• infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
      413·
      2 days ago

      Fuck off. Email or call your city council member and advocate for better pedestrian infrastructure. Do it, right now.

      • 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I live in the Netherlands. We have excellent pedestrian infrastructure, I can safely walk anywhere.

        We also raise our kids explaining them to always look both ways, to never suddenly cross the road and never to assume a driver has actually seen you. It’s basic road safety, you so the same for crossing a bicycle path or railroad tracks.

        • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
          35·
          2 days ago

          It’s an insult to tell someone to look before crossing the street in a fuckcars comm. Like no shit. Why do you think we’re all in here. It’s really frustrating because accounting for the externalities of cars is the normative state of being for us, nobody is in here to fool themselves about that fact, we’re here because of it. At least I am. I’m not really down in this thread to entertain the myth of the bumbling jay as some sage counter-argument. It’s not.

      • blitzen@lemmy.caEnglish
        42·
        2 days ago

        Both can be true.

        It can (and is) true that we need better pedestrian infrastructure. Or more to the point, less car-centric infrastructure.

        But it can (and is) also true that a pedestrian should take basic safety precautions when around dangerous things. He should likewise look both ways before crossing a bike path (infrastructure we support) and shouldn’t cross train tracks (also infrastructure we support) when the train is coming.

        We live largely in a world that caters to cars. I hope that can change. But that doesn’t absolve personal safety responsibility.