[Tagging] Non-orthogonal crossing=* tag proposals: crossing=marked/unmarked vs crossing:markings=yes/no

[Nick Bolten]

Neat! I've been seeing those FHWA guidelines in various state regulation
PDFs, didn't know they were coming from the feds.

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 7:09 PM Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>
wrote:

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>
> On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 6:27 PM Nick Bolten <nbolten at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, now I'm having trouble finding any real regulations saying so, so
>> take that with a grain of salt. I think someone from Austin, TX told me
>> that once...
>>
>> I believe the primary stated purpose of bars on a crosswalk is increased
>> visibility to cars.
>>
>> That's what I've read [1] although the markings tend to make pedestrians
> less observant. Also note that their should also be a stop behind line, as
> someone in Santa Clara has been adding. The crosswalk should be after the
> stop behind line.
>
> Another good source, for the US at least, is the Manual on Traffic Control
> Devices [2]. Crosswalks start around pg 385.
>
>
> [1]
> http://highstreethill.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/DPW-Crosswalk-Policy.pdf
> [2]  https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/2009r1r2/mutcd2009r1r2edition.pdf
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