New York’s success provides road map for others taking aim at pedestrian deaths
I live in a suburb and the biggest problem I see isn&#x27;t drivers, it is pedestrians. They do not use cross walks. If there is not a cross walk directly outside the shop they are leaving, they just cross the road whenever they feel like it.<p>Pedestrians also just stand and talk in the middle of street. It blows my mind. I have lived around the US and this is a distinctly NY thing.<p>And they also have the weird habit of doing their run...in the middle of the road. Even if there is an empty sidewalk with no crossings, people will just do their run in the road like they&#x27;re a car.<p>Drivers are also to blame but there would be even fewer if pedestrians were held to some standards of road safety. Police don&#x27;t even need to give tickets, just scare pedestrians into using common courtesy.