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Originally Posted by spare_wheel
As is arguing that USAnian jaywalking laws were not created for and by advocates of motoring. The term does not even exist in europe.

BBC News - Jaywalking: How the car industry outlawed crossing the road
So in Europe, "jaywalking" is called something else in some other language. BFD!

In my experience, anti-jaywalking (or whatever it is called) regulations are enforced more rigidly in Western Europe than in it is in any Eastern or Midwestern U.S. city.
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