Final summary

Summary

I chose to investigate jaywalking in Wellington, New Zealand. People generally make comments like “Oh Wellington has so many jaywalkers, it’s so bad” and I wanted to see if how true this was.

I collected data through tally charts at three significant intersections in the city over three different 15minute periods. I then did a panoramic photo of each of the three intersections, and then used the photos as a reference to do a line drawing of all three intersections together.

Descending off each intersection are lines based on the data I collected.

- White lines appear for every jaywalker recorded
- Grey lines represent people who crossed the intersections legally

Each separate image represents a different hour period, and within each image, the three intersections are portrayed.

I choose to present them like scans, as the slight variations in line density and brightness between the different hours reminded me of the variations you see in things like brain scan images.

Essentially, the brighter areas of the images reflect areas of greater jaywalking.