06-09-2017, 01:44 PM
(06-09-2017, 11:55 AM)timc Wrote: People are already confused enough with crossings like the Spurline Trail at Union, where some pedestrians think they have the right of way, and some drivers agree and encourage them. And that is without stripes.
To help with the confusion, pedestrians do have the right of way at that crosswalk since it is a crosswalk since the dots on the ground are "other markings on the surface". So that helps?
The law doesn't govern what drivers should do when a pedestrian hasn't yet entered the crosswalk. Drivers aren't under a legal obligation to slow and stop for crosswalks unless there are pedestrians already within them (as far as I've read).
Whether they can or should...? *shrug* It's beyond me.