Jaywalkers ( or whatever there called in the uk)

[snorri]

I always walk on the left.

Why?

 

[mcshroom]

As an advocate of presumed liability, I can't see the problem. The faster more dangerous mode of transport should always defer to the more vulnerable. Now we just need to sort the bullies in tin boxes out with that.

 

[andyfraser]

Why?

Why not.

 

[snorri]

Why not.

The Highway Code tells us to walk on the right.
It seems safer to me,, I like to see what's coming towards me rather than have a cyclist come up behind me unseen and unheard.

 

[Cyclopathic]

Just smash into them. After all they don't pay road tax.

 

[itsbruce]

As an advocate of presumed liability, I can't see the problem. The faster more dangerous mode of transport should always defer to the more vulnerable. Now we just need to sort the bullies in tin boxes out with that.

This. And I speak as somebody currently sporting a cast on his arm because of a ped (whom I did *not* hit) sprinting into the road. Cyclists are a bigger threat to peds than the other way round. It's a bit depressing that pedestrians in London have become quite nervous of cyclists and are gratefully surprised when you give them their due priority on a Zebra crossing.

Of course, it's annoying when pedestrians tune us out the same way drivers do. They look at us, look through us, step out into the road anyway. But we have the advantage.

 

[Kempston]

In my experience as both a 'ped' and a cyclist, as a collective they're both as bad as each other. Too many cyclist don't give a s**t about red lights and crossings (I have nearly been killed more than once by some ignorant moron on a bike who thinks the red light didn't apply to him) and too many pedestrians don't pay enough attention when crossing or walking on the road when they shouldn't.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Given their propensity to cross roads while absorbed in using some handheld device I call them iPeds™.

GC

 

[w00hoo_kent]

I've always been quite partial to pedlemmings. But yes, you just have to take care around them and presume vehicles you can't see through (buses, vans, etc) might have one step out from the edge of them at any moment,