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Lmao. No. Where I live drivers have no problem going right though the crosswalks while people are in them.
I thought they were going to talk about the people who cross at random places, wearing dark clothing, at night. But no they chose to complain about the people crossing correctly who get harassed by cars.
Nina Geneson Otis wrote in an email to The Standard. The real estate broker said daylighting is the kind of policy that makes Democrats lose elections.
Urbaninsm, like climate change, shouldn't be a political issue but oddly is. I wonder who could be behind it all?
Is this what we are going to do now, anything remotely good say "things like that is why Dems lose elections" as we watch people and our planet die.
Cool. This is great.
“If someone doesn’t die because of it, we will never know, while the living have to suffer,” Nina Geneson Otis wrote in an email to The Standard. The real estate broker said daylighting is the kind of policy that makes Democrats lose elections.
The fuck? Is parking at the corners of intersections legal in the US then? Because where I live it isn't for that exact same reason of it blocking visibility. And I'm sure she's suffering deeply for lacking a few parking spots... Dumb entitled cunt.
It's legal in many places. My city is just now starting to enforce corner parking.
I don't think she's complaining. She is making the very good point that the benefit of the bill is invisible, while the downsides are visible. Making policy decisions based on what's right instead of what's marketable makes a party unpopular because the electorate is dumb and shortsighted.
FWIW, it's not allowed in Chicago but people tend to use the space for short-term parking and pulling over. The city has started blocking the road surface near corners to make this impossible, both with curb bump outs and simple flexible reflective posts.
I think they recently passed a bill to make it illegal, but it won't be enforced till sometime next year.
The most braindead article ever...
"People die from leopards attacks, leopards say people should be more careful"
I mean, there are plenty of warnings and advice on how to do things like hike through bear or cougar country. Someone who gets mauled trying to pet a bear cub isn't going to get much sympathy.
Well, an argument that would fly over their heads is that this "daylighting" rule is in place in more than half of the world.
So maybe there’s a good reason ?
It's such a common-sense rule that it'd never occurred to me that such a developped country wouldn't have it.
America's more of a developed company than it is a developed country, and the CEOs don't work for the employees.
“If someone doesn’t die because of it, we will never know, while the living have to suffer” is such a wild thing to say oh my god. Yeah, thats the point. Less people die because of it.
“If someone doesn’t die because of it, we will never know, while the living have to suffer"
Man, I could not have done a better job of distilling the effects of the toxic "rugged individualism" ingrained in American culture down to a single sentence...
absolutely. Individualism is gonna be the death of us all at this rate
Especially after we all saw what they mean by the living "having to suffer," during COVID. The "suffering" of having to wear a mask. The "suffering" of maybe getting a perfectly safe vaccine in order to protect yourself and others (including people you don't know and will never meet, wow imagine that)...
But hey, it means that I don't have to pay for some homeless person's health care through my income tax, so worth it amirite?
She’s an estate agent. What do you expect?