It occurs to me that I might not have made it clear that there is a definite difference in my vision between travel lanes and other spaces. Only individuals using the travel lanes have to follow the 6 laws I suggested. Individuals who are outside of the travel lanes (on private property, on the grass, on plazas, in parking areas, etc.) would be free to move in whatever way they wanted to, just like it is now. Pedestrians meandering around, stopping to chat, or sitting down for a rest would not be using the travel lanes. Folks would need to cross the travel lanes sometimes, would have the right to do so, and would be motivated to do so safely, since they presumably wouldn't want to get hit! this would effectively make all roads crosswalks, too. So instead of channelling lots of pedestrians into narrow crosswalks at random and possible inconvenient locations with traffic yielding to them, pedestrians would cross wherever they needed to, and through traffic would still have to yeild to them. So again, no real difference there, except that we're reminding people that they have to be attentive to cross-traffic everywhere, rather than just when they see some white lines in the road.
<br><br>You know, it would probably be a lot easier and more effective if I made a pretty picture of my idea...<br><br>-Turtle<br>so many ideas, so little time...<br>