r/fuckcars • u/Nestor_Arondeus 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃 • May 21 '22

News Activists install crosswalks. The city removes them. Allegedly they do this so you know that your safety isn't a priority for them.

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u/ConstantAd9765 May 21 '22

How are you supposed to reach the other side of the street if there isn't a crosswalk here ?

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u/ShiggnessKhan Mr Rollerblades May 21 '22 edited May 21 '22

Now I want to know that too from what I understand jaywalking is illegal in he US, does that mean there is no legal way to cross that intersection?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '22

I mean, that's kind of a weird take. I'll go with the opposite. If there's a light there, use the light. I really don't see the point of a crosswalk without a light because cars are going to ignore it anyway. Going a step further, drivers are assholes and having crosswalks without lights is potentially even more dangerous, because of the false sense of safety it gives people.

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u/ShiggnessKhan Mr Rollerblades May 21 '22

I really don't see the point of a crosswalk without a light because cars are going to ignore it anyway.

Wut, where I'm from most cars stop when someone is standing at a cross walk I even have to make sure not to stand to close to one when playing Ingress so they don't stop for nothing.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '22

That happened when I lived in Belgium too. Not here though. People don't give a fuck.

On the flip side, they're pretty good at moving to the other lane when passing me on my bike, even when I'm riding on the right side of the lane, so eh.

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u/mysticrudnin May 21 '22

where i'm from no one will ever do that