{"id":312,"date":"2007-11-30T18:03:15","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T22:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=312"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:59:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:59:56","slug":"spacing-montreal-poll-do-you-jaywalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/30\/spacing-montreal-poll-do-you-jaywalk\/","title":{"rendered":"SPACING MONTREAL POLL: Do you jaywalk?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Montrealers are known for the tendency to cross the street wherever they want. Simply put, most of us have no aversion to jaywalking, and there’s no greater proof than the corner of Ste. Catherine and Stanley. One a bone-chilling February day in 2006, I stood for five minutes at this busy downtown intersection and witnesses no fewer than 100 people crossing against a red light. Take a close look at the colour of the light in the photo above: it’s green. All of those people are jaywalking.<\/p>\n

Lately, though, we’ve noticed more and more people waiting for the light to change even when no cars are coming. On some weekends at corners like Ste. Catherine and University, jaywalkers often seem to be in the minority. What’s going on? Have the police’s occasional crackdowns actually changed our pedestrian habits? Or is it simply the tourists and suburbanites who flock to Ste. Catherine who change the natural order of things? Every summer, pedestrians seem as unruly as ever<\/a>, but things might be changing.<\/p>\n

That’s why we’re launching our very first poll. We want to know: do you jaywalk?<\/p>\n