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Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Fri Jul 1 11:17:19 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by fdtutf on Fri Jul 1 09:23:41 2016. Thing is, where I live right now, our *school zone* speed limit is just five under the new default speed limit for NYC. Yet everyone coexists. I can only assume pedestrians in NYC are stupider, because ours seem to handle fast traffic just fine. We have six lane no-island 45 MPH roads, one of which separates a college campus w/8000 residents from the nearest source of beer. Hundreds of drunken college students cross that road every day, yet no incidents. More likely, I would say NYC has a problem of careless pedestrians.I've actually been hit by vehicles twice while walking: once, I was in a crosswalk at the exit to a shopping center, and a dumbass waiting to make a left turn onto the main road didn't see I had walked in front of his car, and started to go. It was just a tap, but I was royally pissed, and he offered no apology. The drivers behind him gave him an earful. The second time, it was dark out and pouring rain so I had my hood up on my sweater, limiting my peripheral vision and making me harder to see. Crossing at the green, an idiot making a left turn onto the side road didn't see me in the crosswalk and knocked me down. Neither situation would have been helped by any traffic mitigating strategy, as both drivers managed to hit me immediately after starting from a complete stop. |
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