PLEASE PLEASE do not give bad advice here, you may get folks killed. "No pedestrian may suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk ... into the pa

PLEASE PLEASE do not give bad advice here, you may get folks killed. "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." That is the LAW. The issue is at some intersections particularly at night, a car coming around a bend at 40mph will almost always pose an immediate hazard particularly if you look at standardized reaction times and stopping distances. A city doing this properly, before painting a crosswalk, would look at doing things like reducing multi-lane travel, reducing speed, signalizing the intersection, doing bumpouts, increasing sightlines (red curb pain, tree and vegetation removal) and much more. Then once it is safe enough, they would paint a crosswalk to attract crossings to this safer crossing.