The Crosswalk Question

5 Responses to The Crosswalk Question

1. J. Clifford says:

   11/13/2009 at 10:14 am

   Some of the drivers here will, and some won’t. I think it correlates with the people who are actually involved in the community, knowing their neighbors, rather than just sleeping here in between bouts of work.

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2. Paul Davies says:

   11/13/2009 at 12:01 pm

   Some will and some won’t. It seems to depend on how long ago, and how well publicized the last police emphasis patrol was.

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3. JD says:

   11/13/2009 at 7:55 pm

   It’s important to be safe on the street and behind the wheel. Anyone who stops for someone standing on a curb in my metro area (population of a few million), they are in danger of causing a traffic accident as well as endangering the person shoud they step off the curb. I grew up in the 60s/70s in a small city (population 35,000), same thing. Only place I’ve driven that was different was a small community in Canada where there were no crosswalks. Up there pedestrians point before stepping off the curb and cars stop (local traffic law) Foolow the traffic laws and the crosswalk signs but don’t trust everyone else does.

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   • Horatio says:

     11/13/2009 at 8:17 pm

     Anyone who stops for someone standing on a curb in my area… is following the law of New York State –> and that’s not in Canada.

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     • Jim says:

       11/13/2009 at 10:49 pm

       It’s the law in most states, and I think it should be followed even though it isn’t followed in most places. The reason that I bring it up is that where I just moved in Maine, people actually stop for pedestrians, who wave at the car, then the car waves at the people. It was a shock, because I’m used to being in cities where you can tell that someone was killed at a spot recently because, in addition to the road sign declaring a crosswalk, there’s a flashing light too, which people also ignore.

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