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Originally Posted by Locke
So...pedestrians are exempt from personal responsibility and can just wander onto the roads at will?
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Yes. The streets used to be for everyone.
You can still find places like this today, and frankly they are just plain better. North America bought into the propaganda that cars = freedom and happiness, and our urban planning has utterly suffered to actually serve humans living in cities because of it.
Some places bought into the American corporate manufactured ideal for a time, but ultimately realized it sucks:
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If you drive streets like this, yes you expect pedestrians to wander onto the road at will.