re: Why do people walk/jog in the street instead of the sidewalk?

As far as walking (not jogging), it is usually a certain demographic I've noticed doing this.

I can't remember seeing this around here. It's never occurred to me to run on the street when a sidewalk is available. Occasionally I'll have to go around a car or an obstruction, but runners here stick to the sidewalks where possible.

Not to mention less camber (I know some sidewalks can be worse than roads, but not here).

Because you frickers won’t stop blocking the sidewalk.

It’s more dangerous to weave on and off the sidewalk than to assert yourself in one spot.

Absolutely correct about asphalt being softer. When I was young and fit, my knees could tell immediately when I switched from concrete to asphalt.

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And a lot of my black neighbors like to walk in the street when it’s dark - and I mean exercise, not hood rat shite.

I get it’s cooler but they’re going to get run over.

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It's also safer for them. When I was younger and living in the Lower 9th Ward I'd always walk in the middle of the streets----especially at night.

It gave me a few more seconds to react if someone came at me.

Dunno. Ask Michael Brown.

I typically run on the sidewalk, but when it's bad I run against traffic so I can move over when cars are coming. Something people overlook is that running on the sidewalk can make drivers blind to you crossing side streets. I've had close calls where cars aren't paying attention and blow through a crosswalk because they're paying attention to traffic instead of pedestrians. Running in the street can actually be safer because that's where people are looking (assuming they're not playing with their MF'ing phones, which is a whole other soapbox)

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either way, getting hit by a vehicle is much worse on the knees,

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What am I missing here?

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The idiots in the road, try harder.