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Originally Posted by DNSB
I was one of the people who honked at her as she danced off the curb totally oblivious to 2 lanes of traffic turning left on a green left turn signal.
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Take a look at photographs of streets taken prior to circa 1910. Pedestrians, and stalls for selling things littered the road.
In most places, it was only after 1920 that pedestrains lost the right of way. A change in laws that was funded by the AAA and automobile manufacturers, becuase they didn't want the didn't want the bad PR of deaths and injuries that result when people walk into moving vehicles.
Amber