Undisciplined people
The shopping center in the city where I live is full of a variety of stores, bar, fast foods even banks. It is a long, continuous street which is at the same level of the side walk. It is only for people who walk up and down looking for something that they need to buy.
Stores offer us everything. It can be from glasses to electronic devices and obviously clothes and shoes. Daily this place is visited by a lot of people, but on holidays the amount increases so the authorities have decided to put traffic lights on the streets which cross that main path.
Usually people used to walk there carefree and without paying attention. Now they need to be careful and stop to wait for the signal, but they don’t do it.
At last my question is, why can’t that people wait for a few seconds? Is it so difficult?. Why do they disrespect social rules? I hope to know the answer someday.
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Hi Grace, thanks for describing more about how the car traffic crosses the pedestrian shopping street. Your explanation was very clear. I agree with you that people walking along the shopping street should be considerate to drivers by letting the cars use the intersection when the cars have their turn to have the green light. If all the pedestrians would obey the traffic signals, it would be less stressful for the drivers and also safer for the pedestrians.
Since you said you'd be happy to receive corrections for the reply you wrote to me, I copied your comment here so that I could add colors and strikeouts to make it easier to see where I have suggested making changes.
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Sonya. Firtst First Thank you very much for helping me. Second: I will try
to explain it better. Many years ago the shopping center was only
regular blocks with stores. It * There was normal traffic all around them
and people only walked on the sidewalk. When the shops and public
increased, they decided to cut the circulation of cars and raised the
street to the level of the sidewalk so that the people walked comfortably (suggestion: "so the people could walk comfortably").
This happened along many blocks, but the perpendicular streets stayed as
before. Then in every street corner the people had to stop and let the
cars pass, and sometimes they crossed among cars dangerously. Now they
control this problem -- or almost control this problem -- with traffic lights. If you want to
correct this, I will appreciate it. Thanks again.
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* Because these two sentences are closely related, it could be nice to combine them into one sentence by using either a dash or a semicolon. "Many years ago the shopping center was only regular blocks with stores -- there was normal traffic all around them and people only walked on the sidewalk." or "Many years ago the shopping center was only regular blocks with stores; there was normal traffic all around them and people only walked on the sidewalk." (Native English speakers don't use semicolons much unless they are writing something formal, such as a school essay. I think most people are more comfortable using dashes.)
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Undisciplined people
The shopping center in the city where I live is full of a variety of stores, bars, fast food restaurants, even banks. It is a long, continuous street which is at the same level as the side walk (no estoy seguro de que significa "at the same level as the sidewalk" - es a la misma altura, o en el mismo lado de la acera?). It is only for people who walk up and down looking for something that they need to buy.Stores offer us everything. It can be, from glasses to electronic devices and obviously clothes and shoes. Daily this place is visited by a lot of people, but on holidays the amount increases so the authorities have decided to put traffic lights on the streets which cross the main path.
Usually People used (si utilizas la palabra "used" ya da la sensacion de algo habitual, entonces no nos hace falta "Usually") to walk there carefree and without paying attention. Now they need to be careful and stop to wait for the signal, but they don’t do it.
At last Finally, my question is: why can’t that people wait for a few seconds? Is it so difficult?. Why do they disrespect social rules? I hope to know the answer someday.
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Undisciplined people
The shopping center in the city where I live is full of a variety of stores, bar, fast foods restaurants, and even banks. It is a long, continuous street which is at the same level of the sidewalk. It is only for people who walk up and down looking for something that they need to buy.Stores offer us everything. It can be from glasses to electronic devices and obviously clothes and shoes. Daily this place is visited by a lot of people, but on holidays the amount increases, so the authorities have decided to put traffic lights on the streets which cross that main path.
Usually people used to walk there carefree and without paying attention. Now they need to be careful and stop to wait for the signal, but they don’t do it.
At last my question is, why can’t that those people wait for a few seconds? Is it so difficult?. Why do they disrespect social rules? I hope to know the answer someday.
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Grace, you've done a good job with your writing -- only a small number of little changes were needed.
Some options: you can say "fast food restaurants", "fast food places" or even "fast food joints." If they are selling the food from a cart or a booth on the street or from a food truck, then you can say "fast food vendors."
I have a question: are those traffic lights in places that also have cars? Or are the traffic lights in places where only pedestrians are crossing in all directions? (I have never seen a place where there are traffic lights for pedestrians without cars also crossing there...so I am curious about whether this exists somewhere).
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