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From: df@ptsfa.UUCP (Dave Fox)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: crosswalks
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Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 17:29:04 EDT
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Reply-To: df@ptsfa.UUCP (Dave Fox)
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>Nevertheless, not one driver in a hundred seems to believe
>in any form of pedestrians' rights.  Many will actually
>speed up when approaching an occupied crosswalk to see the
>people scatter.

I used to live in Chicago, where people know who wins when a person and
an auto square off. A friend of mine once watched a man get struck by a
cab. As my friend tried to comfort the man, whose compound fracture was
sticking out of his trousers, the cabbie was yelling at the man for being
in front of him.

I first had to get used to the California Stroll: a pedestrian enters the 
the street at any point on the block and doesn't even look at the traffic.
"They'll stop - I have the right of way!"
I was surprised I didn't read in the paper every day about Californians
being killed on the streets of Chicago.

One of my first days in CA I was checking out my new surrounds, standing
on the curb in the middle of the block and looking at the stores on the other
side of the street. A car stopped and the driver smilingly waved to me that
I should cross the street. They actually encourage moving targets! Ieeyyy!

Dave Fox
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