If I walk where there are stoplights, someone surely will cross the street against traffic. Nowhere else have I seen such consistently stupid, arrogant behavior. Is it only San Diego? All California? I do wonder. This type of jaywalking isn’t occasional. Every time I venture out, someone strolls into oncoming traffic.
The gentleman in the Featured Image is an offender seen today. He and I walked along 30th Street in North Park—he ahead of me and later behind. Oddly, we would both arrive at Target, but by different routes. At either Lincoln or Polk (not sure which), I crossed to the other side of 30th with a walk sign. That meant green light for the cars going in the same direction as me. Continuing along 30th, he ignored the don’t walk sign and brazenly crossed into oncoming traffic, meaning cars proceeding on a green light.
What kind of death wish behavior is this? I suppose someone could ignore the green light for the other direction if there were no cars proceeding through the intersection. But why would anyone with any commonsense step out into oncoming cars? To restate: I see someone so act every time my walking route takes me to any street with traffic lights in Hillcrest or North Park, which border my neighborhood of University Heights.
What’s wrong with these people?
The gent is out of focus in this street shot, snapped from the hip a block or two later at University Ave. That’s the risk with this kind of photography. Vitals, aperture manually set: f/5.6, ISO 200, 1/3200 sec, 28mm; 12:41 p.m. Composed as captured, using Leica Q2 Monochrom.