On May 24, 2019 4:08:45 PM CDT, Jmapb <jm...@gmx.com> wrote:
>On 5/24/2019 4:28 PM, Jmapb wrote:
>>
>> On 5/24/2019 4:10 PM, Paul Allen wrote:
>>
>>> Have you ever seen a crossing with lights AND zebra stripes?
>>>
>>> This is a very popular situation in Poland.
>>>
>>>
>>> I knew there'd be at least one. :)
>>
>> It's common in the USA too.
>>
>>> OK, so let me ask this. Do zebra stripes on their own have any
>legal
>>> significance? Can
>>> you have zebra stripes without lights or are they only ever present
>>> with lights?
>>
>> In *my* experience in the USA, stripes are basically there to give
>> drivers a visual clue to look out for pedestrians and not to block
>the
>> crosswalk, and thus to inform crossing pedestrians where on the
>> pavement is safest. Of course these marking and the relevant laws are
>> decided on a local level, so officially there may be many differing
>> legal meanings to the stripes.
>>
>Just to be clear -- zebra stripes occur at both with stop signs and
>with
>traffic lights. At a stop sign, pedestrians always have right of way.
>At
>traffic lights, pedestrians only have the right of way when obeying the
>lights.
>
>In some localities zebra stripes may also be used for pedestrian
>crossings that are specifically signed on the roadway to let drivers
>know that pedestrians have the right of way at all times.
>
>But unstriped crossings are also used in all of these very same
>scenarios! So the stripes themselves have no universal legal meaning on
>their own.
>
>(I'm not aware of anywhere in the USA where there are stripes without
>traffic signs/signals. I'm sure this exists somewhere but if I saw it
>I'd think that a sign was missing.)
>
>J
There is at least one such crossing near the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1001
Bissonnet Street).
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