The origin of the word "jaywalking" is exactly that. Blame the victim.

Always remember that "vehicular manslaughter" was created with lower penalties than manslaughter, because juries were consistently not finding motorists guilty of manslaughter.

It was too easy for jurors to identify with the driver, and think, what if it was me driving that car, killing that person by accident?

We need safer infrastructure in this world than one allowing anyone to be a killer just by being distracted.

For all its faults, the NRA knows that guns are unsafe. It promotes "gun safety" not "shirt safety" – it doesn't blame people who get shot accidentally because they were wearing the wrong kind of shirt. Whereas cities around the world talk about "bike safety" when the unsafe element is not the bike at all.

In my country its normal for pedestrians to walk in highways. The result is that drivers expect pedestrians everywhere, and collisions are rare

“If someone doesn’t die because of it, we will never know, while the living have to suffer"

Man, I could not have done a better job of distilling the effects of the toxic "rugged individualism" ingrained in American culture down to a single sentence...

She’s an estate agent. What do you expect?

I don't think she's complaining. She is making the very good point that the benefit of the bill is invisible, while the downsides are visible. Making policy decisions based on what's right instead of what's marketable makes a party unpopular because the electorate is dumb and shortsighted.

FWIW, it's not allowed in Chicago but people tend to use the space for short-term parking and pulling over. The city has started blocking the road surface near corners to make this impossible, both with curb bump outs and simple flexible reflective posts.

I think they recently passed a bill to make it illegal, but it won't be enforced till sometime next year.

It's legal in many places. My city is just now starting to enforce corner parking.

Is this what we are going to do now, anything remotely good say "things like that is why Dems lose elections" as we watch people and our planet die.

Cool. This is great.

Drivers don’t stop. I’m not stupid enough to step off the curb until it’s clear you’ve seen me and are stopping

I almost got nailed by a city bus on 5th and Market in SF after the green walk signal turned on. Somebody literally grabbed my jacket and pulled me back and maybe saved my life.

I mean, there are plenty of warnings and advice on how to do things like hike through bear or cougar country. Someone who gets mauled trying to pet a bear cub isn't going to get much sympathy.

It's such a common-sense rule that it'd never occurred to me that such a developped country wouldn't have it.

This article is because san francisco is actually trying to address pedestrian fatalities instead of just writing them off as the cost of modernity. Most of the article is from reactionaries, who may not even live here, mad about progressive, at least by American standards, policies that the city is implementing like daylighting.

You could live in a socialist utopia and you could still find people to quote saying they liked it back when the poor knew there place.

San francisco isn't perfect but it's still miles ahead of almost every city in America. That may be a low bar but it's something.

It sounds like satire, but it might just be 2024.