Posted on 03/26/2021 6:24:17 AM PDT by artichokegrower
On Thursday, a bill that would decriminalize jaywalking in California was formally introduced in the Assembly.
Assembly Bill 1238, authored by Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), would make it legal to cross a street when not at a crosswalk or against the crosswalk light when it is not an “immediate hazard” to do so. Amendments to AB 1238, also known as the Freedom to Walk Act, are expected, as lawmakers are currently working with law enforcement officials to better define what constitutes an “immediate hazard.”
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Only white people go down to the crosswalk?
These idiots ought to go and look at film from cities back in the days before crosswalks existed.
Streets were a clogged, crazy mess.
And that was way before vehicles got faster and bigger.
Look in the mirror.
And before cell phones...
The hypocrites can’t have it both ways; talking out of one side of their mouth saying they want to reduce pedestrian deaths and then talking out the other side of their mouth saying they’re going to stop summonsing jaywalkers.
“RAMMING SPEEEEEED!”
They want to do both. Their solution is to use mechanisms like this to justify progressively banning cars.
If you walk in the middle of the street bad things can happen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq7uPGkI9Lo
In general, yes. I would include Asians as those who follow this law too.
A certain class of people are chronic scofflaws, and that is why the closed circuit videos of voter fraud all involved one particular visibly identifiable race, a race which routinely tests the limits of civil society without compunction.
Does this also give protection to drivers?
Of course, they are painted white.
While I haven't researched it, I suspect Americans of White European Descent are responsible for modern safety, modern sanitation, modern hygiene, and so forth.
This is a very entertaining - and quite informative - video on the history of J-Walking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxopfjXkArM
BTW, I was in Bellevue, Wa near my building back about 20 years ago and liked to watch the motorcycle cop catch J-walkers. It was a fairly quiet 4 lane street and this spot was half a block from Bellevue way. People J-walked all the time. The cops literally would stake it out.
One day a guy RAN across the street and into the building. The cop rode his motorcycle up to the curb at about a 45 degree angle at a fairly high speed and lost control and dropped his bike. He then ran into the building. I honestly don’t know if he caught the evil J-walker. If the guy knew the cop was on his tail, I’m pretty sure he lost him.
I now work in Louisville. People J-walk right in front of cops and nobody cares. I like Louisville. :)
Will the jaywalkers also be given the right of way as they cross the street? I suppose it will be a racial thing so that whites will have to yield to peoples crossing a road at any place.
I work from home now, but when I worked in downtown Louisville, I J-walked from the parking lot to my building every single day. Sometimes with a cope bearing down on me. But there was light traffic and nobody cared.
I have no doubt that if I had actually caused a hazard, I’d have been ticketed.
Woe betide any white person who hits a black person jaywalking.
See my post 14.
I actually welcome this type of law. However, my take is that if you hit a pedestrian that is not in a crosswalk, it’s on them.
I hit a pedestrian pretty hard back in 2006. He was J-walking. He was fully to blame and though I got a letter from an attorney, my insurance company (Allstate) told me to just forward to them. They then sent him a terse letter explaining they would be representing me and they consider the J-Walker fully to blame.
That was the last we ever heard about it. :)
Fact is, J-walking laws are one of those things that is too arbitrary. It’s insanely dangerous on one street, while perfectly safe and a significant time saver on another. Both streets should not have the same enforcement. In fact, in the Seattle area they would literally patrol for J-walkers on the quiet street to pick up extra cash for the city.
There was even a “mentally challenged” young man who lived with his mother on Queen Anne hill in seattle that was stopped for “J-Walking” on one of those quiet “one lane” streets up there. The encounter lead to him being killed by police.
J-walking is to police harassment of walkers what a burned out license plate light is to police harassment of drivers.
I can see now...
Man crossing street in the middle of the block gets slammed by an SUV..! The "victim" is thrown across the sidewalk, severely injuring two pedestrians and into a plate glass window.. The DRIVER is cited for not wearing a seat belt... :(
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