Winnipeggers living near the intersection where a writer was fatally hit by a car last week gathered Friday to call for safer streets.

Several dozen people showed up to a candlelight vigil on Roslyn Road and Osborne Street Friday night in honour of Rosalie Tennison and other pedestrians killed by motorists in the city.

A car travelling west on Roslyn struck Tennison, 67, as she was crossing the street last Friday afternoon. She died in hospital Saturday.

Dolores Tjart said she met the author after moving to Osborne Village three years ago, and they soon became close friends.

"She wanted to live in an area where she could walk and go to things where she didn't have to drive," Tjart said. "She just wanted to be part of a neighbourhood."

Tennison was an agriculture journalist and the a

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