Jaywalking: should be illegal in UK

I see peds and cyclists listening to ipods in the middle of the road all the time, bunch of fucking morans.

It wouldn't be policed, like seat belts, it is about greater awareness with a little fine as an incentive.

Thanks for the kind words.

I agree, awareness should be heightened not dulled.

Chew ma grits dickhead.

How do you give out fines without policing something? Laws have to be policed otherwise they are not a law, they are just a suggestion, an idea, a philosophy.

You might like bending over and getting raped by everyone that wants to take our rights away but don't drag everyone else into it with your blanket laws just to make your own life a little easier.

Now shit off you retard!

Laws that are about safety are rarely policed. There is an awareness campaign, there is a fine imposed. a few people get done for publicity purposes and then it is forgotten about. That is how they all work, with the hope that the new awareness (and the false fear of getting caught) will deter people in the future.

Bearing that in mind then, what would be the point in your new law?

Also, deterents rarely work anyway. Take speed cameras for instance. Have people stopped speeding because of said cameras? Nope. Do deaths still occur from speeding? Yes. Are people about to step on their accelerator suddenly going to stop and think, "oh, I better not go fast I might get caught"

It would be the same with this law, but the unfortunate thing about all these laws is a tighter grip or the impression of a tighter grip on what people are and arent allowed to do.

Face facts, your law is stupid and it would prevent nothing. It would be about as stupid a law as stopping scooter riders from zipping in and out of traffic. Would you vote for that one?..... thought not... it's the same difference though. What other users of the road do annoys you and what you do on the road annoys other road users. Inventing laws to counteract stupidity is not the solution.

Now, lets have an end to this retarded argument as you've clearly lost it by quite a large comment margin.

erm, had your cocks felt at the airports lately, ladies?

sociopath

+1. People with this mentality scare me.

@OP: A law for crossing the road is a pretty terrible idea. Like a previous responder said, raise awareness through education, not by regulation.

In response to your comment about seat belt laws, in my experience they are more commonly used to provide police with a reason to stop your vehicle and then unlawfully search it (or try to, at least). Not to get into a debate about how much the police suck or anything, just thought I'd put it out there.

My bike is my main mode of transportation, and has been for 5 years. In a way I agree with cyclists going to some road awareness lecture (At least in my town)

The township recently put up a ton of "Share the road" signs.
And the affect it had was now all these dipshits who "rarely" cycle think they own the road. And has had the effect of increased accidents and even deaths here.

IMO though, through experience, intersections can be more dangerous than crossing a road away from an intersection.
Many idiots love to blow through yellow and red lights at top speed.

I've never been hit by an automobile, I use common sense.
All cyclists just need to remember one thing, against an automobile, you will always lose.

I agree with you. But the fact is that jaywalking is illegal in some countries and I was hoping to find out what the residents of those countries thought of the law. For example do you resent the seatbelt law?

I personally would love to see the people reclaim the streets. But whilst we do have ridiculously congested roads full of cars, motorbikes and bikes, I for one would like to not create any accidents. Motorcyclists don't ride the pavements, pedestrians should only use the road at designated crossing places.

Please remember that I am only talking about the heavily congested roads in London.

I totally agree.

This has been quite enlightening. Thank you everyone (including the trolls).

Jaywalking is a crime Here yet people still do it, I didn't think it was possible

But hang on, you say illegal in the UK, you don't ask for comments from people in countries where it is illegal. Stop back-peddling. You've seen how people have reacted and now you want to dress your argument up like you actually agree with the people disagreeing with you.

As far as motorcyclists riding the pavements this is true, but cyclists do ride the pavement in lots of cities so your defined line for sticking to where you are designated to walk or ride is, and always has been blurred. Cyclists annoy the crap out of me on the pavements. I am a cyclst but I stick to the road and don't hop on the pavement to go through red lights ahead of cars just because I am small enough to, which is akin to you zipping through traffic when everyone else is at a standstill.

Keep talking so you get the last word if you like but I will always be able to counter this ridiculous argument, as will anyone else, I suspect.

LOL U HAV NEVER HAD A BIKE HAV U HAHAHAHA FFS U WANA GET AHEAD GET A BIKE sounds to me that ure realy a frustrated biker buy one soon as u can then u will no y they do it lol bikes rule omg u havent got a clue

I asked the question from the beginning, should it be illegal in UK? Beacuse it isn't at the moment. And I asked for people where it is illegal to give me their views. Instead I got a load of Brit-trolls not reading properly taking the standard knee-jerk reaction without any thought whatsoever.

There was no back-peddling as there was no conclusion in the first place.

Fucked up the quotage: just this...

I asked the question from the beginning, should it be illegal in UK? Beacuse it isn't at the moment. And I asked for people where it is illegal to let me know their views.

Instead I got a load of Brit-trolls not reading properly taking the standard knee-jerk reaction without any thought whatsoever.

There was no back-peddling as there was no conclusion in the first place.

The only thing I knew is that I did not want to run someone over.