Unrelated but related: I took adult swimming classes for four weeks this summer, and of the 12 people in my class, at least half were black women (including myself). Also, my little 9 year old cousin is a competitive swimmer. Black women can and will do anything to break barriers, and I’m so proud of our Olympians.…

That reasoning implies that the pedestrians congregating en masse on the bridge are not at fault, when their presence is the only reason such a decision had to be made.

Gosh I really hope my posts aren’t coming off like I’m some pro-car “Kill the pedestrians if they are in my way!” I’d much rather come off... anti-stupid I guess?

It sounds like we’re just engaged in two separate conversations. My concern is with protecting pedestrians; yours is a larger-scope concern for minimizing the impact of vehicles in congested areas.

If you were born in the early to mid 90's you would have certainly used or at least seen a corded phone. Probably goes with dial-up Internet too especially with the ocean of AOL CDs. Cellphones weren’t really big until very late 90s and we’re not counting bag phones; those were few and far between outside of the…

I love all the responses you triggered with that last bit! Seems a lot of people here were born in the 90's. How many of them do you think have seen, let alone used, a phone with a wire? You think they’d be able to work out how to use a rotary dial phone?

Very easily if that suprises you.

lucky I dont have that particular problem. I bike everywhere. and places I cant bike to I take the bus :)

Don’t have one either for the same reason. I don’t call anyone ha! Yet...I will still get one eventually in case my car breaks down at 3am with nothing close for miles. So emergencies....that’s a good reason for one. Emergencies!

I admit I’m definitely approaching this with a ‘glass half empty’ mindset... but things like portable toilets cost money. It strains the cities resources to pull these out, set them up, and empty the waste tank as needed.

I think the implication is just to provide an easier access for people so they don’t disrupt business owners. Prevention is better than dealing with the consequences. I wish my town was more like that because we have a popular spot with 4 pokestops in a public space but since there’s a lot of people everyday, the…

This all sounds a bit... much. Potentially disrupting traffic flow by closing off bridges and a bus system that makes stops at popular catching zones?

So, endangering lives means people should lose their license?

But when that soap gets in your eyes, you wish you were dead.

“Tragic loss of lives” hasn’t stopped....

So it is DUI if driving over a particular blood alcohol limit, reckless driving, running red lights, possible assault. Sure, these people need to lose their license because they violated the law. The last I checked, driving is a privilege, not a right.

Except for the fact that the people who usually pay for someone else’s driving mistakes have absolutely nothing to do with it. Is it “natural selection” when someone doing this sends another car into a guard rail or a ditch, or causes a truck who has to avoid them to roll or hit another car?

Forget pleading. These people need to lose their driver’s license for life so the rest of us on the road do not die.

I plead with people to NOT try this again. Please. Seriously, please. If you have a Tesla, enjoy your autopilot crap on the highway, maybe use it to stretch a bit or something. For the love of God though, please, PLEASE, do not play Pokemon Go and this. It is practically DANGLING a death or two out in the open. I…

Pokemon go is technological natural selection weeding out the weak and stupid.