It doesn’t matter how legal it is or not. If a driver is expected to stop because I’m crossing but doesn’t and I’m crippled or dead, that law means very little to me.
We should instead design crosswalks that are inherently safer. Ones that force drivers to slow down and look for pedestrains regardless of some flashing lights that may or may not work with a beg button.
Yup. Crosswalks and pedestrian bridges may not seem like it, but they are actually car infrastructure. They are designed to allow cars to be as unimpeded as possible.
Real pedestrian infrastructure looks like streets that make drivers uncomfortable to be driving on. Cars and people should not be mixing.
Quiet, peasant! This is a car-centric society! Not driving is a choice to not be a real person!
- Politicians, Developers, police
It’s worse our cities are so sprawled out its pathetic. Everyone always says look at Europe sure but look at their cities smaller area wise but with more people.
That’s because their zoning laws are different.
They allow building walkable neighborhoods with mixed-use buildings that have retail businesses on the ground floor and residential units on the 3-5 floors above. Their daily errands can easily be done by foot, so there is less traffic.
You can’t achieve that in a car-dependent suburb where you need to drive to get to the nearest grocery store, school or cafe.
In a lot of places you can legally cross the street at the corner regardless of whether there is a crosswalk and drivers are legally required to stop.
But yea if they don’t stop and you are dead you’re dying words can be, “I had the right of way, motherfuh- cough cough”
@burntbutterbiscuits @NarrativeBear I always told my kids, as they approached driving age, that the laws of physics trump the laws of man where cars are involved.
My first girlfriend’s dad use to always say “two objects can not occupy the same space at the same time” he was a science teacher lol
Bosons would like a word 🤼
I feel like the safest driver on the road in my '69 Boson GT.
Yep here in BC any crossroads is also considered an unmarked crosswalk for pedestrians. My wife and I were crossing like this, no traffic even, and a cop coming up the sidestreet rolled down his window and yelled there is a crosswalk down there pointing 2 blocks down the street. He was getting irritated we weren’t turning back to go use the marked walk. (Read your own lawbook dude.)
Yep here in BC any crossroads is also considered an unmarked crosswalk for pedestrians. My wife and I were crossing like this, no traffic even, and a cop coming up the sidestreet rolled down his window and yelled there is a crosswalk down there pointing 2 blocks down the street. He was getting irritated we weren’t turning back to go use the marked walk. (Read your own lawbook dude.)
Yep here in BC any crossroads is also considered an unmarked crosswalk for pedestrians. My wife and I were crossing like this, no traffic even, and a cop coming up the sidestreet rolled down his window and yelled there is a crosswalk down there pointing 2 blocks down the street. He was getting irritated we weren’t turning back to go use the marked walk. (Read your own lawbook dude.)
If you’re in Surrey, red lights and stop signs are “suggestive”.
