We're all just trying to cross the street in a world designed for cars. The universe doesn't care about your right-of-way, your feelings, or your carefully curated Spotify playlist. Sometimes, it just hurls a two-ton metal box at you. But hey, at least now there's a slightly better chance someone will see you coming. A groundbreaking ceremony was held today for a new pedestrian beacon on North Lamar Boulevard, near the location where Imam Islam Mossaad was killed last July. This isn't progress; it's damage control. It's a band-aid on a gaping wound. But in a city where infrastructure improvements move at the speed of continental drift, we'll take what we can get.