I live in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts, and there are some towns up here where they aggressively prosecute drivers that do not stop at crosswalks.
The people are complete idiots. They arrogantly (and stupidly) step out into the crosswalk at dusk and dawn, from behind parked cars and so on. If you have to stop fast (as you sometimes do to avoid running them over) they stare at you.
Just unbelievable. When I go to a crosswalk, at the very LEAST I will wait for a break in the traffic both ways to keep from being run over in case someone just cannot see me, and often I will just stay back away from a crosswalk until I can cross without even slowing down traffic.
These people sometimes get up to the crosswalk and stop after stepping off the curb, talking on a cell phone or whatever. The worst two towns are Lexington and Concord, both complete liberal bastions.
The birthplace of the American Revolution indeed. How embarrassing.
California was always ahead of its time for stupid, fascist, liberty-reducing laws.
Lately in Virginia we have communities like Vienna where every single intersection has a traffic light and all of them are out of sync, so traffic crawls from stop to stop. It's so stupid that most of us don't even go near places like Vienna because it's such a pain to drive through. It's unlikely that whoever thought that system up has considered the economic ramifications of this system, but I'm sure that they're enjoying the control it gave them.