Once I looked at the article, it looks like people are randomly painting crosswalks where they randomly decide to put them. Before looking at the article, I thought they were REPAINTING ones that needed to be touched up, which would be different than creating their own.
I am not sure it is about unions vs private citizens, but this is JMHO.
I was wondering about that. You can’t just paint a crosswalk anywhere you like, or they’d be all over the place. And a likely result is that people would start to ignore them, which would be dangerous.
On the other hand, the one shown in the picture at the top seems legitimate. You can see that the sidewalk along the side of the park has a bit of asphalt that comes out to the street, indicating that it was intended to provide pedestrian access to the park at that spot.