Doing the Zebra

[steepholm]

Okay, I'm doing this mostly to see whether I can work out how to post a poll, but I am interested in the results, as it's a moral quandary that has stumped me for years...

[Poll #1808368]

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[lamentables.livejournal.com]

Random, vaguely relevant thing that fascinates me:

We visited Vietnam in 1996 and eventually learned to trust the fact that, despite the apparently chaotic and ferocious traffic and the total lack of pedestrian crossings, if a pedestrian makes eye contact with a driver and strides out with confidence, the driver will give way.

Around that time, it was reported in the UK press that a policeman had also been on holiday to Vietnam, made the same observation, and thereby realised that Vietnamese immigrants in his part of the UK were prone to getting run over because making eye-contact over here generally means that the pedestrian waits.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Coincidentally, as I drove (safely) back from Cardiff this afternoon, I heard this programme about the Shared Space movement, which sounds similar in some ways.

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

Coincidentally, I went through that new Oxford Circus junction on a bus in the company of someone who is involved in - really creative - campaigning for the changes to the way we use our streets.

*searches*

Here we go. It was Ted Dewan and the campaign is the Road Witch Trial.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

That's very impressive!