Crosswalks around campus may soon undergo major improvements. 
Student Government passed a resolution at their Oct. 1 meeting calling to install lighted crosswalks around campus.  
SG Senator Seth Madden, the bill’s sponsor, said he wants to work with Parking and Transportation Services on getting the crosswalks               installed one at a time. 
“I’d really like to work with them, getting them done one by one,” Madden said. “I think that’d be a better way to do things.”
Madden said some early options for lighted crosswalk locations include the crosswalk leading from the Indian Mounds to the Business Residential College and Pentagon and one of the crosswalks leading to the UREC and sorority row from Miller Hall. He said they are also looking into one behind the Union Square Parking Garage going to the East Campus Apartments.
However, some current students may not see the proposed lighted crosswalks.
“It’s something that we’d like to see implemented by the end of the year, at least,” Madden said. “Not necessarily like a full scale system, but at least one or two or three here or there.”  
Another proposed feature would cause lights to flash along the crosswalk as a pedestrian is crossing at the push of a button. Madden said they are looking into an audio feature for the visually impaired. 
LSUPD spokesman Capt.Cory Lalonde said it’s safer when the driver’s and pedestrian’s attention is drawn to the crosswalk’s location.         
“We always try to remind people that even though we have the easy streets, and it limits the amount of vehicular traffic on the interior of campus, it doesn’t eliminate it,” Lalonde said. “You have less amount of traffic on the interior of campus, but that doesn’t mean that it is a pedestrian campus — it’s a pedestrian-friendly campus.” 
Lalonde said LSUPD tends to see spikes in traffic accidents involving pedestrians from time to time.
“I think over the last year to year and a half, I think we have seen less of those types of incidents.” Lalonde said. 
Students said the crosswalks will be a good improvement to campus.                              
Brit Willie, sociology senior, said the lighted crosswalks can’t be a bad idea.
“I’d feel a lot better if I’m walking late here at night,” Willie said. “It’d make other people feel safer, too.”