police

i saw the funniest thing on the way to class this morning. there was a cop on campus standing at the corner of speedway and 24th street trying to direct traffic, mostly pedestrian traffic. she kept telling people to get on the sidewalk and cross the street in the crosswalk. i wanted to stop and say to her 'lady, do you have any idea what you're trying to do? just look at the number of people walking through this intersection and then look at the size of the sidewalk.' there is clearly not enough space to handle the volume of pedestrian traffic that goes through that intersection on a given school day. it would be much easier to close off the roads to cars and let people walk/bike/etc. i almost felt sympathy for the cop, but then i didn't...because the whole effort was just silly.