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I mean, say what you will about cars but the sidewalk is a dedicated lane for pedestrians. Walk on the street, fuck around and find out.
Plus if you’re walking in the road walk against the flow of cars not with. That way if a drunk driver (or just general asshole) comes swerving down the road you can see it and react.
I’d like to know why this was downvoted. Walking against the flow of traffic so you can see what’s coming is sensible advice.
Walking maybe, but bicycles that do this are morons. It’s been proven over and over that it’s unsafe yet they continue doing it — is no one curious about “hey I don’t know if that’s safe, I should check online?”
Nobody mentioned bicycles.
Uh, I did? I’m not allowed to mention things now? This community is intolerable
It may not have been your intention, but if you re-read the thread, you’ll see that you’re seemingly arguing for downvoting the advice of walking against the flow of traffic by bringing up bikes for no reason.
Bringing up bikes changes the point as bikes and pedestrians have different road use rules
my dad always said: walk facing toward traffic, and make eye contact with drivers, so they can be haunted by your face for the rest of their lives if they run you over.
Or you could just use the sidewalk?
A lot of the places I lived growing up didn’t have sidewalks.
Rural roads man.
90% of the streets in my neighborhood don’t have sidewalks and I live in a major city. Exactly half of one side of my block has a sidewalk
Unfortunately, you probably live in a formerly red lined area. This is a vestige of the past institutional racism from your city. But setting that aside, I was referring to the actual sidewalk present in the photo
One example: 47°42’58.8"N 122°18’21.3"W
no, it’s not redlining, these are the neighborhoods redlining was keeping black people out of.
cute attempt at whatever that was tho.
Nope
I’m aware, but in this exact picture, there is a sidewalk.
Walk on the street, fuck around and find out.
Maybe we need to bring back blóðhefnd . If a driver murders someone with their reckless driving, maybe they should live the rest of their life in fear that the surviving kin will do the same to them or their lived ones.
If you are walking on the street when there’s a sidewalk you as the pedestrian are being reckless.
Posts like this are part of the reason why the rest of us don’t take you people seriously.
Comments like this are part of the reason why the rest of us call your delusional state of mind “car brain”.
Closely related to, “I abuse animals because a vegan was mean to me once.”
I kinda understand him. If I have a sidewalk, I use it, simply because I don’t want to fucking get run over by a car. However, the comments are also quite disgusting.
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Exactly.
Personally, I make an effort to walk in the street whenever possible, even when there’s a sidewalk. Not when there are lots of cars around, and not right in the middle. Just enough to claim the space.
The neighborhood should be rebuilt with much wider sidewalks, for safety.
Cue the chasing goose: safety from what? Finish the sentence, safety from what?
Review my comments in this post. No one is arguing that the safety from what is CARS. that’s not the point.
The point is about the system as it currently stands, today.
I do that all the time here in Europe and nobody gets mad. It’s such an immense space and I don’t want to be relegated to 30cm of sidewalk. People hang out in the streets and car drivers are chill
I think it still very much depends where in Europe you do that
Italy, to be exact. Maybe doing the same in Germany would make me end up with a fine
Yeah, in Germany you would maybe get in trouble, however this really, depends on where you’re walking. But usually our sidewalks are big enough(as long as it isn’t completely blocked by parking cars) so that you can walk there safely.
This is more a case of Germany’s excessively law-abiding culture, IMO. It’s the same in East Asia: people waiting like zombies at a red pedestrian light even tho there’s not a car in sight.
That’s also true
Definitely not true in residential areas of Germany.
I don’t know where you live, but for my village I can say, that our sidewalks are big enough to comfortably walk there.
Unfortunately that is very likely.
I do the same in Japan. Most residential streets don’t have sidewalks so we share them with cars, pedestrians and bicycles. Some of the bigger streets have quite wide sidewalks (one car lane’s width or more) so I would use those.
But in this photo, the sidewalks are minuscule. I especially understand the dog walker choosing the road instead.
I’m happy that my town has started to widen sidewalks and reduce the width of roads to promote more foot traffic in the downtown area.
I lived in Morocco for three years and there it’s more common to walk in the street than on the sidewalk. Compared to the other places I’ve lived (Northern Europe), it’s strange, and the driving is more reckless, but no drivers got mad. Walking in the street is just what people do.
We need a “fuck pedestrians” instance for this one guys
If they’re gonna walk in the street, I guess I’ll drive on the sidewalk. 🤷🏻♂️
All for reducing or eliminating cars; but I’m not going to act like this ain’t fucking stupid.
But there is a sidewalk. I’m also wondering why these people are walking on the street
I feel like many people commenting are not familiar with walkable streets. They have however been very common for most of the time in history. Using the sidewalk is not really a good substitute for that. I used to live in a neighborhood where there were so many people on the streets on weekends, that u wouldn’t want to drive there even if it was technically a street. The quality of life there was amazing especially in the evening and on weekends.
Not enough context is given to know if weather or not that is true here or not. Such roads are rare, while I like them, this does not look like one of those situations froma glance. Therefore cars kill, gtfo the road.
People from Bakersfield walk on the street, all over. Once you get used to it though it’s really not that difficult to live with. I imagine if people still used roads for walking like before cars, we could figure it out.
There are so many worse things about Bakersfield, this doesn’t even rank.
Hay man, one of the lowest costs of living and average income ratios in the county. Also people get all ‘‘oh no’’ about crime rates, but it’s really not significant for people who go to bed at 9pm to 10pm and aren’t actively entrepreneurs of the night in any capacity. A lot of crime is criminal on criminal.
You don’t deserve more space just because you bought F150.
Maybe they do it to slow down traffic. It’s clearly a residential area. It could be that speeding is a problem.
It’s been tried and tested. Human bodies barely slow a car down. It’s much better to place something solid, like a concrete block
I was assuming a rational driver who would slow down to avoid hitting people.
And the accidental driver? A life is lost.
Using a human body as traffic calming is psycho mode zoning use change
I’m wondering if this is sheer desperation on the part of the locals. Maybe speeding is a problem, but the town refuses to install speed humps, so people do this to make the neighborhood safer for children. I don’t know.
I recommend tires and rebar impregnated concrete rubble. Not human lives.
We don’t have sidewalks in my community. Kids play in the streets and people are out walking on them all the time. Pushing strollers, walking their dogs, etc. The real difference is everyone is respectful. Cars drive slow and slow down more to go by giving extra space. Folks on the road move over and let the car go by. Kids collect up and move out of the way. A lot of the folks walking their dogs will step into the grass and wait. Everyone waves at each other. It’s like having a nice little community of friends that I never have to actually talk to. After living here for almost two years I strongly believe that I could stop and ask for help from any of them and I’d do the same. Kind of crazy reflecting on being that I’ve only ever talked to a few people, one of which only because she does crossing guard duties for the school crosswalk I take my son to in the golf cart.
This lack of self awareness always astounds me. You are in a car, it transports you way faster than your own two legs, it protects you from elements with tons of steel and glass. The same steel that has tons of potential energy. Carless pedestrians are your inconvenience?
Well, they slow you down and get your car all dented and bloody
If there were a bunch of cars in the driveways blocking the sidewalk I would agree, or if they had strollers or something with wheels that could get bumpy on the cracks, but since neither of those are true I’m with OOP on this one.
