Frogger: Fun as a game, not in real life

If you've ever played frogger, you understand the concept of a character weaving through traffic with hopes of avoiding being hit. This is the way I feel every time I cross 25th street, which runs directly south of campus. I take a step off the curb, and automatically the frogger theme music runs through my head. Like the frog in frogger, I maneuver through traffic, hoping not to get squished. However, unlike the frog in frogger, I do not have three lives. If a student gets hit, it's game over.
So how do we go about preventing what seems to be an inevitable tradegy in the making? It seems that lowering the speed limit through campus may make for a much safer environment for the students. At the present, the speed limit is set at 35 mph. I think that a reduction of 10 miles per hour would make a dramatic difference. When speed limits are lowered, a driver has a much better response time. It is much easier to make a sudden stop or react to a hazard when driving at lower speeds. If the speed limit was lowered to 25 around the campus area only, it would take a driver less than an extra 45 seconds to make it through the lower speed zone and it would be drastically less hazardous for both students walking and driving.