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It drives me insane the same way that tourists stopping in the middle of the sidewalk to look at a map does, or when people walk 4-people wide, stand on the lef
by jaxbot 9y ago
It drives me insane the same way that tourists stopping in the middle of the sidewalk to look at a map does, or when people walk 4-people wide, stand on the left of an escalator, queue up for a bus by blocking the sidewalk, or holding everyone up to 'just take a quick photo.'
It's really annoying, but I don't think you can just ad-hoc legislate it. We have tons of things that were made illegal in NYC and a tiny amount of the laws actually get enforced. As others have said, this can lead to laws only being enforced on people the police already want to harass, and everyone else doing it on a regular basis.
In addition, with our Vision Zero goals, there are so many other things to focus enforcement and government bandwidth on. Hundreds of people are still being killed by reckless drivers every year. If we can solve that, then we can focus on getting people to be less annoying when walking around.
- sheepdestroyer 9y agowow, or maybe people should not be expected to be always rushing in life? If you are busy to get to a workplace that do not allow coming late, tough on you, leave earlier. I'll keep enjoying life (and be a "tourist", even where I live) at my own pace, and stop to take a picture if I feel like it, thank you
- flukus 9y agoYou can walk slow and not be in peoples way. Walk to the side not the middle of the damn footpath for instance. If there's two (or more) of you walk single file OR pay attention and move to single file when someone wants to walk faster. Have some awareness and not stop suddenly when someone is right behind you. Just have some awareness in general.
- jaxbot 9y agoThe problem with stopping to take a picture is that thousands of people are walking on the sidewalks of these avenues, and people want to take a photo across the sidewalk (camera person by the street, subject by whatever shop/thing they want to pose with) and thus they try to stop everyone coming into frame. There are thousands of people trying to get places in this city, and it's not about leaving early/getting late -- people just have places to go and don't want to get stopped repeatedly. The scale of it is like stopping on the freeway to take a photo of a billboard. It holds everyone up because you put yourself above the people around you. It's rude.
- Zanni 9y agoIn my mind I have a secret blog called "Choke-point Assholes." Every time someone stops at the top of an escalator to double-check their gate information, or in front of an elevator immediately after getting out, or [rage-inducing list truncated], I snap a mental picture and post it to my secret blog.