Consider looking at it this way – the greenbelt underpass is actually quite far away, adding say ~5 minutes to your walk, similar to the University crossing (a ridiculous 4-stage crossing). You can argue that 5 minutes here and there doesn’t matter since they’re walking anyway, but the same argument (minutes of delay!) is used to spend millions on road construction & widening, or to prevent stop bike lanes & pedestrian crossings from going in (if I remember, one of the arguments against the protected bike lane demonstration in 2014 was the additional seconds of delay).

This is the reason why people jaywalk – because we build bad pedestrian infrastructure or have points of bad connectivity, and people logically take shortcuts. Most of the time, the shortcut works, and occasionally, tragically, it doesn’t. All the education & enforcement in the world isn’t going to stop this, it never has (this applies to to auto traffic, as well). The Engineering needs to be better and more appropriately applied, especially in an already pedestrian heavy area. Perhaps an additional signal could be installed, at Sherwood, or Island, or both? The spacing there isn’t too different from the downtown block spacing, and that works well enough for everyone.

Speckled Hen, ACHD did want to put medians on Fairview, the business owners cried foul. Boise business owners think Boiseans are too lazy to go up a ways and make a u-turn.

EDITOR NOTE–We stopped by that “station” and coppers refused to talk. We were directed to a phone at the front door with a button to push for dispatch which would supposedly send a car to discuss jaywalking. That “station” is not really a station, but is funded by housing funds. About 400 yards across the street at Boise Ave and University is yet another “station” but that one is funded by BSU for campus police. Lots of cops, but little to no public access.