Because thanks to how cars are constructed, you can’t see if nobody is coming in all directions, all the time.

I’ve nearly been right-hooked plenty of times while crossing a street on foot by a driver who didn’t even bother looking to the right while waiting to turn.

That happened just this past weekend while I was walking up Cedar St to Highland Ave with my pregnant wife. Had they been a little harder on the gas pedal we’d be injured or dead right now.

I see folks blow the crossing at Cedar & the Community Path daily, and they can very clearly see folks on the Path coming up to the crossing.

Common sense quite simply doesn’t exist when driving for a host of reasons, so the smartest thing is to heavily regulate the most dangerous behaviors, even if it seems foolish sometimes.