There should be yield signs for many of the avenues crossing 10th Street. About forty years after Jimmy Rogers lost his life at a quiet intersection a block away from Backus, why are people still running into each other at the intersections of International Falls? How much would it cost to do an analysis of the dangerous corners and plant some stop and/or yield signs.

I just got off 694 at 35 W. and can say, again, that I am never as close to disaster on the 70 mph freeways down here as I am driving to Super One. Just doesn't make sense to me that people are still running into each other on 30 mph streets of International Falls.