<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 06:37, stevea <<a href="mailto:steveaOSM@softworkers.com">steveaOSM@softworkers.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">This is problematic to my thinking. In California (my state), at an UNCONTROLLED intersection (no traffic_signal, stop sign, other traffic control device...), for example where the sidewalk "would continue to another sidewalk on the other side of the roadway," pedestrians ALWAYS have the right-of-way (over all vehicles) when they indicate it. How do they indicate it? By lifting one foot to step towards / into the intersection (from the sidewalk). Drivers must (by law) stop short of entering the intersection to allow the pedestrian to cross, once a pedestrian has so entered the crossing (even it if is unmarked or "invisible").<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Australia goes even a bit further in that pedestrians always have right-of-way, regardless of crossings (marked or unmarked) or not.<br></div><div><br></div><div></div><div><a href="https://roadsafety.transport.nsw.gov.au/stayingsafe/pedestrians/needtoknow/index.html">https://roadsafety.transport.nsw.gov.au/stayingsafe/pedestrians/needtoknow/index.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>"
Drivers must give way to pedestrians crossing the road into which their
vehicles are turning. You must also give way to pedestrians if there is a
danger of colliding with them, even if there is no marked pedestrian
crossing.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks<div><br></div><div>Graeme</div></div><br></div></div>