Plans are in the works to continue improvement to lighting and cross walks on campus to ensure student safety.

Other improvements to pedestrian safety on campus include repainting several cross walks, stricter police enforcement of road rules in the area and a new three-way stop sign at the corner of Seventh Street and Roosevelt Avenue set to be erected in the spring.

Bill Davidson, chair of the Student Senate’s University Development and Recycling Committee, Charleston Mayor Dan Cougill and Gary Reed, Physical Plant director, recently drove around town to identify problem areas on campus.

Since then lights that were previously off have been turned on and there are plans to repaint some cross walks this summer.

Campus lights in the South Quad and along Fourth Street were not working because of the Booth Library construction and digging in the South Quad, Davidson said. Five or six lights still remain to be fixed, but most of them are back on.

When those improvements are done, further assessment will determine if there is a need for additional lights to be added, Davidson said.

The intersection at Seventh Street and Roosevelt Avenue will receive a three-way stop sign because it is not well lit and it is difficult to cross the street to get to University Court, Davidson said.

A number of city lights have contributed to the problem, Cougill said Monday. A city staff member drives around to check the lights, but other than that the city is not always aware if a light goes out.

Students can call City Hall if a light goes out, and a message will be sent to the electric company to fix the light, Cougill said.

If a light goes out on campus, students should notify the Physical Plant, Davidson said.

Also on the agenda of safety improvements is a new crosswalk on Ninth Street to connect Carman Hall and University Court, Davidson said, though the exact site of the crosswalk is yet to be determined.

Several crosswalks will be repainted with crosshatches so they are more visible, Cougill said.

These crosswalks include the one from Taylor Hall to the W Lot on Fourth Street and the one from Stevenson Hall to the Commemorative Courtyard where the flashing light is on Fourth Street.

Changes will also take place in enforcing crosswalks, Davidson said. If there is a pedestrian in a crosswalk, motorists have to stop, or be ticketed, he said.