Just Another, and Another, and Another Pedestrian Killed on State Street

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Hope no one's invoked "thoughts and prayers". The mindset of "I'm only going to buck the system if the system supports me" makes sense from the inside. Massachusetts overall has a strong sentiment of us-vs-them from government to citizen anyway.

For the risk averse, do not jump the roped off road shoulder and instead cross at the crosswalk per local law?

You are victim-blaming, stop it. Telling people to just act in the "correct" way 100% of the time does not work, it's just a way for engineers and designers to deflect responsibility for design failure. The existing crossing is too far away to be useful, hence why so many people take the shortcut. This has been known for years:

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/5/29/an-open-letter...

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/10/14/designing-str...

Walking in a straight line from a library entrance to the library parking lot should be lethal.

Should *not be lethal.

Btw, I saw some of your older posts against car-centric design, and I really love this one about how cyclists are effectively geofenced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35274702 (9 months ago)

> Should not be lethal.*

oh gosh I didn't notice that

> I really love this one about how cyclists are effectively geofenced

thanks! I'm in a much more bike friendly city now. although that may change again soon ..

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