That's backwards from how it is here. Our crossing guards stop vehicular traffic, and give incredibly high priority to pedestrians. There's one at the school by my house who patrols an intersection that includes a traffic light. He will routinely make lines of cars miss an entire green light to allow pedestrians to cross. If you fail to stop, they can ticket you. You'll probably also get the shit whacked out of your car with an aluminum stop sign.
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Someone is employing him, complain to them that he isn't actually doing his job
The chatting crosswalk monitor is really a good smartphone picture moment if you have one.
Cyclists are more likely to die for each km of sidewalk ridden than each km of road.
I'm interested to see a source for that
Here's an 8 year old reddit thread with links to a bunch of studies: https://www.reddit.com/r/cycling/comments/3eosnz/compilation_of_cycling_safety_studies_with_focus/
Tldr: When you ride on a sidewalk, the risk of a driver hitting you at a driveway or intersection goes up substantially. That outweighs most of the other risks of being on the road itself in those studies.
Although it's also worth pointing out that context and road design matter too. Speeds, the number of trees and shrubs by the sidewalk, and urban streets vs suburban stroads matters a lot.
There's a reason that protected bike lanes aren't just a sidewalk.
Cool thanks
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Source please.
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bicilists drive way faster on the roads, so this metric should be deaths per km/h. And there are a few more stistical biases that might be at play here.