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remery said..
Even worse, the corrupt government has mandated that I must use this pedestrian crossing when I am within 20 metres of it....
Well thats a relief remery. It seems Premier Cook is a bit more relaxed than Dictator McGowan.
I mean, if you followed the previous logic then nobody would be allowed to drive their car until atleast 95% of the residents of WA have crossed the road using a designated crossing.
At least now you only have to use it when you are within 20m of it.
But what if you didn't want to cross the road ? I guess you'd have to have a second crossing a further 20m away so you could cross back.
But what if you did want to cross the road, but you are now back to the original side as you have used both mandated crossings.
I'd guess the only solution is to have a third crossing another 20m further on so you can get back.
But wait, this crossing idea seemed like a good thing in your original post, but now I realise this just repeats. Crossing after crossing, no end in sight. Either side of the road, just another crossing. Gotta cross the road whether you want to or not. We can't just tell pedestrians to cross the road when they need to, by checking for traffic or using a crossing if they want to, that would make the first mandated crossing inexplicable.
Hang-on, I can't even remember which side of the road you wanted to be on now. Still probably not important so long as you have used all six crossings in the last 120m and therefore been soooo safe just walking down the street. Yep, cross the traffic six times using a supersafe and effective crossing, just to stay on the same side of the road has to be much safer and effective for everyone than .... just staying on the same side of the road. The science says so. It is probably empirical.
At some point I guess you will either get to the end of the street, be run over on one of them many crossings, or just decide for yourself to not cross on the next crossing because there ain't no point, you are where you wanna be.
Which do you reckon will come first ?