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That's one point of view, if you're a goodie two shoes who automatically follows and agrees with every law and rule you ever heard of, even if it violates your

That's one point of view, if you're a goodie two shoes who automatically follows and agrees with every law and rule you ever heard of, even if it violates your own basic ethical values. Another point of view is that the state of arizona intentionally hates pedestrians and gratuitously creates roads that put their lives at risk when all they're trying to do is get home from the grocery store or whatever, a perfectly reasonable thing we oughtta all have the right to do without having to walk an extra mile out of our way or whatever. In NYC, which is actually a reasonable jurisdiction in the USA, that dumb fuck Giuliani tried to enforce anti jay walking laws one time in the '90s. You know what happened? NYPD cops went on the record telling the NY Times they planned to intentionally leave their ticket books in their precinct lockers so they had no way of writing such idiotic tickets. Police nullification, you could call it. Guliani immediately backed down and no one in recent memory has tried to do that again in downstate NYS.

sokoloff 9y ago
Another point of view is that the traffic department realized that this was perhaps an unreasonably dangerous place for pedestrians to cross and posted a sign to that effect, in hopes of protecting pedestrians who might incorrectly judge/perceive the danger.
- jcranmer 9y ago
  Pretty much every serious attempt at protecting pedestrians requires building refuges (which already exists) and devising ways to get drivers to actually slow down (as opposed to slapping a lower speed limit sign and hoping they'll do so). If you want to truly dissuade pedestrians from crossing, you need to erect a median barrier. Merely putting up a sign sounds a lot more like the traffic department dealing with drivers' complaints of annoying jaywalkers in the least effort way possible.

sokoloff 9y ago

Another point of view is that the traffic department realized that this was perhaps an unreasonably dangerous place for pedestrians to cross and posted a sign to that effect, in hopes of protecting pedestrians who might incorrectly judge/perceive the danger.

jcranmer 9y ago
Pretty much every serious attempt at protecting pedestrians requires building refuges (which already exists) and devising ways to get drivers to actually slow down (as opposed to slapping a lower speed limit sign and hoping they'll do so). If you want to truly dissuade pedestrians from crossing, you need to erect a median barrier. Merely putting up a sign sounds a lot more like the traffic department dealing with drivers' complaints of annoying jaywalkers in the least effort way possible.