What is it with pedestrians that drag their ass through busy intersections? This morning I (on the other side of the road waiting to walk across the other direction) watched a group of girls take the entire light to cross the street from green to red. There was a semi-truck at the front of the turning lane and several vehicles behind and the semi-truck was forced to turn on red because the light turned when the pedestrians were at the end of the intersection. He honked his horn at them while driving through and the funny thing is that they didn't even notice or care. I see this a lot in the city where pedestrians have zero urgency when crossing roads and I get that some drivers are dicks and I've had some close calls crossing intersections with cars but it's like they have contempt for traffic or something.
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