You might have forgotten over half of all people are idiots. Driver and pedestrian alike. No excuse for the driver not looking out being the liable one, but a lot of people walk right into shit because they’re either: not paying attention, think if something happens they can sue for money, or are frankly idiots.
I bike or walk everywhere I go, so I’m familiar with having to watch out for drivers. That being said, I think the person operating thousands of pounds of steel bears more responsibility than anyone just walking around. You’re controlling a machine capable of killing people, you should really pay attention to what you’re doing.
Tired of them pretending like that’s what they are doing… instead of admitting that they are fleecing people with bad impulse control or a genuine emergency
Yup, the intersection in Sunnyside Queens where Tom Holland’s Spiderman lives was the worst place for pedestrian deaths in the city until the city curved the road a bit about 1 mile back.
We’ve had several people killed in their living rooms in the last few years by cars just crashing straight through the front of the house. I’m sure keeping a head on a swivel will work there.
Enforcing speed limits has been shown time and again with research to not work long term. Just chasing people around only gets a brief change in behavior. The design of the road sets the speeds, not the fear of punishment. Re-engineering the roads to enforce slow driving is the first real step, the second being to remove car routes in favor of mass transit, biking, and pedestrian routes being the actual win.
people will still find ways for vehicles to hit them
was in the city yesterday and someone decided to walk behind a reversing vehicle that was leaving the parking space then proceeded to blame them
also speed limits are not enforced in the United States very well
we need either one or the other and don’t have the transportation technology for both at this current point in time
Kinda happy to see youre expanding your bad takes outside the political communities.
You mean someone backed their car into a pedestrian without making sure the way was clear?
You might have forgotten over half of all people are idiots. Driver and pedestrian alike. No excuse for the driver not looking out being the liable one, but a lot of people walk right into shit because they’re either: not paying attention, think if something happens they can sue for money, or are frankly idiots.
I bike or walk everywhere I go, so I’m familiar with having to watch out for drivers. That being said, I think the person operating thousands of pounds of steel bears more responsibility than anyone just walking around. You’re controlling a machine capable of killing people, you should really pay attention to what you’re doing.
Enforcement can never solve speeding. You need speed control infrastructure.
I favor designed spaces for pedestrians over more cops/enforcement any day.
ACAB and passive enforcement over active enforcement. It saves money and lives.
Tired of them pretending like that’s what they are doing… instead of admitting that they are fleecing people with bad impulse control or a genuine emergency
Yup, the intersection in Sunnyside Queens where Tom Holland’s Spiderman lives was the worst place for pedestrian deaths in the city until the city curved the road a bit about 1 mile back.
Instead of increasing surveillance to enforce, we should be designing streets to encourage slower driving.
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We’ve had several people killed in their living rooms in the last few years by cars just crashing straight through the front of the house. I’m sure keeping a head on a swivel will work there.
Enforcing speed limits has been shown time and again with research to not work long term. Just chasing people around only gets a brief change in behavior. The design of the road sets the speeds, not the fear of punishment. Re-engineering the roads to enforce slow driving is the first real step, the second being to remove car routes in favor of mass transit, biking, and pedestrian routes being the actual win.
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