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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

TreasonousBastard

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1. It's hardly your fault if you get hit...

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Sat May 28, 2016, 04:06 PM

May 2016

the driver will get ticketed and sued if you run out in front of him.

Same with bicycles.

Streets are now for cars-- that's the American way. No sidewalks, no bike lanes, few actual pedestrian areas and plazas like they have all over Europe.

And when there are pedestrian crosswalks and lights? Pedestrians are regularly too lazy or in a hurry to walk the fifty extra feet to get to them.

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The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking" [View all] mahatmakanejeeves May 2016 OP

It's hardly your fault if you get hit... TreasonousBastard May 2016 #1

walking everywhere is exhausting undergroundpanther May 2016 #2

I got hit undergroundpanther May 2016 #3

Well, that puts the lie to my statement... TreasonousBastard May 2016 #4