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<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div class="gmail_quote">On May 24, 2019 4:08:45 PM CDT, Jmapb <jmapb@gmx.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p>On 5/24/2019 4:10 PM, Paul Allen wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Have you ever seen a crossing with
lights AND zebra stripes? <br>
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<div>This is a very popular situation in Poland.<br>
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<div>I knew there'd be at least one. :)</div>
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<p>It's common in the USA too.<br>
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<div>OK, so let me ask this. Do zebra stripes on their own
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<div>you have zebra stripes without lights or are they only
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<p>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.<br>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.<br>
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<p>(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.)<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all">There is at least one such crossing near the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1001 Bissonnet Street).<br>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</body></html>