Sadly, this one isn't an April Fool's joke

That said, it's certainly the most foolish thing I've seen in quite a while. Although I've already posted on this subject, I just wanted to remind all of our Edmontonian readers that as of yesterday, you'll now be charged a cool $250 if you get busted for jaywalking.

The logic given for this increase? Pedestrians need an "incentive to play safer." Apparently, not getting smashed by a car and slowly bleeding to death on the pavement is not quite incentive enough.

Comments

[Aaron]

It's all part of a greater scheme to pay for the new arena downtown. With 20,000 people downtown at least 3 nights a week, at least some of them will be jaywalking. These fines will go to pay for the new arena.