‘I’m walking here!’: jaywalking legalized in New York City
www.theguardian.com
New law, letting people cross street outside of crosswalk, ends racial disparities in enforcement, council member says

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.

  • frank@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    132·
    4 hours ago

    Good, especially since the law just targets POC.

    If car traffic became 50% worse to make walking traffic 5% better, that’s a win for humans in the city. It’ll help convince more people to use non-car methods of transportation and that helps spark people to vote for and invest in more non-car infrastructure.

    Ditching cars in populated cities isn’t a magic law or anything, it’s a slow incremental burn; legalizing pedestrians walking strictly helps that

      • frank@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        62·
        2 hours ago

        Agree, but it’s certainly easier to do in NYC than rural places in the US, so I advocate for starting there

        • 佐藤カズマ@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 minutes ago

          Honestly? Buses would be a good short-term solution that can be implemented immediately with the right political will, and enough force.

        • AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.eeEnglish
          31·
          1 hour ago

          The US used to have a comprehensive rail network. Every single town had a train station. We already had the solution to this problem.

          • Takumidesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 hour ago

            I live in a rail hub in the us. The city is nicknamed after it and train tracks literally run through the city center.

            It would take me 6 hours to walk there.

          • merde alors@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
            11·
            1 hour ago

            and what do you use to get to the train station?

            how do you carry goods to that station? Does your train have a stop in every farm?

            • AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.eeEnglish
              31·
              1 hour ago

              Wow you’re right there is a use case for a vehicle therefore it’s literally impossible to have public transit in rural areas, despite the fact that it already existed /s

              • merde alors@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
                1·
                30 minutes ago

                it’s not like i don’t hate cars, i do. But i really can’t see how you’re going to convince “rurals” with that argument

                good luck to you