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BlueCoatYellowBoots t1_j13uojw wrote

Reply to comment by my_monkeys_fly in People walking down darl roads in dark clothes by hstac09

Pedestrians are supposed to walk against traffic, but H highway is one of the worst roadways to walk. Vehicles are going 55+mph, there's barely any or no shoulder at all, lots of bridges and low spots with water that produce insane amounts of fog at times. Those crazies that walk to their cult church on the weekends have become a real problem, they walk with traffic and sometimes two abreast. Rarely, I'll see someone jogging or cycling on H as well, fuck those people too.

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vainamo- t1_j14y60f wrote

Sometimes there's like a whole family walking abreast. I used to live in another area with these people, and they will keep doing it until the county is forced to put in sidewalks out there.

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BlueCoatYellowBoots t1_j156mmo wrote

I mean, there's another possible ending to the story. I'm not advocating for it, but I won't be bummed if it happens.

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vainamo- t1_j15e4fo wrote

Eh, I'd be bummed if someone got hurt. They wouldn't see it as a reason to change their religion and start driving on the sabbath. They'd just see it as another way the "world" is against them, and they'll just keep walking on the road with even more assurance that it's their destiny to do so.

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my_monkeys_fly t1_j14faoa wrote

Sorry, I misspoke. They were walking WITH traffic. Where I came up behind them. Had a brain spasm and not on the side, we are talking a foot from the center line, at midnight. If someone had been in the other lane, we would have had no place to go except off the dropoff

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Television_Wise t1_j16lk20 wrote

>Rarely, I'll see someone jogging or cycling on H as well, fuck those people too.

Yeah, fuck those people! Going out in their neighborhood to get some fresh air and exercise, the nerve of them! Don't they know SUV rights come first?

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BlueCoatYellowBoots t1_j16v48v wrote

Lol neighborhood. It's a 2 lane highway, no shoulder and a 55mph speed limit. The farm roads are iffy, but H highway is suicide for pedestrians. I get it, r/fuckcars and all that, but people have to get to work from rural areas somehow.

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Television_Wise t1_j1761or wrote

Yeah, I used to live on a 2-lane rural highway. I know what they're like.

>I get it, r/fuckcars and all that, but people have to get to work from rural areas somehow.

I get it, but people have a right to leave their house and exercise where they live. Cursing at them and blaming them for the poor infrastructure is nonsensical. They're not any more responsible for the lack of sidewalks or road shoulder than you.

Dealing with other kinds of traffic--whether that's car, pedestrian, cyclist, horses, or tractors is part of life and part of using the transportation system. Hating everyone who uses a different means of transport than you because it mildly inconveniences you is beyond childish and selfish.

Jogging and cycling on the road is literally what it's there for, when sidewalks and cycling paths don't exist alongside.

It's not suicide for them, it's homicide when someone kills them because it was just too darn inconvenient to drive in a way thats safe for all forms of traffic and arrive home 5 minutes later.

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