12-07-2020, 03:45 PM
(12-07-2020, 02:11 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(12-07-2020, 02:03 PM)dtkvictim Wrote: I don't have any interest in the greater debate going on here, but this comment stuck out to me. While the number of people who blindly step out in to traffic is certainly a very small percentage of pedestrians, anecdotally it's way higher than I thought it would be. When I commuted by foot daily I saw people doing this probably at least once a month. I don't even mean people that step out on to a road with live traffic and time their way between cars, I mean people that genuinely stepped in front of cars and forced them to stop or change lanes. The craziest part to me was that most of these occurred on Weber street where I'm extra careful with my mid-block crossings.
I even saw a woman once step directly in front of a moving police car on King St. Not a difficult street to watch for traffic on, and not the car you typically want to force to stop for you.
I dunno...I've not seen any study of this, but I spent a lot of time on campus, where I know people complain constantly about students walking into traffic, but when I watch carefully I always see people look for traffic.
Probably someone should do a study.
Yeah, I'm not suggesting that all of the drivers complaining about inattentive pedestrians are valid, just the some of them are valid.
But speaking of students, I do recall being let out for lunch at Cameron Heights and hundreds of students would cross Charles about 30 feet to the side of the light, regardless of traffic. There would usually be a number of cars lined up honking, waiting. I suspect the situation must be a bit different now with the Ion out front.