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.

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restricting where and when people can walk in in a public space? sounds like communism

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it’s tiring to even think about the subjects to approach just to get you to see the ignorance in this comment

start by reading these 2 articles ☞

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sorry this was a joke mocking conservatives who preach freedom but support jaywalking laws. i should have made it more clear.

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While I certainly don’t think it should be a crime, 90% of the time I see people do it, they are near crosswalks and continue to walk towards them after dangerously playing frogger. What is the motivation? Why are you increasing the danger? Doesn’t make any sense.

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Where I’m from you need to be at least 30 meters from a crosswalk. Although in practice it just becomes whether or not there is a crosswalk within eyesight.

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In a lot of situations I would rather cross mid block than at a corner crosswalk. The cars can’t be relied on to stop anyway, and mid-block there are a lot less directions you have to worry about.

Even if the intersection is signalized given the existence of right turns on red it’s still often safer to cross mid block.

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I could see that in some areas. I rarely feel the need to do this myself, but there are occasions where it does make sense.

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That’s a good point most places, but in NYC, there is no turn on red. I still agree with being able to cross anywhere.

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In Denmark it’s illegal to cross the road 10-20m (or something like that, forgot the exact number) from a croasswalk. Outside that zone you can cross as much as you want. We are though seeing fences pop up on higher traffic roads to discourage crossing, but mostly on ring roads in bigger cities, not in the cities themselves.

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There’s no exact number. The law (færdselsloven §10.5) says “nearby”.

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similar in Austria, if there’s a crosswalk within 25 meters, you have to use it although even that law has an exemption “this doesn’t apply if traffic allows it without doubt and vehicle traffic isn’t impaired”

Hint: most trams in Vienna are 35 meters long, so you can cross at the other end of a tram stop if there’s a crosswalk only on one end.

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For the same reason that people dangerously exceed speed limits.

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Roads are the shackles of the patriarchy. Half joking

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And this changes: nothing

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Council member Mercedes Narcisse, a Brooklyn Democrat who sponsored the legislation, said on Tuesday that the new law ends racial disparities in enforcement, noting that more than 90% of the jaywalking tickets issued last year went to Black and Latino people.

Never heard of Walking While Black? This at least forces police to come up with better excuses.

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No you’re right. Jaywalking was abused to target minorities but never did the law ever do anything to prevent it from happening.

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How does one “legalize” walking? Jaywalking is an absurd concept to begin with.

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There are plenty of places you’re not allowed to walk for your own safety and the safety of others. It’s not a crazy concept, although I do think that jaywalking should be legal

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Airports are so annoyingly difficult to walk around.

I prefer walking straight through, personally.

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“Right to Travel” == right to walk on and across an interstate freeway where 5000 lb death missiles are hurtling past me at 90 mi/hr.

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Step 1: be American

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Step 2. bring cars to the market before proper regulations were a thing
Step 3. aggressively lobby and market that it’s the walkers fault for getting driven over
Step 4. actually win over public opinion somehow

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Racism. The Jays in jaywalking where probably immigrants with weird hats.

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Like halitosis, that term was coined in ads. Ads funded by car manufacturers

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Insane it was ever made illegal.

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Eh, keeping car traffic smooth is way more challenging than keeping pedestrian traffic smooth. Also people tend to be more chaotic in there direction than cars. If a car stops in front of you you’re sorta stuck if a human stops in front of you you can always bash him in the head with a bar stool or go around or whatever.

I know it was auto manufacturers lobbying for the law but can you imagine people just randomly darting across an interstate moving at 80+ mph? I can because I have seen it before and not once have I thought wow I sure am glad that’s legal.

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What, wait, no. I’ve lived in very rural areas, wtf was I supposed to do without a car? Bike back and forth a few hours for groceries?

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I will never be sad when car brains like you learn the hard way that cars are nothing but weapons. This is exactly why cars should be completely illegal, full stop.

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Ok, Let’s assume you are perfectly correct in every way, Now according to your hypothesis Cars have no purpose other than being a weapon, now since cars exist at least for the moment, it is probably for the best to make it illegal to dash across shooting ranges.

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I think you might have picked a bad community to share your sympathies for smooth car traffic, I’m afraid.

For what it’s worth, I think it’s reasonable enough to forbid pedestrians from crossing high-speed (60+ mph) roads, but otherwise they should have full right of way over any road, and fuck the cars. They can just be patient and deal with it.

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But what if those roads didn’t have to exist at all. We could replace those with dedicated high speed rail corridors.

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Maybe, but the alternative is unrealistic and simply not the reality we Live in.(at least in the United States)

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Can you imagine a car going 80+ mph in city traffic? I can’t

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I still can primarily because I live in Texas, it is not at all uncommon, not even on the interstate, though 40mph work zone going into school zones it happens regularly.

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I can. I just don’t expect it to reach its destination without crashing.

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