After years of study and fatalities, UCF pedestrian safety project begins
University of Central Florida student Ben Briggs sometimes waits six minutes or longer to cross Alafaya Trail. Briggs, 21, majoring in emerging media, a degree blending art and technology, said he occasionally gets impatient on the opposite side of the high-volume, state road in an area where nine pedestrians have died in the past decade. “But I always make sure to just wait it out because of ...