So let's see what the suggestions are:
- Remove markings (such as crosswalks)
- Remove signals (such as pedestrian crossings)
- Remove curbs (so that cars can, and will, drive on what is supposed to be sidewalk)
- Where there are sidewalks, block them with cafes (so that pedestrians must walk in the road)
As a frequent pedestrian, on the already pedestrian-hostile streets of the U.S., many of which do not have sidewalks, I have zero faith that this would make drivers behave better. Quite the opposite.
This is the land where the very concept of walking somewhere, or riding a bike, is utterly foreign and incomprehensible to most people. It's the land of selfishness, where anyone else on the road is an inconvenience 'in your way'.
We need more controls, not less. And, ideally, solid barriers to separate the death-machines from the living people. They should have to go around the places where there are people, instead of barreling carelessly through them.
This is the land where the very concept of walking somewhere, or riding a bike, is utterly foreign and incomprehensible to most people. It's the land of selfishness, where anyone else on the road is an inconvenience 'in your way'.
We need more controls, not less. And, ideally, solid barriers to separate the death-machines from the living people. They should have to go around the places where there are people, instead of barreling carelessly through them.