The new law allows people to legally jaywalk or cross outside of an intersection - without being ticketed - as long as it's safe to do so. The law will take effect in January.
AB 2147, also known as The Freedom To Walk Act, says people can only be ticketed for jaywalking if there's an immediate danger of a crash. Assembly member Phil Ting , who introduced the bill, says expensive tickets and unnecessary confrontations with law enforcement only impact certain communities. "It should not be a criminal offense to safely cross the street. When expensive tickets and unnecessary confrontations with police impact only certain communities, it's time to reconsider how we use our law enforcement resources and whether our jaywalking laws really do protect pedestrians," Ting said in a statement. "Plus, we should be encouraging people to get out of their cars and walk for health and environmental reasons.
Up until 2018, it was illegal for people to cross the street at a traffic light when the pedestrian countdown meter began flashing, according to press release released by Ting's office.
Imagine walking all da way to the crosswalk and then walking back down to where you were lol. WTF?
Natural selection activated
The DUMBEST THINK IVE EVER HEARD! People are killed daily IN THE CROSSWALKS how is outside the crosswalks going to be safer? JUST STUPID! Obviously since covid didnt kill enough of us so the government is now trying this! Frfr
“Make it legal”. CA Democrats solve crime
That should fix all our problems. Maybe one day they will work on this little gas, homeless, mental illness, drug problem we have. But I am greatful I can now freely jaywalk.
As if the pinheads who do this give a jolly rat's ass about legal or no. This is as bad as that fucked up law about shoplifting!
I’m glad newsome is not wasting his time with high violent crime, fentanyl and povu
like there aren't more important bills to sign!
We can stoppainting the cross walks they are no longer needed
My insurance will increase because the likely hood of hitting someone accidentally. 🤦🏾♀️
Klutchvaro Trying to get rid of some ignorants I see lol
PSA: Please do not J walk in Alhambra.
Getting rid of the law because it only impacts “certain communities” is a veiled way to say that POC can’t figure out a crosswalk. Really?
Newson Has to go. He is destroying California
So happy a law has finally been passed to help fix homelessness, the housing crisis, and high gas prices! Thank you GavinNewsom CA_Dem
Newsom needs to worry about the bigger issues what a loser
So if that will be legal and they are struck by motorist how's that going to spin GavinNewsom
Good luck with that.
More traffic jams
Seriously folks, when was the last time a Cali cop gave someone a ticket for jaywalking much less anyone reporting it? I predict no impact from this law, other than the occasional homeless guy tossing a ticket in the gutter!
It’s all part of the leftist, environmentalist depopulation movement. Encourage unsafe behavior=fewer people=green agenda. Why do you think they legalize drugs and keep the fentanyl flowing over the border? Homeless people are getting mowed down every night jaywalking already.
Newsom is a huge dumpster fire
That's so dangerous...think about the insurance implications.
I understand the issue in terms of the 'reasonable person rule.' Hitting a pedestrian with your car is not reasonable--unless they were illegally jaywalking. Bad drivers no longer have that defense. In my experience, in many countries, jaywalking is typically reasonable.
Solving the really important issues...
this should help traffic as everyone acts like a homeless person wandering across streets!
I'm going to tell the kids at the elementary school now they can legally run across the road
The problem with this are with those who like to walk so damn slow!!!
This guy is a clown. Peroid
With all the other issues facing Californians (inflation, high gas prices, high crime), I am sure signing that bill was a top priority for him. 👎🏽
Yeah awesome work again governor spending his time on crap like this let’s still not try to solve the states real problems. Your tax dollars still hard at work folks, keep electing these people 🤡
Good let Darwinism work itself out I guess 🤡
Such a hero that Newsom.
dude wtf? why is he doing all this random ass shit wtf lol
🤦🏻♂️ More freebees for the opportune criminal minded.
GavinNewsom is again proving why is policies are the worst is the nation! Crime is up and now he’s asking for people to get killed! The lack of intelligence is ridiculous!
😂😂😂😂
With this law, A driver shouldn't be held responsible for hitting jaywalker.
Oh and while looking at phone
Newsome is turning California into a 3rd world country. Jaywalk, and steal money up to $800 with no consequence... what is next?
Becoming more lawless every year..
Natural selection is definitely a good idea. Maybe he will eliminate hand rails next. Newsom is so progressive.
What could possibly go wrong? 🤡🤡🤡
That is so stupid, I can see now, lawsuits, people die from being run over. Newson come on!
There’s people getting run over inside of crosswalks, now imagine how many more will outside a crosswalk. This makes no sense! These stupid laws are intentional! Intentionally made in efforts to depopulate. Now watch them deem the street lights to make it even more unsafe.
Today is a really good day to learn the difference between decriminalizing something (which is what this bill actually does) vs making something legal - which is NOT what this bill does. ABC7, you can do better.
The lawsuits between car and pedestrian are going to be an expensive nightmare.
Well of course Newsom wants this. He doesn't care for babies inside the womb why should he care once they're born and living as well. Who cares if they get hit by a car, bus or cause a major accident?
CynthiaKaui Now let’s decriminalize exercising 2A Rights
This man is starving for votes and love. Maybe his wife should give himmore attention so he stops wrecking California. Attention seeker. Example of untreated mentalhealth
Yasssssss 10 points, 25 points!! 200 POINTS C C C C C C C C C COMBO BRRAKERRRRR
Liberals have the best ideas
Dude whyyyyyy
Like this if you've gotten a ticket for jaywalking...
In all honesty, the only ones that don't use crosswalks correctly are homeless people.
Let's help crime go up.
Newsom passing the important laws. lol
Saw a movie about this....Death Race 2000
Interesting
How about enforcing all the laws!!!!
Was safe and in proper order, until this was allowed.
that’s the cure for this inflation we have here
Told our children to always use the crosswalk, because it was the safest place to cross the street. As a driver, marked crosswalks and street-corners were where I was especially watchful. Now, people, children, will be coming out from anywhere.
WOW!! Just puttin population control right out there now huh?!
Excuse me why?
Great liberal policy! The gangs of Norwegian kids committing all kinds of smash and grab robberies need clear streets they can cross at any point.
Now if we could get these drivers to slow down.
Guys and gals, consider getting a car cam! I was stopped in a line of cars in the Southbay when a guy rode his bike into my car. He said I hit him so I called 911, but then a patrol pulls up and the guy takes off. I was lucky the cops saw it all! I foresee the jaywalking version!
Crosswalks still aren’t safe tbh lol
Behind I hope it lets drivers off the hook who hit jaywalkers
My first real traffic ticket in California was jaywalking IN a crosswalk but against a red. I had waited for about a minute. No cars, one way street in downtown San Diego. Just as i got to other side i saw the police cruiser down street. He caught up with me.
now pedestrians that typically cross street with zero to no regard for their own life can walk in front of your moving vehicle any given moment at their usual leisurely pace & zero sense of urgency....and still look at you with utter disdain b/c they are afterall a pedestrian
Do police even give out tickets for Jay walking? I see people do it all of the time. Literally no difference will be made.
Bad idea!
Who’s to decide if it’s safe?
LizNaja GavinNewsom 🤢🤮
Can we make being an idiot legal in California? Oh wait...
Population control?
Once it's legal you're going to have entitled fools. Who don't know how to walk the street
Chaos!
An important law. Glad GavinNewsom took the time to sign another useless law 🙄
My question is what about MOTORIST who hit a legal jaywalker who just bolts out into traffic with out looking. Will they now be thrown in jail for manslaughter?!!
Segmented bike lanes and road diets all in the name of 'safety'. But go ahead, just run across a busy road anytime / anywhere... SMH
Good luck with that! It's dangerous in the crosswalk 😬
That's so stupid!!
What in the actual F. So many problems to deal with in CA and GavinNewsom spends his time with this garbage? His state is a dumpster fire and getting worse! Come on!
Humans vs Cars, I wonder who will win. Another social experiment signed by Newsom.
Oh cool! So basically jaywalking has risen to the same legal status as shoplifting and petty theft? THIS is what progress looks like! 👍🏼👍🏼
Cool
Ok great california is now back on the right track now that the jaywalking law has been addressed. Thank you almighty Grusome for that. When was the last someone was tix for jwalking!!!!
Whish will be deemed all the time so now when someone on a phone hits a jaywalking on their phone,the driver will be at fault
This is a HORRIBLE idea. What happens when pedestrians are struck? What happens when people swerve into an accident to avoid pedestrians? Who is at fault?
HAHAHA he really wants people to get run over.
They got to give drunks and druggies a pathway when they can’t find a crosswalk.
Will vehicular manslaughter be legal as well?
Good cause why does it take 3 hours to walk down the street using the crosswalk
Next thing for newsom to do is make throwing garbage out of your car window legal.
Going to be like frogger
Ok *drives into you anyway*
Get ready for a lot of this !!
I want the money plus interest back in what I had to pay for jaywalking. It wasn't even a major street.
Fun Fact: jaywalking was invented by car companies in the 1920s to change responsibility for avoiding pedestrian deaths from drivers to pedestrians.
Because we will all be walking, with gas at $7.00/gal. SHIT!
Who determines if it is safe?
Don't more people die walking in LA than anywhere else? 🤔
So does that mean if they are hit by a car, that the driver is NOT liable since they not in a crosswalk
As long as the law has a provision that prevents 'frivolous' lawsuits. In other countries, it's the pedestrian's responsibility to cross safely. Here in the US, people sue for stepping across without looking.
Jaywalking has always been legal, just don’t jaywalk on a busy street.
The ped will walk across at a snail pace like they always do and give you a dirty look while impeding traffic.
Sure glad that Newscum has his priorities in order.
Oh no but what will cops do now ?
La is now going to look like Mumbai.
I guess that’s all a matter of opinion. If I think it’s safe to drive 90 miles an hour should I be able to without being ticketed?
Can’t ticket it, make it legal. Ez pz.
Lol at these republicans thinking people don’t already cross the street when it’s safe to do so
Geez I wonder how we will know when it wasn't safe to jaywalk?🤔🤔
Great. I’m plan to walk across the freeway
It's bad enough with people crossing the streets the legal way. Yet let alone crossing without crosswalks. If someone Jay walking gets hit by a car who is now responsible the Jaywalker or the driver?
Did the people vote for this or was it just put in place by Government representatives? Democracy=government BY the People.
If I walk across the street and get hit, will I be able to sue Newsom or the driver?
Oh here we go - again when will the madness end?
?
They better reiterate laws that says that if you don't cross roads on a pedestrian crossing, you can't sue drivers if you get hit.
does the bill also indemnify the person who accidentally run them over?
Great. This state is going backwards!
ahh… so they can sue motorist who accidentally run them over. What a stupid governor we have.
Increased penalties for drivers who hit pedestrians too, please
My aunt was jaywalking she thought it was safe till someone lost control of their car slammed into her, 5 broken ribs, dislocated shoulder and broken knee. She is still in the hospital 1 month later, in convalescent care and it will be months till she recovers if she ever really!
It's only right. If it's safe to do so.
Buy a dashcam, people are going to jump in front of cars trying to get a quick payday.
Why not. Who needs laws when even if you break the law no consequences for doing so. Insane!!! 😡
So if the get hit it’s entirely their fault? Is that also stated clearly?
California law says pedestrians have the right of way, a condition not always present in other states.
Yeah, but that’s not what people do now is it? They walk out into traffic and expect not to be hit…. And FYI I don’t read or care about other’s opinions. Drop the mic 🎤
And what about after they get run over
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Umm... OK. Didn't know I needed this.
Look both ways before crossing the street. Don't expect the upcoming cars to stop for you. 🚘
FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM!
🤣🤣🤣
I'm OK with this. People do it anyway. Tickets don't stop them. I live near a major blvd that have crosswalks & lights that are few and in between. Lots of working class people that catch the bus & need to cross over. Silly to walk 4 blocks to cross legally.
Good luck. Increase in deaths even more. Trying to kill the population.
In most states that is the exact definition of NOT jaywalking “crossing a street while not endangering yourself or a driver/others” pays to actually read laws before making hay out of a stupid headline.
Newsom believes in Lawlessness!
Mr310KING That’s stupid! What’s next ? Shop lifting?
thought it was they do it all the time here
I've been safely jay walking for years 🚶
Such priorities! What a joke for a governor!
So when is he going to make 1st degree murder legal
When one revenue source ends, another one begins. What will they ticket pedestrians for now?
There are way too many people who don’t have the capacity to understand “when it’s safe to do so”.
Welllll they made crosswalks for a reason I think it was to be safe? Correct me if I’m wrong
Would like to know who determines what safe means?
With the drug addicted and homeless encampments strewn about the sides of the roads what could go wrong ?! Who will determine if it's 'safe to do so'?
Cities are not designed for pedestrian. Sometimes a pedestrian needs to walk a whole block to get to a designated cross walk.
Protecting criminals as always
No if they lower rent and make it open carry lol shit really going to get real
Oh this will be good. People being run over by cars, incoming.
So, this covers all drivers who hit a jaywalker, right? No charges? Even if the person we hit due to jaywalking dies from injuries? Almost hit a couple of teanagers once so I want to make sure it’s all good!
Nice. All the drugged up and homeless just stroll along with your Walmart carts. Including the ones with their pants hanging 👍🏽 bills that creat road rage and hate crimes. Good job.
If you get hit by a car or cause an accident, does that mean it wasn't safe?
In other news, studies show it is never safe to cross the street in California.
So I guess if they get ran over then it wasn’t safe and the driver will not be cited.
This is a very dangerous proposal by California governor GavinNewsom
There was a reason the law was made to begin with. We're going backwards.
what about jayrunners? they suddenly dart out from behind parked cars usually & bolt across wide streets some of them wait & wait and then run across when a car is almost upon them (no common sense) jay runners are a hazard to responsible drivers
Pretty sure that's been an ignorant thing but I won't name groups 😂😆
GavinNewsom should worry about the homeless crisis and crime problem that we have in California 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
It's almost like it already wasn't illegal with the amount of jaywalking.
Bruh what? As if we didn’t have enough ppl who jaywalk already . This is going to be bad
Soon be. It’s been.
If the awful drivers weren’t enough to look out for, now I got surprise pedestrians to worry about when there’s always a crosswalk a few yards away
Was a dumb law to begin with.
Shit already is!
This protects protesters that shut down roads and highways.
I will target every j walker
Well can i get my money back for the jay walking ticket I had to pay?
Jaywalking tickets solved! Great job, Governor. I don't see anything else going wrong in CA, take another vacay.
I can’t wait to jaywalk in front of a Culver City cop now
Great. I almost killed one yesterday in Little Saigon.
Walk this way my free spirits?”!
For those wondering, jaywalking has been applied unequally based on race, and a way for pedestrians to be fined when so many places have removed sidewalks and made everything hostile.
People get run over here IN crosswalks, this seems like it could be bad.
Should've been legal when I got a ticket over 20 years ago for crossing Gage Ave in Bell 😒
What could go wrong?
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