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Making the pedestrians go the long way prioritises driving, which leads to more people driving, which leads to more traffic, fumes, etc. But most broken seems
by fire_lake 2y ago
Making the pedestrians go the long way prioritises driving, which leads to more people driving, which leads to more traffic, fumes, etc.
But most broken seems like a stretch!
- Gigachad 2y agoThe average person probably violates jaywalking laws multiple times a day. What other law do most people break constantly as just part of day to day life?
- defrost 2y agoAnti-miscegenation laws were a common place one for some time .. arguably some alive today are still a living crime. Trevor Noah titled a book Born a Crime in reference to his birth in South Africa, similar laws remained in force in many US states until 1967 which means a number of people walking about the US today have an existence that was a crime.
- vel0city 2y agoI imagine most Americans violate speeding and other vehicles moving laws far more often than jaywalking. I imagine the majority of Americans haven't actually crossed a street as a pedestrian in the last week. Why would they? They drive from their home to their job to the parking lot of the grocery store to the drive through pickup line at school for their kids. I'm one of the more transit/pedestrian/bike people in the group I routinely hang out with and I haven't actually crossed the street as a pedestrian in a few days.
- int_19h 2y agoEven if you always drive, parking in large cities is often limited enough that you have to walk a fair bit from where you can find a spot to where you actually need to go.
- vel0city 2y agoYou might overly be estimating your ideas of what is "urban". Tons of Americans never have to deal with crossing a street for their parking. They're not parking at some lot around the block and walking. It's all just a sea of pavement. City codes mandate each big box store has dozens of spots per shelf in the store. This on its face seems like a gross overstatement but looking at maps shows the truth of the seas of empty lots surrounding big box stores.
- int_19h 2y agoI live in an American town with <8k residents, so I know exactly what you mean. But many large cities don't have such city codes and have very limited parking as a result, even around large stores etc; especially not in downtown. Which, even if you don't live or work there, is still somewhere people sometimes have to go to for other reasons, from visiting a fancy restaurant to jury summons.