Which is why Montrealers are notorious jaywalkers - you can see the cabs coming at you midway up the block. However, we do have the example of the UK as well, where motorists must yield to pedestrians at zebra crossings (and do).
It’s a cultural difference, perhaps, but make laws like pedestrian priority and zipper merging, then enforce the crap out of them, and your culture too will change…
If a sign was posted that said “use two lanes” and another later said “merge now,” it would help. They’ve now introduced round-a-bouts which are driving everybody crazy.
I suspect a lot of urban designers would agree with you. I’ve noticed in some cities (London UK for one) the pedestrian crosswalks are set back from the actual intersection, so by the time cars are an issue there are only two directions to worry about.
“Jaywalking” only came into existence with the advent of the car anyhow.
I found this when doing some more cleaning in the one room of my house; I was in D.C. on a class trip.
As a former (amateur) ballet dancer, I am so happy to see this:
As with band-aids, though, I’ve never met anyone who actually is that pale peachy pink. Either white people used to be a lot peachier and pinker, or else the colour always did suck for everyone.
I come pretty darn close.
I’m listening to BBC Radio 3, and I’ve just noticed that Cole Porter stole parts of “You’d be so Easy to Love” from Shostakovitch’s Piano Trio No. 1.
I didn’t know the slippers were supposed to match skin tones. Admittedly, I haven’t really spent much time thinking about ballet.
I didn’t either. When I’ve read about ballet’s history, it’s always noted the shoes usually come in pink but get dyed to match different costumes.
It seemed weird to me since pantyhose, which are coloured to match the skin tones of white people (and more recently POC) don’t come in that pink colour, at least not commonly.
In Elizabeth Zimmerman’s Knitters Almanac, she notes the pink bandage colour was called “salmon” in WWII. Also how she’d hated it ever since 
looks at the different colours of the various oncorhynchus species
Hell, even that ain’t accurate.
Are you referring to the meat or the scales?
The meat, in my experience, is a pretty close match to the colour “salmon.”
Salmo salar, maybe.
But it’s a far, far cry from Oncorhynchus nerka or even tshawytscha. Maaaybe gorbuscha or keta if you squint.
The point being that there are many species of salmon and they come in many, many colours.
The point of having same-color tights and shoes is to make it seem like the legs are even more elongated.
“A good composer does not imitate; he steals.”
And that they had no feet?
