New York City just made jaywalking legal after data showed that people of color were overwhelmingly the ones being stopped for the crime. But why was it a crime in the first place? The World’s transportation reporter Jeremy Siegel brings us a brief history of jaywalking and takes a look at whether it’s safer to cross at the green, or in between.
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