People often 'jaywalk' in the middle of long blocks, even on busy stroads, generally because the block is long and they don't to detour to crosswalk. But there's also an idea that it can be safer, counter-intuitively. Nothing really deep here, just thinking things through explicitly:
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I've talked a lot about my local baby stroad, San Pablo, enough that I should start tagging it. 4 lanes of traffic, with local median, meant to be busy and fast. My nearest intersection is a T, I think always green north-south unless the lights detect a westbound car or a pedestrian presses the beg button. It's not so bad. But, unexpectedly, today I didn't have to press the beg button.
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I've been reading Marohn's Confessions of a Recovering Engineer, and he brought up an idea of a "good stroad", using Champs-Elysees as an example. But it's been redesigned, so I think CDMX Paseo de la Reforma works. https://www.google.com/maps/@19.427597,-99.1666869,18.25z/data=!5m1!1e4?entry=ttu
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