Linda Julien keeps a count in her head. The walk light at the intersection of Aurora Avenue and North 130th Street lasts 30 seconds. Right now Julien can make it across in 28. The 74-year-old learned how to use the timer on her cell phone to confirm this.
“I have a few years left before I can’t make it,” she says. Some of her neighbors at Bitter Lake Manor senior housing aren’t fast enough. “People with wheelchairs in particular.”
The retired bookkeeper crosses Aurora on foot to catch the RapidRide E Line bus or to shop at the Asian Family Market or PetSmart. Julien doesn’t
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