Current twitter drama is Europeans confidently declaring that they don't need to drive or use overpriced public transport to get to the MetLife stadium for the World Cup; they will simply walk down the highway to get there. Girl it's New Jersey. They're gonna splatter you for fun.
If you manage to get on the turnpike before the cops stop you, a soccer mom is gonna do the Jersey slide in a RAV4 and turn your entire group into a wet speedbump
this? you want to walk down this????
please say sike
IT'S NOT A FUCKING STREET IT'S AN 8-LANE SUPERHIGHWAY THAT GOES OVER A SWAMP
I sure fucking hope the public safety people in World Cup cities and even nearby cities are planning for this. They probably are, I know a lot of other things they ARE planning for, but traffic safety is not my area or even close enough that I'd hear what the traffic safety people are up to.
Traffic safety public health professionals please save us. This is terrifying. Even with planning some people are probably going to die.
Dear Europeans, this is a country where road maintenance workers, who have the right of way and neon vests and like a million signs and flashing lights to protect them, still regularly die working on and beside highways. You are not better than them. If you think you are, you very well may die.
Europeans trying to walk places here get picked up by strangers when they get seen wandering in shock beside a highway. I’m recalling a specific story of a woman trying to walk from her hotel to the location of a meeting in Texas, where the highways criss-cross through every major city and make it impossible to walk anywhere. The hotel desk clerk ended up sending someone after her when she hadn’t returned to the hotel after 5 minutes of seeing what she’d have to walk through. She was terrified until this stranger pulled over and told her to get in the car.
Jaywalking is a thing here. Car companies lobbied for it so they couldn’t beheld liable over pedestrian deaths, and now we hold pedestrians liable and thus un-payable when they get struck outside a crosswalk. You WILL get hit by someone going 90 in a 75, who will think it’s your fault. And the court will agree with them, so if you survive you will get no money from the driver’s insurance, and if you don’t survive, then your family is fully on the hook for your funeral.
And that’s before getting into what happens if a cop pulls over and talks to you! Fines, tickets, or even arrest. All of which means you have to stay here longer for your legal case to move through the court system.
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