24 May 2019, 22:10 by pla16...@gmail.com:

> On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 21:00, Mateusz Konieczny <> matkoni...@tutanota.com 
> <mailto:matkoni...@tutanota.com>> > wrote:
>
>>
>> 24 May 2019, 21:52 by >> pla16...@gmail.com <mailto:pla16...@gmail.com>>> :
>>
>>> Motorists have right of way if their signal is green; pedestrians have 
>>> absolute
>>> right of way just by stepping on the crossing irrespective of the lights.  
>>> Does not compute.
>>>
>> Note that legal implications of zebra stripes differ vastly across the 
>> world. 
>>
>
> OK, so let me ask this.  Do zebra stripes on their own have any legal 
> significance?
>
Yes - it marks place as a pedestrian crossing with some legal implications
for pedestrians and drivers.

> Can you have zebra stripes without lights or are they only ever present with 
> lights?
>
You can have zebra stripes with lights and without lights.

> If you can have zebra stripes without lights that mean something different to 
> zebra stripes
> with lights, that could be a problem for the blind. 
>
Main difference is that without traffic lights who can move depends on situation
(neither drivers nor pedestrians have absolute priority), with lights who can 
legally enter 
is marked by traffic lights.

>  If zebras only occur in Poland with lights then it's just a 
> crossing=traffic_lights.
>
Unfortunately - not only.
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