Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime
Jaywalking drives me crazy... sometimes I wish American culture was more German/Japanese in this area and Americans walked the extra 20 feet to the nearest crosswalk and waited for the light. A few times now I've had to tap my brakes for some guy dashing across the street to the island in the middle because he was too impatient to wait for the light to change. Sometimes it's a lady with a shopping cart.These aren't slow residential roads either, but roads around commercial centers with speed limits around 45 MPH.> In the Netherlands, for example, traffic engineers and urban planners have actually worked to lower the country’s curbs so as to encourage people to cross wherever they like.This I don't understand at all unless it's in low/slow traffic areas.