While it's not the change for which some had hoped, some upgrades to pedestrian safety will be made along Old Mars-Crider Road in Seven Fields.

Along the stretch of that road from Hillmont Drive to Seven Fields Boulevard, sidewalks will be either improved or installed, and signs placed to inform drivers both that pedestrians will be crossing and that the speed limit will be lower. Lines will also be painted to delineate lanes of travel as 10 feet wide.

Double-yellow lines will be painted in the middle of the road, and single-white lines will mark the edge of the lanes of travel on both sides of Old Mars-Crider Road along that stretch. Additionally, just east of the junction with Seven Fields Boulevard, a sign will be erected informing drivers the speed limit decreases to 25 miles per hour.

The existing crosswalk just west of the intersection with Sycamore Drive will be changed from two white lines painted roughly 8 feet apart, to the piano key- or zebra stripe-style crossing more in use.

Another zebra crossing will be installed on the west side of the intersection of Old Mars-Crider Road and Graywick Drive.

On either side of the two crossings, 250 feet away from the crosswalks, will be signs warning drivers of the pedestrian crossing ahead, and another sign will be present at the two crossings with an arrow to the crosswalk.

In the middle of the zebra stripes will be a sign reminding motorists of the state law requiring that drivers yield to pedestrians in crosswalks.

Seven Fields Borough manager Tom Smith said the volume of traffic on that road prevents the borough from erecting stop signs, which, he said, some have asked for as a traffic-calming measure.