Cycling in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

These posts have me wondering - I've never heard the term "shark teeth" and I can't say they're familiar to me from my driving - I guess I just never noticed them.  I gather from looking it up that they're supposed to mark the spot where you stop when yielding to pedestrians?

Actually they're more general than that, I first saw them in Europe, but they have been adopted here in a few places.  Generally they show who is supposed to yield. When you face sharks teeth, you yield to cross traffic, wherever it is.

Unfortunately, Ontario also uses sharks teeth facing the other direction to denote vertical deflection (Europe uses piano keys for the same purpose).  This means I doubt sharks teeth will ever be broadly understood.