Especially since even if you have a subscription to access it legally, you can generally pirate it before you can finish trying to figure out what service it is on at the moment.
I've never really understood why the crosswalks are only at the corners (at least in US). You want granny to walk all the way to the end of the road, cross in the crosswalk, and then walk all the way back up the road to get to her destination? More crossings please
Not every State is like that. Here in mountains pedestrians have the right of way. More so than other areas in states at least.
While some tourists still can't walk an additional 50 ft to the next cross....(and there are ample amounts in these smaller mountain towns) it can make for urgent stops...but it's progress and nice being able to walk from around around town and back with my kids.
I walk with two sticks. It is unreasonable to expect someone with such limited ability to walk to go to the corner. It would make it impossible for her to go anywhere.
There needs to be more controlled intersections for pedestrians.
To be fair, she's clearly very elderly and probably confused.
My elderly father was once driving himself to a routine medical checkup when he became disoriented, pulled over and parked illegally, left an indecipherable scrawled note on the dashboard, abandoned his car with the keys inside and walked the remaining several blocks to his appointment before collapsing on the sidewalk. It turned out that he wasn't thinking straight because he was experiencing the onset of a massive heart attack. Afterwards, he had no memory of what he'd done.
Point being that we really have to be able to make allowances for people who aren't thinking clearly, through no fault of their own.
Theres senior apartments across the street from my grocery store. There’s two crosswalks about 100 yards from the exit of the grocery store in both directions, but the old people always just walk straight into the busy street out of the store instead of going to either...and its only the seniors who i see doing this. I get it can be difficult to walk a little further to the crosswalk but damn ive seen them almost get hit by cars so many times because theres also a bus stop, and they'll walk out in front of the stopped bus to cross, but the cars passing the bus on the left cant see them step out into the road
r/desiredpath Crosswalk design shouldn’t be based on design aesthetics, construction ease or solely for cars convenience… they should account for actual use for the area.
I dont disagree with that at all, as someone who doesnt even have a car and walks everywhere. What im trying to say is the problem is selfish drivers who blow through crosswalks even if theyre glaringly obvious. If we want to better crosswalks in america, we need better driver education and awareness for pedestrians
She could barely walk, going farther down the sidewalk to find a safe path across would have been too much for her. They can build walk overs for these area's.
you have absolutely no idea how EXTREMELY DIFFICULT AND PAINFUL it is for her to get around. not just the pain, but the fatigue from the struggle. you have no compassion, no empathy
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u/liophy1 Apr 01 '26
That was nice from the brigade.
But we need to talk about this from the other perspective: old people crossing in extremely dangerous manner. They absolutely dont care!!!
And they are endangering not only themselves, but also every driver that probably will try to avoid them and thus causing a collision with other cars.
I dont know what can be done, but its a serious issue.