‘I’m walking here!’: jaywalking legalized in New York City
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New law, letting people cross street outside of crosswalk, ends racial disparities in enforcement, council member says

The new law permits pedestrians to cross a roadway at any point, including outside of a crosswalk. It also allows for crossing against traffic signals and specifically states that doing so is no longer a violation of the city’s administrative code. But the new law also warns that pedestrians crossing outside of a crosswalk do not have the right of way and that they should yield to other traffic that has the right of way.

  • Boomkop3English
    33•8 months ago

    Step 2. bring cars to the market before proper regulations were a thing
    Step 3. aggressively lobby and market that it’s the walkers fault for getting driven over
    Step 4. actually win over public opinion somehow

    • Tlaloc_TemporalEnglish
      2•8 months ago

      Racism. The Jays in jaywalking where probably immigrants with weird hats.

      • Boomkop3English
        2•8 months ago

        Like halitosis, that term was coined in ads. Ads funded by car manufacturers