This seems like such a simple solution: Stop your car when you see a pedestrian in a crosswalk. That the state Legislature had to require drivers to do this says a lot about how impatient and inconsiderate we are when we get behind the wheel.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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I'm confused, as I thought this was the law in NJ for many years.
Well, maybe. Depends what happens on the other side of the proposition.I've had pedestrians, usually young adults, making their way across lanes of traffic when fifty feet away there was a signal with a cross walk. Guess they were being \”humorous\”. As a driver, I'm always watching for pedestrians and bicyclists that are following the \”rules\”. Regardless of what they do, I believe that should I have an accident with them, I'll lose no matter what they were doing. With the gooferment, I'm sure that they are \”solving a problem\” that doesn't need solving. And, I am absolutely sure there are big fines, surcharges, penalties, and fees associated with it. I can see the plainclothes cop hiding behind a bush near a crosswalk to entrap a sucker. (Yeah, I know, it couldn't POSSIBLY happen here in America!)