The new law permits pedestrians to cross a roadway at any point, including outside of a crosswalk. It also allows for crossing against traffic signals and specifically states that doing so is no longer a violation of the city’s administrative code. But the new law also warns that pedestrians crossing outside of a crosswalk do not have the right of way and that they should yield to other traffic that has the right of way.

  • Count Regal Inkwell
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    1060 minutes ago

    “Jaywalking” being a crime is such a fundamentally brainrot thing

    The law here in Brazil, not that anyone follows it, but it basically follows the logic of “the smaller you are, the more of a right of way you have”. I.e. theoretically, a car should ALWAYS stop or slow itself to save a pedestrian or cyclist or even a motorcyclist

    … Again, not that anyone follows it, but it IS on the paper.

  • @[email protected]
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    119 minutes ago

    restricting where and when people can walk in in a public space? sounds like communism

  • @[email protected]
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    231 minutes ago

    They were also fans of using it against left-wing protestors while ignoring the right doing it, particularly in the case of anti-genocide protests. I assume they will just find something new to pick people off in the crowd now.

    • @stupidcasey
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      Eh, keeping car traffic smooth is way more challenging than keeping pedestrian traffic smooth. Also people tend to be more chaotic in there direction than cars. If a car stops in front of you you’re sorta stuck if a human stops in front of you you can always bash him in the head with a bar stool or go around or whatever.

      I know it was auto manufacturers lobbying for the law but can you imagine people just randomly darting across an interstate moving at 80+ mph? I can because I have seen it before and not once have I thought wow I sure am glad that’s legal.

      • @[email protected]
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        122 hours ago

        I think you might have picked a bad community to share your sympathies for smooth car traffic, I’m afraid.

        For what it’s worth, I think it’s reasonable enough to forbid pedestrians from crossing high-speed (60+ mph) roads, but otherwise they should have full right of way over any road, and fuck the cars. They can just be patient and deal with it.

  • EleventhHour
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    In 28 years living in New York, the vast majority of my crossing the street is done between the blocks. Some of them are very long.

    And New Yorkers cross the street like we own it because we know that anyone who hits us is gonna get their ass sued off and have to pay out ridiculous amounts of money.

    • azl
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      186 hours ago

      I support this law (fuck cars), but if you step into the street thinking an oncoming car won’t destroy you like a pinata stuffed with ketchup packets, you have survived the luckiest lawsuit-free 28 years.

  • @LovableSidekick
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    When you can’t train police not to be racist, just give up and make shit legal. What could possibly go wrong?

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      • metaStatic
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        67 hours ago

        the bricks all end up on one side of the cross walk. good idea, no way for it to actually work.

          • metaStatic
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            Japan used a flag system, the higher the traffic the less likely it is to work

        • RBG
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          166 hours ago
          1. It’s a joke.

          2. Just throw them back after use.

          • metaStatic
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            I love it, an elegant solution … now if only we could find an elegant end user to actually implement it.

        • Annoyed_🦀
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          35 hours ago

          Yet somehow some city think it’s a good idea to use the same exact idea but with a flag when crossing the street.

  • @[email protected]
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    -198 hours ago

    While I certainly don’t think it should be a crime, 90% of the time I see people do it, they are near crosswalks and continue to walk towards them after dangerously playing frogger. What is the motivation? Why are you increasing the danger? Doesn’t make any sense.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 hours ago

      In a lot of situations I would rather cross mid block than at a corner crosswalk. The cars can’t be relied on to stop anyway, and mid-block there are a lot less directions you have to worry about.

      Even if the intersection is signalized given the existence of right turns on red it’s still often safer to cross mid block.

    • @[email protected]
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      65 hours ago

      In Denmark it’s illegal to cross the road 10-20m (or something like that, forgot the exact number) from a croasswalk. Outside that zone you can cross as much as you want. We are though seeing fences pop up on higher traffic roads to discourage crossing, but mostly on ring roads in bigger cities, not in the cities themselves.