If you drive, you need to read this article.

[upstart_crow]

This is everything, EVERYTHING, I have been trying for over a decade to tell people with driving privileges about: how underfunded public transportation, inadequate facilities, and ableist street design endangers lives. Only, because I'm a guilty of being a non-driving adult, few people pay any attention to me

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[maladaptive]

I saw this, and I think what infuriated me most was the response I saw from some people. "Well, that's why you shouldn't jaywalk!" or "We can't put up a bunch of red lights, that would inconvenience traffic for the sake of a few people." I grew up next to a pedestrian light in a pedestrian heavy area, I think I've stopped at it... twice. In 12 years. So very, very inconvenient, lemme tell ya.

What amazes me is, even in "pedestrian friendly" places, these things happen. Miami was just ranked 8th most walkable city in the US, and I want to know what these people are smoking when Brickell doesn't even have crossings because of construction (they expect us to walk a half mile to get to a crossing! In flipping downtown Miami!) THAT'S what a walkable city looks like. And we're serious about increasing walkability/bikability, at least in government positions (but FDOT likes to sit with their thumbs up the agency's collective butt). I've been paying a lot more attention to these conversation since starting my job, and they make me want to cry. Poor design abounds because we're all about moving a high volume of cars (and we can't even do that properly).