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Here’s how I read it: in pedestrian conflicts with cars, we tend to over-assign responsibility to the individual pedestrian (“they should have been more careful
by sonofhans 3y ago
Here’s how I read it: in pedestrian conflicts with cars, we tend to over-assign responsibility to the individual pedestrian (“they should have been more careful”) and under-weight larger-scale cultural issues, like building unwalkable suburbs.
- onlyrealcuzzo 3y agoA long time ago, we decided that the city is for cars, not people. It makes sense that it's the pedestrian's fault when the city is for the car, not the person. Until the thinking changes, nothing else will. It's working as intended.
- rickydroll 3y agoAlso, changing that will require major cultural and infrastructure changes. Cities need to be gutted and rebuilt to the urban ideal of walkable space. Socially, you will need to convince people to swap their 2000 sq ft on a 5000+ sq ft lot for a 1200 sq ft flat with no land, backyard, gardens, or privacy. Urbanites must accept that many of us truly detest cities and want to live semi-independently. Urban and non-urban people can't be genuinely independent of each other, but we need to respect each other's choices of how we want to live.
- onlyrealcuzzo 3y ago> Cities need to be gutted and rebuilt to the urban ideal of walkable space. That's not going to happen. They might be slowly reshaped over 50 years. There's a reason London never evolved to look like Los Angeles, and that's the same reason Houston is unlikely to ever resemble Paris.
- dukoid 3y agoThe intended outcome of so-called "road safety" campaigns, always addressing the victims instead of drivers