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Is it the fault of a 100- to 250-pound pedestrian or the 2,500-pound or greater car?
Life here won’t change without dramatic reform.
Julia Keller’s article should have been about how to resolve the issue, not about whose fault it is.
The answer is simple.
Adopt the California pedestrian law of fining drivers $250 if they don’t stop when a pedestrian is in the crosswalk and a major fine for repeat offenders.
Cars stop in California when a pedestrian even looks like he or she is going to get into the walkway or onto the street. There is not the road-rally atmosphere that there is here in Chicago.
