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Originally Posted by Chill Cosby
The problem with this whole situation is not that jaywalking is bad or not bad, which I think is what your point is getting at, it's that these people were doing it like idiots and Calgary needs laws against it to protect these idiots from themselves. You can't possibly have come in here to promote the safety of shared domain and jaywalking in general in a thread about people walking down a lane of traffic.
Poor timing for that argument, I'd think.
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I believe people in Calgary are unable to share roads because the rules began to separate pedestrians and vehicles. Much of the cohesion found in places where pedestrians and vehicles share a single domain is necessitated by the fact that they have to share the same space.
Oddly enough, even the idea of forcing people to start sharing the space tomorrow isn’t that far-fetched. In recent years, there have been successful examples of town/cities that reduced the amount of signage they provided or created proper shared spaces without the normal space demarcations and it improved the situation.