• @[email protected]
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    844 months ago

    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.

    • magnetosphere
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      434 months ago

      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.

      • Prison Mike
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        -184 months ago

        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?”

          • Prison Mike
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            -94 months ago

            Uh, I did? I’m not allowed to mention things now? This community is intolerable

            • @[email protected]
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              94 months ago

              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.

            • @[email protected]
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              74 months ago

              Bringing up bikes changes the point as bikes and pedestrians have different road use rules

    • @mojofrododojo
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      364 months ago

      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.

        • @mojofrododojo
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          344 months ago

          A lot of the places I lived growing up didn’t have sidewalks.

          Rural roads man.

          • @[email protected]
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            4 months ago

            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

            • @Twentytwodividedby7
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              24 months ago

              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

              • @mojofrododojo
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                14 months ago

                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.

          • @Twentytwodividedby7
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            04 months ago

            I’m aware, but in this exact picture, there is a sidewalk.