ok dumb question time ... if they are waiting on the curb at the crosswalk (at a intersection with no traffic signal or stop sign) should you stop and let them cross? What if they have crossed the street halfway and are standing on the median?
What scares me is the people that step off the curb just about as my front bumper gets to the crosswalk line. I know the intent is that I will be past them in a second but why cant they wait until I am actually past ...
if they are waiting on the curb at the crosswalk (at a intersection with no traffic signal or stop sign) should you stop and let them cross?
It would be polite, but not required. I try to do this when there's only one lane going in my direction. If there's more lanes, then I'm only creating a hazard.
What if they have crossed the street halfway and are standing on the median?
Crosswalks on streets with median strips usually have traffic lights, so the "they're not supposed to be there" rule might apply. If they're just standing in the crosswalk at the double yellow line, then I think I'd have to stop.
What scares me is the people that step off the curb just about as my front bumper gets to the crosswalk line. I know the intent is that I will be past them in a second but why cant they wait until I am actually past ...
I so wouldn't trust a cop to know the law. When I got hit by a car at UF, I called the police station later. They said, even though I was in the crosswalk, that it was partially my fault since I was going opposite traffic on my bike, and that I would have gotten a ticket had a policeman stopped. I thought this sounded funny, but forgot about it.
The next year there was a letter in the Alligator from a law student. The same thing had happened to him, but the cop was there and he did get the ticket. He looked up the law, and pedestrians *always* have the right-of-way in a crosswalk, no matter which way they're going, and what they're on (bike, foot, lawnmower, skateboard, hovercraft). He brought this up with the judge, and got the ticket dropped.
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Date: 2008-04-30 03:30 pm (UTC)What scares me is the people that step off the curb just about as my front bumper gets to the crosswalk line. I know the intent is that I will be past them in a second but why cant they wait until I am actually past ...
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Date: 2008-04-30 04:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-01 12:44 am (UTC)It would be polite, but not required. I try to do this when there's only one lane going in my direction. If there's more lanes, then I'm only creating a hazard.
Crosswalks on streets with median strips usually have traffic lights, so the "they're not supposed to be there" rule might apply. If they're just standing in the crosswalk at the double yellow line, then I think I'd have to stop.
Agreed.
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Date: 2008-05-01 12:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-01 01:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-01 03:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-01 12:20 pm (UTC)The next year there was a letter in the Alligator from a law student. The same thing had happened to him, but the cop was there and he did get the ticket. He looked up the law, and pedestrians *always* have the right-of-way in a crosswalk, no matter which way they're going, and what they're on (bike, foot, lawnmower, skateboard, hovercraft). He brought this up with the judge, and got the ticket dropped.