40,000 bodies a year aren't enough to convince Americans of the value of alternatives to cars, and that's a much steeper blood sacrifice than they're paying for the right to own guns--figure it out
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What city do you live in. Here in genteel Victoria, drivers sometimes stop, crosswalk or no crosswalk, if you look like you might be thinking about crossing.
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I have found that my experience holds thruout the northeastern USA
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UMass campus the sole exception
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Busy part of the world
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That's why it's best to install traffic islands. And if there's more than one lane per direction, then traffic lights are the only solution.
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I'm fond of pedestrian overpasses, lots in Japan
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Terrible for the disabled, elderly, parents and cyclists. I hate having pedestrians change levels. It's the cars that should do that
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Yes they are not a silver bullet, I just like them...
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I think they should be used only on highway, railway crossings (with ramps) or at railway stations (with lifts). Elsewhere they just make the city worse.pic.twitter.com/J57vrzZ5PH
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plus, due to the height clearance, it's best to have the high/railway elevated and make an underpass. Then pedestrians and cyclists can have minimal height difference. And cyclists can get back up the slope with inertiapic.twitter.com/tWn7mA1rwu
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Started walking a few miles to work every day, already confronted multiple drivers, have accepted that one of them will likely shoot me after I throw a rock at their car.
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Try to knock them out with the throw
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Chicago was notorious for that. There is a city I do not miss.
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today a Fedex truck gunned it turning right through the crosswalk, apparently only to send me a message that i was walking too slow. missed me by several inches. pretty much every day--in "walkable" NYC.
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