Holy shit. The Senate just unanimously passed a bill making daylight savings time permanent.

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157. I lived a block from the regional rail (commuter) train station

but the street that I had to use to get there was one-way, up a hill, and residential, so the lighting was minimal (and that was before the proliferation of the "yellowish-pinkish" sodium (technically "High Pressure Sodium) street lights. At the top of that hill was a narrow half-paved path that then lead to the actual station, which was about 1/2 a block down from the path entrance, and that was very poorly lit if at all because the path lights were barely or not really maintained by SEPTA.

And back then, they still had some "safeties" with the white sashes, that I guess could be considered "reflective" (I had been one when I was younger) to help the Crossing Guards -



But nowadays, so many school systems have all but eliminated Crossing Guards (usually retired women) and probably a tiny portion even bother with having "children" as "safeties", although I suppose if they did, they could use those yellow reflective vests.

And definitely agree about the "short cuts" because they are the very places that kids use that are minimally or completely unlit. We lived a couple blocks from an elementary school (I had gone to it for 1st - 3rd grades) and kids would cut across our next door neighbor's yard to get to their back driveway that lead up to the street where that same train station path entrance was, and would have been a shortcut to get to the school, which was literally several hundred feet away from the train station. The driveway itself was unlit or barely lit (only if someone had actually installed a spotlight on their detached garage).