01-29-2019, 01:40 PM
(01-29-2019, 10:26 AM)Canard Wrote: […]
But we can’t even ever have that disucssion, because the instant anyone ever brings it up, they just go “blah blah blah, it doesn’t hurt anyone, cars are evil, blah.”
[…]
For me, the objection is to constantly bringing up distracted pedestrians in the context of another discussion. You can have a TV news item on police blitzing drivers who are using their cellphones, and at some point they’ll bring up distracted pedestrians. But in that context, it’s an irrelevance — the discussion is about drivers being a menace to others, not pedestrians who are putting themselves in harm’s way. I thought there was some case of a bicyclist getting killed due to grossly negligent driving (by any reasonable person’s evaluation, not sure about what courts had to say about it), and the discussion was all about how their clothing was 1% less reflective than it ideally should have been.
For my part, I’m totally fine with you bringing up the subject, especially in the context of the park, where pedestrians not watching can be a hazard to people on bicycles especially at busy times. It helps that I know you bicycle, so you’re not one of these people who just thinks everybody should get out of the way of cars, but even without that, your observations would be valid.