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It would seem that jaywalking is a much bigger threat to pedestrian and car safety than moderate speeding on non-residential streets. If we're going to hit cars with punitive fines, we should be ticketing jaywalkers with punitive fines.

As an alternative, I'd suggest eliminating the "contributory negligence" standard in favor of "comparative negligence", and reducing the speed limit to 20 mph, at least in the urban core.

Actually, that's a compromise position: my "natural" position is to eliminate the concept of "jaywalking" altogether, and make drivers operate cars in congested areas with the same amount of care that those "courtesy shuttles" are operated inside of airport concourses.

The whole "jaywalking" thing contributes to the culture of GTFOOMW.

http://westnorth.com/2009/02/01/a-history-of-jaywalking/

by oboe on Feb 27, 2012 1:46 pm • link • report

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