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Pet Peeves v. 5.0

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I probably wouldn't be able to understand it without my fiancee explaining it. In his words:

"I feel math"

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Fjones said:
Traffic/pedestrian pet peeve:

In a crosswalk in the middle of the street with no traffic light, why do pedestrians have automatic right of way with cars forced to yield to them?
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in my experience as a pedestrian, so few drivers will ever yield the right of way to a pedestrian that trying to understand why they are supposed to is a worthless endeavor. i guess you could say this is a bit of a pet peeve on my part.
 
cops. what good will come from charging a 6 yr old with special needs with assault?

a student of mine gave another teacher a bloody nose, people freaked out and ended up calling 911 (the teacher was convinced her brain was bleeding out thru her nose 8)). the teacher had no desire to press charges but the cops kept trying to pressure her into doing so. there was a class watching most of this unfold and now the rumor mill has begun.
 
felix said:
uh no, i read and understood your post completely, i just happen to disagree with it.


i was referring to this part:
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Okay, and in reference to that part, would you care to address what I said, since you didn't yet?
 
Damien said:
You're in a car man. You're going to get where you're going way faster than anyone on foot. I agree with Felix, it's a courtesy.
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If a pedestrian or a few pedestrians needlessly slow down a car, it has a domino or chain reaction effect on cars behind him, resulting in traffic backups that cause further backups exiting the parking garage.

Conversely, if a pedestrian has to wait a few extra seconds or so, it has no affect on any other pedestrian, since unlike cars, two or more people can occupy the same small area at the same time when getting from point A to point B.

And no, a car will not always get somewhere faster. It takes 10 to 15 minutes just to get out of the parking garage after class, partly because there is little effort to maximize traffic flow. On foot, a person would already have exited the garage and been halfway to the first traffic light.
 
michael said:
in my experience as a pedestrian, so few drivers will ever yield the right of way to a pedestrian that trying to understand why they are supposed to is a worthless endeavor. i guess you could say this is a bit of a pet peeve on my part.
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Get a car. Problem solved.
 
The obvious solution see to build an arch of some sort that would enable pedestrians to cross over the cars while the cars go about their business uninterrupted. I suspect we'll see this eventually.

Also, at my campus they have three of these crosswalks within a few hundred feet, two of which are about 50 or 100 feet away. This is nonsense. They put the crosswalks in to make the streets safer but it seems to have the opposite effect.
 
my pet peeve is people who post multiple posts in a row on the same topic instead of multi-quoting.
 
Fjones said:
Okay, and in reference to that part, would you care to address what I said, since you didn't yet?
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Originally Posted by Fjones View Post
Furthermore, you then say "If a car doesn't understand this, it's his fault and not the law's fault." Huh? What does a driver's COMPREHENSION of a law have to do with whether the law makes SENSE or not? I UNDERSTAND the existence and wording of the law just fine; I just happen to disagree with it.
i was referring to this part:

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2) It causes cars to behave unpredictably, since different drivers yield differently in this situation (meaning, some drivers will come to screeching halt if a pedestrian is 25 feet away from the crosswalk even though the car and about three more cars behind it would have easily gone before the pedestrian reached the crosswalk)
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sigh... if you stop foaming at the mouth and pounding your keyboard in a frenzy, you might realise that i was actually kind of agreeing with you on that bit.

i'll reword it for you:

some drivers don't understand the dynamics of pedestrian crossings - like you said, some of them stop far too early, holding up the traffic behind them unnecessarily. some drivers screech to a halt at the last second, causing the traffic behind to also brake suddenly.

my point was that those two scenarios are not the fault of the rule itself (or pedestrians); it's because those drivers are dumbasses.
 
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