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Sidewalks don't mean you're not allowed to walk on the street. Streets are for everyone, including cyclists and pedestrians.
by frosted-flakes 4y ago
Sidewalks don't mean you're not allowed to walk on the street. Streets are for everyone, including cyclists and pedestrians.
- shepherdjerred 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaywalking#United_States
- giraffe_lady 4y agoCould link to a lot of american perversions if you wanted to but that's a very narrow "we."
- philwelch 4y agoTFA is published by the US Department of Transportation.
- giraffe_lady 4y agoMy point was more that "things that americans do", "things that everyone does", and "things we should be doing" is a venn diagram with a very small center when it comes to car use.
- philwelch 4y agoWhen I used the word “we”, I was talking about the US. I don’t believe in a global “we”. You live in a country where pedestrians are allowed to walk out onto the same street where cars go, and I live in a country where they aren’t. And apparently, we are both happy with how our respective countries do things. And that’s fine; I’m happy that you’re happy with your country’s laws and customs and I wouldn’t want to impose my country’s laws and customs on anyone else.
- shepherdjerred 4y agoThere are plenty of other countries on that page with similar laws. > In Zimbabwe, jaywalking is illegal, as per the traffic laws gazetted in 2013 by the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Development. > In recent years, jaywalking has become more strictly controlled in China as car traffic increased. Police have tested facial recognition to identify jaywalkers. Italy: > Pedestrians are allowed to cross a street without any recognised crossing point only if there are no zebra crossings within a range of 100 m