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> becomes congested with no time/space gaps between vehicles, is worse for pedestrians Why? This feels like it's assuming pedestrians share the street with veh
by embedding-shape 18d ago
> becomes congested with no time/space gaps between vehicles, is worse for pedestrians
Why? This feels like it's assuming pedestrians share the street with vehicles, but besides the US and some other places, don't most "modern" countries have separate pavements/streets for pedestrians? Besides in the country-side, vehicles and pedestrians don't generally share the road in populated areas here in Spain. For crossing roads outside cities, building a pedestrian tunnel below or a bridge above seems to preferred here, except in the cases where it isn't possible, and in cities obviously.
- ubercore 18d agoIn my city in Norway, at least, there is never a traffic pattern where it's not either: * a small roundabout with really clear pedestrian right of way marked * a pedestrian path that takes you over or under the road instead of crossing it It's great!
- cucumber3732842 18d ago[flagged]
- embedding-shape 18d agoRight, you're talking about "traffic participant", are you including pedestrians or not? Because as I said, in many places, "vehicles" and "pedestrians" are well-separated and don't impact/affect each other, so not sure what cluster-fuck could be created there. Seems less of a cluster-fuck than relying on cross-walks and stop-lights?
- cucumber3732842 18d ago[flagged]
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- Tangurena2 18d agoThere used to be an epidemic of cars striking and killing pedestrians. The advertising industry (hired by the auto industry) came up with the new imaginary crime called "jaywalking". This diverted attention from the killers and onto the victims. Just one more version of the victim blaming that derives from the Just World Hypothesis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_fallacy