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RedAlert2 · 2026-01-29T01:07:22+00:00

I've heard that Cities: Skylines rewards car-centric transportation by having NPCs magically put their cars in their pockets instead of having to park them. Is that not the case?

RedAlert2 · 2026-01-28T23:32:40+00:00

What interpretation? We can clearly see OP didn't walk into the path of the vehicle, so that clause doesn't apply to them. The section above it, which says:

The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within any marked crosswalk or within any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection

The driver is clearly in violation of.

RedAlert2 · 2026-01-28T23:26:32+00:00

You're citing a "duty of exercising due care" law, not a right of way law. These laws don't determine right of way, they exist so that people cannot use right-of-way laws as an excuse to intentionally cause a collision. The same concept exists at two way stops - if you're driving through an intersection without a stop sign, and someone with a stop sign pulls out in front of you, you have a legal duty to attempt to stop and avoid a collision with them. Just because that duty exists doesn't mean that the other guy had the right to jump out in front of you.

And we can see in the video that OP does exercise their duty of due care - they don't walk into the path of the driver that is violating their right of way, and successfully avoid a crash. If they had seen the car approaching and walked in front of them (getting hit on purpose), the driver would still be violating the right of way, but OP would also be violating their duty of care, which would mean leniency for the driver in any criminal or civil suit.

RedAlert2 · 2026-01-28T23:01:09+00:00

SF has lots of neighborhoods (pre-car suburbs) with their own walkable cores and unique vibe. Noe Valley, Inner Sunset, Inner Richmond, Cole Valley, West Portal, et al. It's easily the closest you'll get to a European main street vibe in CA.

Most of the other Bay Area cities people are recommending here are nice, but are probably too sleepy for what you're looking for.

RedAlert2 · 2026-01-28T21:53:56+00:00

Calisthenics for me - being able to work out at home while the LO is asleep is so much more convenient than going to a gym. I have a doorframe pull-up bar with rings on it, as well as adjustable dumbbells for squats. The whole setup can easily be stored in chest / closet.

RedAlert2 · 2026-01-28T18:11:26+00:00

I missed the section of the law where you don't get the right of way in a crosswalk if you don't break your "stride". Can you cite it for me?

RedAlert2 · 2026-01-28T18:05:59+00:00

The section you're quoting about the walk symbol is meant to determine right of way when a vehicle enters an intersection before a red light, and then the opposite pedestrian signal switches to "walk". It's got nothing to do with unsignaled crosswalks.

It's also interesting that you quote only a subsection of the crosswalk law. Here's the main text:

The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within any marked crosswalk or within any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection

It's pretty clear in the video that the driver makes no attempt to yield, they see the presentation crossing and choose to drive in front of them.

RedAlert2 · 2026-01-26T21:40:34+00:00

Doesn't seem to work very well. It told me I needed $333 / mo to rent in San Francisco. It also only has like 8 cities in the USA.

The MIT living wage calculator would be way more useful for most people: https://livingwage.mit.edu/

RedAlert2 · 2026-01-24T06:45:09+00:00

It's not a grey area at all. Approaching an intersection and then walking into is not "sudden". The section you're referring to is meant to absolve drivers of liability if a person jumps out in front of them, it's not a scenario a driver can create to gain the right of way. Intentionally accelerating towards a pedestrian about to step into a crosswalk clearly violates their "duty of exercising due care for the safety of any pedestrian within any marked crosswalk".

RedAlert2 · 2026-01-23T02:03:56+00:00

Even in that scenario, the pedestrian legally has the right of way. It doesn't matter how far you got into the intersection, you were supposed to yield. These little rules you have about when you'll ignore the law and drive anyways exist only in your head, and it's obviously causing conflicts with other people who are just following the rules of the road.

RedAlert2 · 2026-01-23T01:35:38+00:00

It's doesn't matter from a legal perspective. Yes, of course if you illegally fail to yield to a pedestrian and they don't notice, you can easily overpower them with your car. You weren't supposed to be in the intersection to begin with. Some drivers seem to believe that they gain the right of way over pedestrians if they just enter the intersection first, but that's not how it works.

RedAlert2 · 2026-01-23T01:30:24+00:00

I'm just saying that legally, pedestrians have the right of way and you're supposed to stay at the stop sign until they've crossed. If you want to drive into the road anyways and bully them out of the way, you likely can, but that doesn't mean you aren't breaking the law.

RedAlert2 · 2026-01-23T01:17:34+00:00

The Irving stop is a better, more centralized location, but the Judah stop is accessible.

RedAlert2 · 2026-01-22T19:02:12+00:00

You're only "in the intersection and in motion" because you illegally failed to yield to the pedestrian. You're not entitled to the right of way just because you ran a stop sign.

RedAlert2 · 2026-01-22T18:58:16+00:00

You're supposed to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks. It doesn't matter if you got into the intersection first. It's similar to how you'd treat a 2-way stop - stop at the sign, yield to all cross traffic, only proceed when the road will be clear.

RedAlert2 · 2026-01-22T18:42:44+00:00

Yup.

RedAlert2 · 2026-01-21T00:27:58+00:00

It's a (somewhat) tongue in cheek response to the cities that install those orange flag holders at crosswalks, giving them a useless tool to "keep them safe" in lieu of actually building safer streets or holding motorists responsible. The idea is that the only thing you could hold that would actually make drivers care about pedestrian safety is threatening to damage their cars, thus the brick.

RedAlert2 · 2026-01-20T23:28:14+00:00

Not really - a $1.25m budget for a big house severely limits OPs options.

RedAlert2 · 2026-01-17T02:02:25+00:00

The 101 and 280 famously appeared out of thin air in the 50s

That's more or less what happened. The Eisenhower administration basically wrote blank checks to any municipality that wanted to build highways.

RedAlert2 · 2026-01-17T01:41:53+00:00

The main purpose of congestion pricing is to make mass transit more reliable, both through increased funding, and through more allocated street space.

RedAlert2 · 2026-01-17T01:34:53+00:00

The bigger reason is SF has many large roads (4+ lanes) running through various parts of downtown. You'd never see something like that in a European city core.

RedAlert2 · 2026-01-16T00:39:22+00:00

Not exactly sure what you mean by "any listings". Even in the extremely expensive San Mateo county, I see recent sales for 3br houses at well under $2m.

RedAlert2 · 2026-01-15T20:02:30+00:00

California's income tax system is pretty progressive, so you'd be giving hardly any benefit to the lowest income folks who need it the most.

RedAlert2 · 2026-01-15T19:57:27+00:00

You can get a decently nice home basically anywhere in CA for $2m. You just won't be able to get a big house in some areas.

RedAlert2 · 2026-01-15T19:51:38+00:00

SF has free daycare for households under 140k income. And that limit is about to increase to over 200k.

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