Road design, safety and Vision Zero

[danbrotherston]

The difference is geese aren't intimidated by drivers refusing to yield to them. You can intimidate a pedestrian into not crossing by refusing to stop, but a goose doesn't give a shit and will happily walk out and fuck up your vehicle. People literally have more respect for geese than other humans.

Something that perhaps people don't know about these geese is that they will actually move if you get close, and they move fast. In fact, I'd argue that they are more intimidated by drivers than people that jay-walk.

Duckings, on the other hand, I have no idea.

Jay-walker is a slur, but the suggestion that people crossing legally, mid block or technically illegally on a countdown timer because our laws haven’t been updated or illegally against the light, are less intimidated by drivers is...is either playing into the toxic dominance belief on our roads (if you mean literally intimidated), which could be true—I don’t know for sure, or the common missbelief that peds aren’t watching or don’t care to notice traffic which is almost always false in my experience.