http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: jaywalking - Recent Topics en Sun, 17 May 2026 18:25:04 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12217#post-142439 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 13:17:41 +0000 Greenroofer 142439@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Interesting piece on BBC today <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26073797">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26073797</a></p> <p>...much in comon with more recent encouragement of cycle helmets, perhaps? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=11194#post-125769 Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:56:14 +0000 cb 125769@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-invention-of-jaywalking-was-a-massive-shaming-campa-858926923">http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-invention-of-jaywalking-was-a-massive-shaming-campa-858926923</a></p> <p>"<br /> "before the city street could be physically reconstructed to accommodate motor vehicles, it had first to be socially reconstructed as a modern thoroughfare." And that social reconstruction meant redefining who belonged on the street, by poking fun at those who were seen as unwanted. This ridicule would show up in newspaper editorials, in verbal confrontations between motorists and pedestrians on the street, in American classrooms, and through public shaming by police officers and other authority figures.<br /> " </p>