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Wtf is this nonsense, america?
Police doing what the police were tasked to do from the start.
part of the reason why the country is so car-dependent is specifically to fuck over non-rich non-white people.
If you can't afford driving everywhere they've set it up so you have to break the law to get where you're going, and of course the highways were built through poor black neighbourhoods downtown so now most people are forced to live in suburbs where it's barely possible to walk in the first place.
This absolutely makes no sense. North america suburbs and neighbors that have no sidewalks are generally low volume and low speed streets. These are "community areas" IMO and should have a pedestrian orientation first and foremost.
On these types of neighborhood streets pedestrian are and should be more then allowed to utilize the street either as a pedestrian walking or a pedestrian on a bike.
As a individual in a car when you drive through a neighbourhood street you should adjust you driving as if there are a bunch of children potentially on the street.
I find the trouble is in north america is we don't classify our roadways well and definitely don't differentiate well between a street, a road, a high speed road, and a highway.
This is why we get this weird over-engineering of suburban streets that look like roads where people want to drive at high speeds inside the suburb. And then at the exact same time we get roads (that should have been roads) that are a weird merging between a road and a street (a stroad) all around cities.
The only kind of road in an american planners toolkit is a stroad.
4+ extra wide lanes of traffic doing at least 10 over the speed limit. Every business is allowed direct access to the stroad. Public transit is forced to use the car lanes and pedestrians may wait up to 5 minutes at each crossing.