Comments on: Fines for “Careless Walking” – A Good Idea for DC?

By: satan

satan — Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:56 +0000

How about no more laws regulating stupid sh*t and give people a little room to breathe, and let people screw themselves and others up from time to time without overdramatic legislative overreactions to everything? And, make the death penalty for corporations legal.

By: Sharoin

Sharoin — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:07:44 +0000

It’s the careless walkers that text or talk through the intersection when they light is green for the cars that are going to get hit.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:21:54 +0000

We’re always just one more government regulation away from our perfect world, aren’t we?

By: jen

jen — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:38:02 +0000

until they start enforcing the ‘hands-free phone/no texting” laws for CARS, which i see violated multiple times a day, every single solitary day that i walk, they’d better not try to ticket me for being a pedestrian on the phone. see, the difference here is, i’m not a two-ton object that can kill someone.

By: Linda

Linda — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:41:06 +0000

The notion that the government ought to criminalize even the smallest mistake is simply absurd.

By: Patrick Murphy

Patrick Murphy — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:34:07 +0000

Are y’all crazy? With all the vicious assaults we’ve seen lately you want the cops to focus on nannying clueless, texting, pedestrians??

By: frickorfrack

frickorfrack — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:33:18 +0000

“Lead, follow, or get the F!*@K out of the way”

By: boastful

boastful — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:59:18 +0000

if someone hit my child so hard she flew three feet and shrugged in response, i would probably black out and beat them senseless.

By: PhilGP

PhilGP — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:45:25 +0000

These laws are sometimes intended to protect drivers. If a driver hits a careless walker then the driver could well suffer emotional trauma.

Careless walker epidemics cause drivers to drive more slowly thus slowing overall traffic flow.

Young people these days are protected from learning how to respect traffic. Areas near schools are so adapted to slowing traffic that a child couldn’t possibly learn the risks involved when crossing the street. Take for example 34th St, just south of Reno Rd in NW. The traffic lights are synchronized such that traffic on 34th St and any side streets cannot excede 5 mph. And this is from at least 6:00 AM to 8:00 PM. I can’t suggest changing these precautions, just citing their potential consequences.

By: Scooter

Scooter — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:12:55 +0000

“You can’t fix stupid.” They can make all the laws they want to protect ourselves from being stupid, but it will just go on.

That texting sign should also include taking phone calls while riding as well. Last weekend, this woman on a bike was on the phone chatting away. She was swerving all over the path and I felt was a danger to her and anyone else who around her. if you need to chat, stop and get off the bike.