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1. murph :amiga: (murph@hackers.town)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 21:53:41 JST murph :amiga:

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   • John Socks

   @John Around here, and in Pennsylvania, it seems that older people don't want to walk on the sidewalks because of the seams, or the unevenness of the cutouts for driveways, and the intersections. I don't understand it, if there's a sidewalk, I'll gladly use it. If you can't deal with the slight incline from a driveway, how in the world are you aware enough to avoid traffic?

   • John Socks (john@socks.masto.host)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 21:53:43 JST John Socks

     As a side note on the whole jaywalking thing, I'll mention something else that I can't really understand.

     I live in a hilly part of Los Angeles where people will walk for exercise. We have perfectly good sidewalks. There are people who won't use them. For some reason they prefer to walk outside the parked cars and next to traffic on what are really narrow streets.

     The only thing I can think is that walking on sidewalks and then crossing streets, would take more attention on their part.