Architectural Stupidity: Crosswalk to Nowhere

This "crosswalk to nowhere" is the kind of stuff that drives Tom crazy as an architect. 
Tom tries to get these things corrected, but sometimes people still go through with them, as stupid as they are.
  - Tom had no involvement with this project, and it was posted on someone else's blog, who wrote the following:
Look at this crosswalk in Reading, Pennsylvania (North 5th Street Highway and South Temple Boulevard). Now just imagine the engineering effort that went into its design, with all the components – the retaining wall, the fence, the berm, the drainage, the street striping, the handicapped grading, the textured paving blocks.... Now imagine the politiical process – the design review, the code enforcement review, the DOT sign-off, the planning and zoning board approval.