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Originally Posted by Fuzz
I've spent time in Vietnam and many other developing countries, and I get what you are saying, but it also comes at cost. Vietnam has a vehicular death rate over 4x higher than Canada per inhabitant and 6x higher per number of vehicles. Sure, the system moves more people quicker, but it also removes more of them from being in the way permanently.
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OK, forget Vietnam and other developing countries. Portugal is close to Canada for the death stats (6.3 vs. 5.8 per thousand). See the photo below I took from a window of the famous Tram #28 in Lisbon. The sidewalk width there was about 2 feet I could touch bell ring buttons on the building doors from the tram window. The girl walking by has a phone in her hand and she IS alert to the tram. You can do both. I'd say only in the Canadian big cities the lack of pedestrian awareness is so glaring.
Yesterday, a guy wearing big headphones and looking into his phone walked right into a car in front of us on 13th Ave; he was crossing on red. He didn't even bother to apologize; just gave the driver the OMG look and kept walking...
