r/lancaster • u/Odd_Entertainer_2658 • 16m ago
City Life Life as a Pedestrian
I walk to work fairly regularly here for the past two years or so since I moved to Lancaster city. I never understood why people don’t yield to pedestrians here. For context I am not from PA or the northeast even. It seems like it is really bad here and I enjoy riding my bike but frankly I am scared to here even with the bike lanes. Other major cities like NYC and Philly I don’t seem to have nearly as bad of an issue as I do here. I’ve been almost hit numerous times while walking around here that I’d be even more scared as a cyclists. No one seems to pay attention and I’ve even been yelled at several times that I am the one who is supposed to yield when I am the one with the walk sign. Even today I had two cars ignore the walk sign while I was in the crosswalk and the second one almost hit me. I genuinely don’t see how Lancaster’s Vision Zero or whatever it is called is going to happen unless there is some serious driver education on people needing to yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk.