Comments on: A history of “jaywalking”

By: Seattle police ruffle a lot of jaywalker feathers | New To Seattle

Seattle police ruffle a lot of jaywalker feathers | New To Seattle — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:36:06 +0000

[...] way, the term, generally defined as crossing on foot a street not at an intersection or crosswalk, was coined nearly a century ago to describe “jays,” or rural folk who supposedly didn’t know how to walk safely in the big city. In early usage [...]

By: Stop Jaywalking! | ATX Post

Stop Jaywalking! | ATX Post — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:05:19 +0000

[...] walking against the light. Our keen journalistic instincts first led us to Google and then to an excerpt from a Fighting Traffic. According to author Peter D. Norton: “A ‘jay’ was a hayseed, out of place in the city; [...]

By: Jaywalking and Pedestrian Rights « HARDCorps

Jaywalking and Pedestrian Rights « HARDCorps — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:48:05 +0000

[...] a natural and expected part of urban life. When originally proposed, both the laws and term were considered mildly offensive, and even the New York Times found these laws laughable. Pedestrians refused to follow new laws and [...]

By: Should Jaywalking be a Crime? « Walking in Seattle

Should Jaywalking be a Crime? « Walking in Seattle — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:56:59 +0000

[...] this blog, The Toronto Star reviews the history of jaywalking. Here’s more good insight into how walking across the street has become criminalized as “jaywalking”: The cleverest anti-jaywalking publicity effort was in Detroit in 1922, where the Packard Motor Car [...]

By: What I’m reading today « west north

What I’m reading today « west north — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:36:05 +0000

[...] as Patrick Condon (links to PDF) points out — my own reading of history (relying on Peter Norton here) says otherwise. Auto domination was a conscious political choice made in the 1920s, before [...]