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Not sure I get this one. So if a bicyclist is in the bike lane on a street, and I'm driving in the lane next to the bike lane, I have to move over one lane to the left or risk being ticketed? It says "whenever possible" so I guess that's subjective.

Good to see that I can legally jaywalk now unless it's "unsafe", which of course is also subjective.
 
aquabliss said:
Not sure I get this one. So if a bicyclist is in the bike lane on a street, and I'm driving in the lane next to the bike lane, I have to move over one lane to the left or risk being ticketed? It says "whenever possible" so I guess that's subjective.
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I don't think there's an objective way to write a law like this, and I think it makes sense to take action on reducing death/injury on the streets. It's by far the biggest public safety issue in Irvine in terms of risk of injury or death.
 
qwerty said:
Regarding jaywalking - it’s pretty objective if you ask me.

If your made it across, it was safe
If you didn’t make it across, it was unsafe :)
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My teacher in Asia used to teach us.
Pedestrian has right of the way, until you become a corpse.
 
Hugo Township said:
I don't think there's an objective way to write a law like this, and I think it makes sense to take action on reducing death/injury on the streets. It's by far the biggest public safety issue in Irvine in terms of risk of injury or death.
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I've driven in many places in California and I have to say the most careless and entitled pedestrians are in Irvine. They literally do not look at the road, they cross when it's not even a crosswalk causing unnecessary congestion, or they look at their phones while J walking without looking at the traffic conditions. I cannot count how many times in Diamond Jamboree where pedestrians pop out of nowhere in my blind spot and try to cross in front of me while looking at their phones.

I don't know if there is a law here where crossing the street means you cannot look at your phone, but they sure as hell should make that a law. It's a law in Hawaii and the government would make tons of money from simply giving those tickets out.
 
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That isn't really my experience, and I live and work in Irvine. I agree that would be frustrating. I guess my concern is that we try to walk in Irvine (I'm generally too risk-averse to ride my bike alongside 50+mph traffic), and it takes just one driver error to end it all.
 
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