Title : "From every direction, in every direction, people are moving: zigzagging by foot, wheel, and hoof."
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"From every direction, in every direction, people are moving: zigzagging by foot, wheel, and hoof."
"A man selling newspapers walks backward toward an approaching carriage. A trolley car nearly cuts off an automobile being pursued by a gaggle of taunting children. At one point, a man stands in the middle of the street, folding his handkerchief and gazing absently as figures weave around him.""It’s an orchestrated series of near misses. But nobody gets hurt. An ancient law is at work: right of way."
Writes Brett Simpson in "Why Cars Don’t Deserve the Right of Way/The simplest way to make roads safer and reduce police violence at the same time" by (The Atlantic)(pointing to the embedded film that shows San Francisco 1906, days before the devastating earthquake).
From the Roman viae publicae to the king’s roads of medieval England, Western public roads operated around a common premise: that every person has the right to travel unimpeded, with equal priority. Horses, walkers, and carts––and later bikes and trolleys––moved in a constantly negotiated balance of power.
But as cars multiplied, horsepower became the enemy of equity....
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