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> I commute on foot in Boston and I regularly witness pedestrians cross streets in front of traffic when they know they can get away with it, for example, when
by warfangle 11y ago
> I commute on foot in Boston and I regularly witness pedestrians cross streets in front of traffic when they know they can get away with it, for example, when they're part of a crowd of pedestrians or the traffic is moving slowly. Every time I see that I wonder how much worse it'll be when they don't have to worry about being hit. Our sidewalks are narrow and crowded, will pedestrians just move to the streets?
Once upon a time, streets were for people. And then the automotive industry coined the term jaywalking...
- edvinbesic 11y agoAdam does ruin everything.
- shostack 11y agoFor anyone interested in this, 99% Invisible did a great episode on this[1]. [1] http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-76-the-modern-moloch/ http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-76-the-modern-...
- Crito 11y agoOnce upon a time, people shit in bowls and threw it out their windows. Pedestrians taking roads from motor vehicles is a modern example of the tragedy of the commons.
- hugh4 11y agoOnce upon a time I never heard this silly idea that the idea that you shouldn't blunder out into the street is a conspiracy by automakers. Then it was an article on HN and now I hear it all the time. Separating pedestrians from vehicles just makes sense. Streets before 1900 still had sections for horses and sections for people. And you didn't need to tell people not to stroll down the horsey sections, they were covered in horseshit.
- mjmahone17 11y agoReally? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RF9wV-57dE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RF9wV-57dE Doesn't look like Market Street in SF did (admittedly, 1906, not before 1900. But pretty close).
- hugh4 11y agoI'm not sure what you're looking at, but there's clearly kerbs with pedestrians and trams/horses/cars in the middle. Skip to 1:46 and you can see it easily on the right hand side of the frame (too much darn traffic most of the time).