I’ve written and presented extensively on racist origins and continued abuse of jaywalking laws. It’s encouraging to see California start the process of removing what has always been an intentionally bad law. Jaywalking was initially a crime lobbied for by the car industry, and is seen by some as a law that unfairly targets people … Continue reading California in 2023 Decriminalizes Jaywalking
Brilliant comedy routine by Hannibal Buress Humor helps underscore a very real problem with Jaywalking laws, which any historian should be able to tell you: What sets jaywalking apart is that it never should have been against the law in the first place. City streets were meant for foot traffic and horses from ancient times … Continue reading Jaywalking is a Fantasy Crime
Calling it their “Week of Cone”, residents of SF reduced the threat to the city from renegade “driverless” vehicles by gently placing a traffic cone to completely shut them down. It had all the hallmarks of the extremely successful SFMTrA movement of 2016. As you may recall, Tesla’s “driverless” software back in 2016 murdered two … Continue reading Trivial Hacks Disable Driverless Taxi Infrastructure
It’s been documented extensively how the Nixon administration coldly and cruelly used “freeway” planning for cars to destroy non-white neighborhoods across America. Many don’t realize an “Eisenhower” interstate system was in fact spearheaded by VP Nixon, who later unleashed wrecking balls and bulldozers on black neighborhoods in a racist campaign to destroy non-white power in … Continue reading American Cities Finally Start to Acknowledge “Death Corridors” Were No Accident