From: ahk@chinet.com
Benjamin.Kubelsky wrote:
>On 6/21/2014 9:25 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>Stephen Sprunk wrote:
>>>On 21-Jun-14 23:15, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>>>hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>>>>>By the way, transit companies lead the way in the 1920s for better
>>>>>pedestrian safety, such as crossing in crosswalks and not jay
>>>>>walking.
>>>>Sigh. Crossing other than at a crosswalk is not jaywalking. It's
>>>>perfectly legal and safe to cross between intersections upon
>>>>yielding to traffic; that's not jaywalking.
>>>Perhaps it's legal in your state. . . .
>>It's legal everywhere but Texas. Yes, I should have qualified as Texas
>>is always special.
>As I learned decades ago in traffic school, in California it is legal to
>cross the street mid-block except:
>On divided highways (where there's a median island)
>or between two traffic lights where there is no cross street between the
>lights. Not the best description, I know. Simply, if there is a traffic
>light at each end of the block, you can't cross mid-block.
Is "block" defined as a specific distance, or any length of highway with
no intersections? No pedestrian can be expected to walk any significant
distance out of his way like that.
I guess I don't see why it should be prevented on a divided highway, given
that the median actually gives the pedestrian a refuge. It's fun crossing
a busy street without a median, having to stand in the middle of the street
till traffic in the other direction clears.
>Oh, and of course, you must yield to traffic.
Yes: The pedestrian yielding to traffic is what makes it not jaywalking;
jaywalking is failure to yield to traffic with right of way.
>All of the above are widely ignored, and rarely enforced.
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