USC will invest a cool $4 million directly into the safety of students by revamping crosswalks across Assembly Street. Our only question is, what took them so long?
Maybe the messenger got swept away while trying to trek across six lanes of traffic, never to be seen again. Regardless, we’re glad to see that the university has finally decided to address this considerable safety hazard to students. Upgrading three high-foot-traffic intersections in the name of student safety seems like a no-brainer to us. So while it took years for the university to recognize the need for something students have known about for years, this is also an investment in the future of campus life here at Carolina.
The Innovista project is progressing — albeit more slowly than green grass growing — which will push the epicenter of campus across Assembly Street. So we have no doubt that these upgraded crossways will get plenty of use in the not-too-distant future. Until then, poor journalism students making the hike to the Coliseum, inevitably with their Sherpa in tow, should have a safer passing across the great expanse that is Assembly Street.
But the real reason the university is spending the cash “in the name of safety,” is to pave the way to where all corners of the university shall meet in just a couple years — the doorsteps of the new, shiny Darla Moore School of Business. That’s right, it took what will surely be hailed as the shining beacon of the university — Darla’s new pantheon — for the university to free $4 million from their coffers in the name of student safety.
At least we think so. Maybe it’s actually the university worried about traffic problems from entrepreneurs dying to relocate into Innovista. Or hordes of international researchers flocking to see glorious steam from USC’s oh-so-successful biomass plant, located just a few blocks away.
Nah, it’s the business school.
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