In NY you have to stop for pedestrians in crosswalks. I was just shopping on my lunch break and walked in a properly marked crosswalk with a big sign that says "STOP for pedestrians in crosswalk" and a woman missed me by inches as she flew through it. Ignoring the fact that she was flying in a busy parking lot, is the crosswalk rule different in other states? One of these days I'm going to get hit.
Re: Crosswalk question/rant
Me too. In a shopping plaza, I always wait and look the person in the eye until they slow down or stop.
This. I have lived in CO my entire life and I have never had a problem with people stopping at the crosswalk when I am crossing.
I would probably get ran over in another state that didn't have this rule because I am just so used to it!
The cyclists are the ones that are gonna eventually run me over. They are supposed to maintain the same laws as cars if they are on the roads. Yet everytime I try crossing at a stop sign where the car is patiently letting me cross some asshole on a bike tries to take me out.
So I'm part of a residents forum FB page for my town. Normally I try not to say much on there, but the other day I just had to.
This guy posted "OK- you all need to slow the hell down! Get off your phone, turn down your rap music, and pay attention. My girlfriend takes our baby for a walk and this is the 4th time that she's almost got hit by the Dollar Tree/ Panera Main Street entrance. If she gets hit, I will find you and kill you."
One person posted a meme of "keep calm and listen to rap music" which I thought was hilarious. Then another person said "threatening death on FB- that's bright". I said "I'm not arguing that people need to slow down but clearly she should walk a different route" (as it sounded like she was doing it for recreation and not like to get to work).
He got all pissed off and said WTF is wrong with you?! I said "She's the one who continues to put herself and child in a situation that's proven to be dangerous time and time again...but what's wrong with me?!" He was still pissy saying "that's fucked up man". And I'm just like ok but which is going to be more beneficial to your girlfriend- you making a FB post, or her walking a different route?
In AZ state law requires that you stop for pedestrians in a crosswalk. Whether people actually do that depends on where you are. I've seen some areas that are very good about stopping and some areas where people don't stop at all. In Tempe, they have started putting blinking red lights at some crosswalks along a pedestrian trail, so when a person wants to cross, they press the button and it gives cars blinking red light to stop until crosswalk is clear. That seems to be pretty effective and I wish they put more of them up. But, it's not effective to put them everywhere either.
In Boston, we cross wherever we want, as long as it's clear of cars. We don't need a crosswalk.
@arrippa YUP. When I moved to AZ, my friends screamed at me for "jay-walking". I was like wtf are you talking about- no one is coming so just cross. They were like nooooo you have to walk all the way down there to the crosswalk and you have to wait for the "walk" signal. I'm like yeaaaa people in Boston don't have time for that shit, we just bolt whenever and wherever we want! lol
I live in the city and people park on both of sides of the road. Rather than using the cross walks people will pop out from between these cars and start walking across the road. I absolutely hate it because I'm driving the speed limit (or lower depending on where I am) and I could still get burned because some jerk couldn't use the damn cross walk that was established for the pedestrian and driver's benefit. So I just drive extra slow in case they want to cross at a random spot so I can avoid hitting them by accident. Oh and they will do it at night which makes it more dangerous. I have tried to find routes that avoid this but living in the middle of the city doesn't really help. I can't wait to move.
YES to all of this! Downtown Toronto is hilarious because drivers literally can't get anywhere because humans and bikes are just walking/cycling wherever they want and the cars can't do anything about it. As a pedestrian/cyclist I get around the downtown core much faster. BUT I hate most cyclists- they are so freaking dangerous because most of them only follow the rules of the road when it's convenient for them.
Biking with my SO is so infuriating because he NEVER stops at stop signs! Grr so dangerous.
Formerly martha1818
Dude shut up. This has absolutely 0% to do with rape so you can just stop with everything single thing being "blaming or shaming". Sometimes you have to admit that people really are just idiots and get what they have coming (in case I need to clarify, that is not in reference to rape in any way).