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Originally Posted by Bunk
I think we should also remember that everyone is a pedestrian. The mode shouldn't be talked about as "those people". In fact, it's the only mode that encapsulates all people.
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Of course that is true. However the flip side is that because not everybody drives, etc; that also means there are a lot of pedestrians out there who don't understand the challenges that drivers face. Even if they drive a bit, a lot of people seem to "switch off" their internal driver's manual when they are walking. In Fotze's earlier example, a pedestrian clearly forgot that reading a phone is a distraction, and walked right into oncoming traffic against the light. Had Fotze been 1/2 as distracted as the pedestrian, that person would be in the hospital.
I'm not saying calming measures are all bad ideas; I'm just saying we need to look into the bigger / more common issues first.