Hyperfixed Crosswalk Jonny
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Feb 26, 2026 Jonathan Hale, a second-year UCLA law student and grassroots safety activist who founded People’s Vision Zero. He talks about painting guerrilla crosswalks to improve pedestrian safety. He explains tactical urbanism, choosing dangerous corners using data, organizing neighbors and media, and how arrests and viral attention forced city accountability.
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Make Activism Transparent To Create Leverage
- Use public, transparent actions to force institutional accountability rather than anonymous guerrilla tactics.
- Jonathan formed People's Vision Zero to publicly paint crosswalks, notify neighborhoods, and leak to press to trigger city response.
Neighborhood Paint Job Forced A Rapid City Reaction
- People's Vision Zero painted four code-compliant crosswalks near Stoner Park, engaged neighbors, and then leaked the story to media.
- The city removed them in one day, then repainted all four within a week after pressure and emails from Johnny.
Use Crash Data To Prioritize Interventions
- Data-driven targeting improves activist impact by focusing on historically dangerous intersections.
- Jonathan used UC Berkeley's TIMSS crash data to pick residential four-way stops where pedestrians had been hit in the last decade.