Jaywalking laws help nobody

They’re meant to keep pedestrians safe. Instead, they perpetuate car dominance.

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Supposedly, jaywalking laws save lives. Pedestrian lives, specifically. That’s what we’re told anyway. But their real accomplishment is to ensure the continuance of car dominance on public roads, which was a goal going back to when jaywalking laws first came into being in the early…