Crossing the Street Shouldn't Be Deadly (but it is)
Crossing the street should be safe, convenient, and easy, but it isn't. And that's because in the US and Canada, the roads are designed for exactly one purpose: to move lots of cars as quickly as possible.
@stux It isn't just the drivers. A lot of pedestrians just walk out into the roads without checking for traffic, and some of them deliberately step out into traffic, daring drivers to hit them.
@stux I had to teach my kid to look both ways before crossing including on one-way streets and when traffic has red lights because of how bad drivers have gotten in Toronto in recent decades.
At risk of sounding 85, back in my day, that didn’t happen. But it legit didn’t. There are more drivers here than ever before, and they’re lazier and more distracted than ever before.
Bad combination.
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