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The rules at a dangerous (and all) intersections are basically due care by the pedestrian. "No pedestrian may suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety an
by onphonenow 4y ago
The rules at a dangerous (and all) intersections are basically due care by the pedestrian.
"No pedestrian may suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk ... into the path of a vehicle that is so close as to constitute an immediate hazard."
The problem with dangerous intersections (think 40 mph or multi-lane, or with a bend in road) is that it may be difficult to cross (think at night etc) is that many vehicles will pose an immediate hazard as they come around the bend or at speed when you looking at standardized stopping distances and reaction times.
We have a crossing near me that is around a modest bend where folks are moving at speed. There is almost no time to stop even if paying attention. To paint a crossing here at an unsignalized intersection that would attract folks to cross would be criminal in my view.
- aidenn0 4y agoI get your point, but if there is a 40mph road with a bend right before a crosswalk, I don't think it's particularly material whether there is paint on the crosswalk or not.
- onphonenow 4y agoIt is, because if the crosswalk collective idiots paint a crosswalk there, pedestrians will be more likely to choose this terrible crossing and be killed. That's the point their ego's seem totally unable to grasp in all this. That's literally part of how this design works. They've painted a crosswalk in the straight before the bend, and the straight after at a stop sign (goal is every 300 feet minimum to have a high quality crossing) to draw folks away from this dangerous crossing. Rule of thumb is 40mph traffic requires 400 feet sightlines to stop and if you have a multilane crossing more