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Originally Posted by SteelTown
I thing I noticed while at Kingston is that they have a lot of "Courtesy Crossing".
Cars don't absolutely have to stop but it's courtesy if you do and let the pedestrian cross. |
I call bullsiht on this. There's no such thing as a "courtesy crosswalk" except in the imagination of municipal civil servants.
A crosswalk
requires motorists to stop, according to the Ontario Highway Traffic Act:
140.1 (1) Subject to subsection (2), when a pedestrian or a person in a wheelchair crossing a roadway within a pedestrian crossover,
(a) is upon the half of the roadway upon which a vehicle or street car is travelling; or
(b) is upon half of the roadway and is approaching the other half of the roadway on which a vehicle or street car is approaching so closely to the pedestrian crossover as to endanger him or her, the driver of the vehicle or street car shall yield the right of way to the pedestrian or a person in a wheelchair by slowing down or stopping if necessary.