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I followed my mother jaywalking into a busy intersection because she was my ride home from a square dancing fest at my high school.
The PE teacher's robots wanted me dead.
#dream#this is like the third dream this year with machines trying to kill me#jaywalking#mother#family#square dance#square dancing#high school#school#pe teacher#pe#robot#death tw#teacher
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Streets [in the 1920s-'30s] weren't well organized, and didn't have features like crosswalks, turn lanes, and traffic signals. You had streetcars, horses, pedestrians, and the new kids on the block: the automobile, all mixing on increasingly crowded streets.
The biggest conflicts were between pedestrians and drivers. And the results were often deadly. Pedestrians, including children, were being struck and killed by cars. In those early days, motorists were held responsible, and the public was horrified by all of the deaths. You have to remember that, in cities, kids played in the street. People couldn't comprehend the idea that you'd have to keep kids off of the streets all day long to keep them safe.
Everyone realized that speed was the real problem. cars could go [much] faster than the flow of traffic in 1920s cities. Some cities wanted to do something about it -- something more than just speed limits. They wanted to mandate speed governors on all cars to ensure they couldn't go more than, say, 20 or 30 miles per hour within city limits.
It was at this point that the auto industry realized they needed to fight for the right to own the street.
Should jaywalking be legal? YouTube. 20 November, 2020 (human-edited from a transcript of auto-generated captions)
I really think this may be a way to create walkable cities without banning cars altogether, for the people for whom cars are an accessibility need -- without discriminating against those who simply cannot use cars.
I mean, if folks were thinking up this solution 100 years ago, surely we have the tech to make it work today. Right?
#walkable cities#accessibility#YouTube video link#jaywalking#word invented by the Auto Lobby#an excuse to arrest POC#<- discussed in the full video
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moon is an outlaw confirmed
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Jay walkin'
#furry#furry sfw#furry art#comic#pun#jaywalking#bluejay#fuck the police#overly literal#amiraallis comic#art
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jaywalking is a moral good in the eternal crusade against cars
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jay is just a joke
#ed walker#edna walker#jay walker#lego ninjago#ninjago#ninjago jay#jaywalking#yes i drew old men with yuppi face#lego#ninjago lego#ghostxalien
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Cincinnati Surrendered To The Automobile When Jaywalking Was Outlawed
How many Cincinnatians subscribed to Popular Mechanics magazine in 1912? And how many of those subscribers recognized, in the September issue, a tiny article on Page 414 that laid out the future of the Queen City? It all seemed so innocent:
“The city pedestrian who cares not for traffic regulations at street corners, but strays all over the street, crossing in the middle of the block, or attempting to save time by choosing a diagonal route across a street intersection instead of adhering to the regular crossing, is designated as a ‘jay walker’ in Kansas City. Kansas City recently adopted a new ordinance for the control of foot traffic as well as vehicles, and ‘jay walking’ is to be prevented as rigidly as ‘jay driving.’”
That squib appeared adjacent to another brief item on how the brand-new town of Speedway, Indiana allowed only motorized vehicles on its streets, banning anything pulled by horses. In combination, the two articles sounded the death knell for a way of life that had existed for millennia.
Look at the illustrations that grace the old books about Cincinnati. There is no such thing as jaywalking. The streets were owned and enjoyed by the people. Pedestrians share the road with wheeled vehicles, crossing wherever convenient, even stopping in the middle of the street to chat. Horse-drawn carriages and wagons hauled passengers and freight. Men pulling handcarts and pushing wheelbarrows dodge the throng. The only motorized vehicles were the electric street cars, and they were confined to their tracks.
During election season, Cincinnati’s streets filled with torchlit political parades. On at least one occasion, a parade filled Vine Street from Fourth Street to McMicken with chanting men waving flaming brands, lighting the clouds above with a rosy glow. When any dignitary showed up in town, they were expected to speechify from their hotel balcony and people thronged the street below, halting traffic as they cheered. People crossing the street from any direction weren’t “jay walking.” They were just “walking.” The automobile changed all that.
Horse-drawn vehicles and electric streetcars killed a fair number of people, but the motor car quickly notched more than a hundred fatalities and many more injuries every year. Local media often blamed the victims. The Cincinnati Post [8 January 1916] piled on:
“Fourth-st. is the mecca of Cincinnati’s jay walkers. Most of the jay-walking is done between Vine and Race-sts. The other day we counted 20 persons crossing the street at different points at one time – and none was using a cross-walk. Fortunately accidents are rare on this street because of the extreme care exercised by autoists.”
It appears not to have occurred to the writer that this behavior, just five years previous, would have been considered normal.
The hammer landed in 1917. Cincinnati joined the ranks of other auto-infested cities that criminalized jaywalking. The new law went into effect in May of that year, restricting automobiles to no more than 8 miles per hour in the business district and 15 miles per hour in residential districts. For the first time, pedestrians were restricted to sidewalks and crosswalks. Pedestrians – literally – fought the new law. According to the Post [23 May 1917]:
“Theodore Mitchell, 38, agent, 631 Maple-av, is the first person to be arrested on a charge of jay-walking since the new traffic ordinance went into effect. Traffic Patrolman [Edward] Schraffenberger charged Mitchell attempting to make a short cut at Fifth and Walnut streets. When reminded of his mistake, Mitchell became angry, Schraffenberger said. Mitchell, charged with disorderly conduct and violating the traffic ordinance, was cited to appear in court Thursday.”
If you’d asked the cops, however, they would unanimously aver that the chief violators were women. The Post [21 May 1917] quoted Police Lieutenant Charles Wolsefer:
“The women are awful. They just don’t pay any attention at all. Just take a look at them crossing on Race-st.”
The reporter did so, and counted 48 jaywalkers, of whom 37 were women. A few days later, another Post reporter followed another policeman on patrol who confronted 25 jaywalkers, of which only two were men.
Among the first arrested was Miss Ella Bright of 538 Howell Avenue, Clifton, a teacher at Woodward High School. Miss Bright did not care for the attitude of the city policeman who accosted her. According to the Cincinnati Enquirer [7 June 1917]:
“She declared she had been upbraided unduly by an officer because she crossed the street in a manner which was a violation of the traffic laws after alighting from a street car.”
In August of that year, Mrs. John Mongan, 4217 Glenway Avenue, Price Hill, was arrested for striking a police officer who grabbed her arm as she executed a “Dutch Cut” (diagonal jaywalking) across the intersection at Sixth & Race.
Former U.S. President William Howard Taft, then on the law faculty at Yale, was visiting his hometown that year and blithely jogged across Sixth Street near Main, only to be corralled by Officer Joseph Schindler, who gave the law professor a little legal lesson.
The Post even enlisted its “boy reporter,” 12-year-old Freddy Printz, to test the city’s ability to enforce the new jaywalking regulations. On 7 July 1917, Freddy reported his fruitless attempts to get bawled out by a police officer. Despite blatantly jaywalking at five different locations, he only earned a polite reprimand from one officer.
While the local constabulary was doing their best to enforce the new laws, the automobiles were merciless. On 21 May 1918, the Post reported on the 25th traffic fatality of the year. The victim, a 12-year-old girl, was the twelfth child killed by an automobile that year.
Curiously, although Cincinnati outlawed jaywalking, the city had omitted one very important detail that might have contributed to compliance with the new law. A letter signed only “Chicagoan” appeared in the Post on 13 June 1917. The writer suggested that, like other cities attempting to get pedestrians to cross at intersections, Cincinnati should assist pedestrians by painting white lines on the street to mark approved pedestrian crossing paths. Cincinnati’s mandatory crosswalks were unmarked!
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Just watched a kirby failboat video and this thought has plagued me forever so I will force it upon all of you:
Who WOULDN'T jaywalk?
#failboat#shitpost#legends of avantris#once upon a witchlight#jaywalking#stardust rhapsody#beneath dark wings#shroud over saltmarsh#icebound#root rpg#prime#curse of strahdanya
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to carry, take, wear
llevar
“What?! carry the jaguar?! Okay, but not without giving him a jab first, so he’ll be unconscious.”
I don’t like waiting for traffic lights when carrying something heavy, so I’ll jaywalk.
He carries a skateboard.
Él lleva un monopatín.
Picture by Hafiz Issadeen on Flickr
#to carry#to take#to wear#carry#take#wear#llevar#jaywalk#jaywalking#jaguar#jab#spanish#vocabulary#vocab#español#hint#mem#mnemonic#wotd#word of the day
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Would they jaywalk?
Asking the important questions here lol
Johan - Nope, he's a law abiding citizen :p
Peewit - Yes, without hesitation. But Johan prevents him from doing so half the time
The King - Yes, absentmindedly. His mind is often elsewhere
King Gerard - No, he zones out while waiting his turn to cross the street to the point where he misses his chance and has to wait more, and it turns into an annoying cycle for him
Princess Sabina - Yes, as a form of rebellion
Princess Anne - Only when she's daydreaming. Both her and the King had to be saved from being run over a couple times in their life because their mind was elsewhere
Maximin - No, he'd begrudgingly wait, impatient as hell
Sir Thierry - He'd get too distracted by his loving wife to even jaywalk
Count Tremaine - Hell no, he waits his turn like he should lol
Old Rachel - Yes, if she's in a hurry to get somewhere
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♡ HAPPY BIRTHJAY ♡
Asterisk is an ass and didn't want to be drawn but I have prevailed
Art © Angelos | Angelos @ inkblot | starlitreverie @ tumblr / twitter
Character belongs to Jay | @jaywalking
Please do not remove caption above, repost, use, or edit, thanks!
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"The Sign Hater"
Case study of bad coloring decisions. They have colorful pants ... "Which was the style of the time". Now they don't. And slight hiccup here:
#Archie Comics#Betty Cooper#Veronica Lodge#Fashion#Jaywalking#Dan Decarlo#1967#Breaking the Law#Signs signs everywhere are signs#Sleeve
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the myth of jaywalking
#tiktok#bikes vs cars#jay walker#road safety#urban design#urban planning#road rage#jaywalking#not just bikes
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Absolutely devastated to find out 'jaywalking' is the English term for when you cross when the light's red or there's no pedestrian cross. All this time I thought it was some sort of dance, like 'moonwalking.' Clearly, I was wrong.
#in my defence#in my language we literally just say to cross in red#much more straightforward and intuitive#english#english language#lost in translation#jaywalking#moonwalking#I blame Michael Jackson
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Y/n: leo, you gotta stop this this jaywalking!
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Leo: messing with dat gay sh*t?
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Y/n: WHAT GAY SH*T??? THE LAW!?!
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