http://www.grist.org/article/2011-03-02-hit-by-cars-pedestrians-are-ticketed-in-hospital-video
http://www.grist.org/article/2011-03-02-hit-by-cars-pedestrians-are-ticketed-in-hospital-video
Good.
Yesterday, as I was pulling into Williams to get a coffee, a guy walked out the door, didn't look, and almost walked right into the side of my truck.
We both stopped at the last minute, and he went ABSOLUTELY NUTS, pounding on my side window, yelling, screaming, and calling me out for a fight.
People routinely walk into traffic without even looking. I don't understand what they're thinking.
Hernandez. Alberto. Conclusion - Mexicans don't know how to look both ways before crossing the street.
Also - that guy is a whiney bitch. It would have been awesome if he had gotten hit by a car in his final scene where he decided to by a jackass and jaywalk.
very biased article IMO, didn't another municipality not long ago have a guy wearing a bunny suit walking into traffic and ticket driver for not stopping for pedestrians?
They ought to be driving not walking! What do they think this is some backwards 3rd world country?
I have come close to hitting a few pedestrians over the years. Mostly at night, with them wearing black or dark clothes, on an unlight street, and with them jaywalking.
The latest involved a guy walking down the middle of the middle lane (three lanes either direction) of a very busy county road. It was nighttime, he was wearing all dark clothes, and the guy who had pulled out from behind me to pass.. had to swerve into oncoming traffic to avoid him as I went for the shoulder.
If either of us had hit him, we would have gotten a ticket, summons to court, and possible jail time.
They can interfere if they want...usually it ends in them dying, which is why I didn't know you could get a ticket for it.
I do kind of agree with that write-up though...if you're trying to save money or get in shape by walking or running to work, or really doing anything on or near roads that isn't in a car, you face an insane amount of danger, and usually hostility. I'm not some crazy hippie trying to rid the world of cars, I just like to walk sometimes.
I think they should get tickets. If you are driving and hit someone and they are seriously injured or killed it not only ruins their life, but yours too. I dont think idiots walking across the street infront of cars should be able to blame drivers if they hit them.
About every 50 minutes a college campus can be pretty tough to drive through, when class lets out the stream of people never seems to end.
My favorite are the ones on bikes who can see four cars at a four way intersection and fly right through it, I'm waiting to see that splat one day soon.
Nitroracer wrote: My favorite are the ones on bikes who can see four cars at a four way intersection and fly right through it, I'm waiting to see that splat one day soon.
No kidding. At my campus, I have seen people fly across a four lane road despite the light being red. 
Also there is a four lane by the projects where people like to run across at night dressed in black. I have almost hit people a number of times.
Also there is a four lane by the projects where people like to run across at night dressed in black. I have almost hit people a number of times.
We get a lot of that in areas where "Freelance Pharmaceuticals" are available
(my loud muffler gives me an edge...)
93EXCivic wrote:Nitroracer wrote: My favorite are the ones on bikes who can see four cars at a four way intersection and fly right through it, I'm waiting to see that splat one day soon.No kidding. At my campus, I have seen people fly across a four lane road despite the light being red.
Unfortunately they got one here in Charleston yesterday. Judging by the marking paint the cops were spraying all over the road he didn't survive. 
As far as pedestrians, in SC the only place they have the right of way is in cross walks with the light and residential areas.
Chebbie_SB wrote: We get a lot of that in areas where "Freelance Pharmaceuticals" are available
That is my problem
I thought that looked familiar... that's right near where I live!
(it's a E36 M3ty road to drive on too - lots of hills with short visibility makes it tough to turn left out of)
Like the man said, poor planning, it's often difficult to walk from one strip mall to the next even when they're on the same side of the street. And drivers ignore crosswalks, not all drivers not all the time but they're no promise of safety. Kamakazee bicyclists are another issue & a danger to both
DILYSI Dave wrote: Hernandez. Alberto. Conclusion - Mexicans don't know how to look both ways before crossing the street.
Well, the answer to that is an "anti-imigration" fence.
We have the same problem around here. There is a mile stretch of 6 to 8 divided highway with shopping centers on both sides. Behind the shopping centers there are houses and apartment buildings.
With an average of one struck pedestrian a month the city decided to plant trees and hedge in the median. That didn't work since they just crawled thru the hedge. Then the city put up push button activated walk lights at all the intersections. Still no good.
So the latest is a 6 foot high "anti-imigration" fence.
Datsun1500 wrote: It would seem that one of those pedestrian bridges would solve the problem. Too logical?
The last pedestrian bridge put up in Calgary cost something like $25 mil. 
If they are walking to be healthy, they can walk an extra 4 minutes to a crosswalk.
Datsun1500 wrote: It would seem that one of those pedestrian bridges would solve the problem. Too logical?
Way too logical! There are 6 intersections in that mile, each with a push button that stops all traffic for a minute so you can cross the road.
Did that help? NO, they would still cross in the "middle of the block", crawl thru the bushes, and pop out in traffic.
HiTempguy wrote:Datsun1500 wrote: It would seem that one of those pedestrian bridges would solve the problem. Too logical?The last pedestrian bridge put up in Calgary cost something like $25 mil.
That's a pretty elitist "auto-centric" attitude, mister! Don't you think the taxpayers of your fair state paid a tad more than $25 mil for the smooth ribbons of asphalt you enjoy behind the wheel of your car? 
1988RedT2 wrote: That's a pretty elitist "auto-centric" attitude, mister! Don't you think the taxpayers of your fair state paid a tad more than $25 mil for the smooth ribbons of asphalt you enjoy behind the wheel of your car?
Those "smooth ribbons of asphalt" drive economic prosperity (so in reality, BUSINESS paid for those when it comes down to it, with the taxpayers being paid by business). Society would not be where it is today with out rapid, affordable transit. Pedestrians can GTFO of the way. No different then me thinking about the millions in dollars of lost time when there is an accident on the highway. That retard should be shot.
Also, I don't live in no "state" :P And for someone to casually bandy about $25 mil, hows that quote go? "I'll pay attention when we start talkin' billions" $100 is too much money spent to help 1 person a day cross a road in a quicker fashion.
I would really like to be able to watch the video on that link, but unfortunately I got 2 minutes in and had to turn it off. That commenter was horrible.
In reply to HiTempguy:
Spoken like a true conservative 
HiTempguy wrote: Those "smooth ribbons of asphalt" drive economic prosperity (so in reality, BUSINESS paid for those when it comes down to it, with the taxpayers being paid by business).
Wait, business generated the money with the special capitalist pixie dust and was kind enough to give some to the taxpayers? If I'd known they could do that, I'd have stopped giving them my money for goods and services a long time ago...
Society would not be where it is today with out rapid, affordable transit. Pedestrians can GTFO of the way.
Never mind that walking or cycling to work cuts down on the number of cars clogging up the smooth ribbons as the goods and services try to traverse them? Or the relative amount of traffic problems caused by pedestrian traffic as opposed to incompetent and/or asshat drivers?
No different then me thinking about the millions in dollars of lost time when there is an accident on the highway.
For serious? That's where your mind goes when there's an accident? Personally, I tend to start with "is everybody okay?"
$100 is too much money spent to help 1 person a day cross a road in a quicker fashion.
How about for something to allow cars to drive unimpeded and accident-free when there are pedestrians who will be crossing there? Though when you look at the house a million buys, it's hard to imagine how to burn through 25M building a pedestrian bridge...
Hal wrote:DILYSI Dave wrote: Hernandez. Alberto. Conclusion - Mexicans don't know how to look both ways before crossing the street.Well, the answer to that is an "anti-imigration" fence. We have the same problem around here. There is a mile stretch of 6 to 8 divided highway with shopping centers on both sides. Behind the shopping centers there are houses and apartment buildings. With an average of one struck pedestrian a month the city decided to plant trees and hedge in the median. That didn't work since they just crawled thru the hedge. Then the city put up push button activated walk lights at all the intersections. Still no good. So the latest is a 6 foot high "anti-imigration" fence.
we had a barrier put in on a main street that seperated chicago from evanston a while back to keep traffic from the then newly erected shopping center (evanston side) from cutting into the neighborhood (chicago side). It ended up being removed as "discriminatory".
http://www.chicagoreporter.com/index.php/c/Sidebars/d/Evanston_Divide:The_Short_Life_of%E2%80%98Bernie%E2%80%99s_Wall%E2%80%99
article on the barrier
for the record, that shopping center does generate alot of traffic and has caused at least 1 car accident (I was in it )
Zomby woof wrote: Spoken like a true conservative
Somebody's gotta do it.
REPRESENT! thumps chest and points
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