‘I’m walking here!’: jaywalking legalized in New York City
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New law, letting people cross street outside of crosswalk, ends racial disparities in enforcement, council member says

The new law permits pedestrians to cross a roadway at any point, including outside of a crosswalk. It also allows for crossing against traffic signals and specifically states that doing so is no longer a violation of the city’s administrative code. But the new law also warns that pedestrians crossing outside of a crosswalk do not have the right of way and that they should yield to other traffic that has the right of way.

  • Count Regal InkwellEnglish
    59•1 day ago

    “Jaywalking” being a crime is such a fundamentally brainrot thing

    The law here in Brazil, not that anyone follows it, but it basically follows the logic of “the smaller you are, the more of a right of way you have”. I.e. theoretically, a car should ALWAYS stop or slow itself to save a pedestrian or cyclist or even a motorcyclist

    … Again, not that anyone follows it, but it IS on the paper.

    • @jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
      2•10 hours ago

      That’s the same logic in the US. Except everyone yields to animals, because you can’t tell a horse or a mule not to trample that person who walks next to them

    • @Mossheart@lemmy.caEnglish
      5•17 hours ago

      It would be nice if this was followed but the reality of the world is the opposite. It’s right of weight, not right of way.

    • merde alorsOPEnglish
      12•22 hours ago

      the term used here is “vulnerable”. Vulnerability gives you priority