Monday, Slate published an article by Tom Vanderbilt (of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do fame) titled A defense of jaywalking. In it, Vanderbilt addresses some of the complexities of data available about pedestrian behavior, the history of street-use paradigms, and biases in crash reporting.
This is a great article, and if you're interested in jaywalking, walking in urban areas, or mode-sharing paradigms, I think you'll find it worth reading. Check it out!
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Cool article; I think part of the problem around jaywalking is that regardless of the true right of way, cars in populated areas should always be going slow enough to be able to stop in case of pedestrians, no matter what...which is often not at all the case. In fact, I've noticed that frequently cars will not stop at city crosswalks, when the pedestrian has the unambiguous right of way, because overall traffic flow is going fast enough such that if the car did stop to let the pedestrian pass, they would be likely rear-ended.
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