Jaywalking is one of the few activities that will make Danes break character and actually recognise a stranger. As a Boston-native who moved to Copenhagen for t

Jaywalking is one of the few activities that will make Danes break character and actually recognise a stranger. As a Boston-native who moved to Copenhagen for three years, seeing people waiting at crosswalks for a signal was a shock, and in the first few months I was certainly scolded a few times for jaywalking. The book Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) has a very interesting chapter on jaywalking statistics and a variety of other traffic phenomena, and I would certainly recommend it to anyone curious about how cultural norms regarding transit are informed by legislation and infrastructure.