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To: SatinDoll
The pedestrians ALWAYS have the right of way in most places ~ when you visit DC you'll probably pick up a couple of $1300 tickets for "cutting off a pedestrian" if you imagine they DON'T have the right of way. The marked pedestrian crosswalks are just for decoration! They own the whole road.

Plus, when they enter the road on a green they get green all the way across ~ not just half way. The cops give tickets in MD, VA and DC on that one when a car darts across before a pedestrian has cleared the road.

New York is different. They cross in the middle of the block as a matter of course and I know a New Yorker who once pulled a jaywalking ticket in downtown DC for the middle of the block trick. Which means this ~ even though the pedestrians around here are jaywalking, and can be ticketed for it, you as a motorist are simply not permitted to run them down.

32 posted on 03/12/2011 5:43:19 PM PST by muawiyah (Make America Safe For Americans)
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To: muawiyah

We have the same laws in Washington State. That doesn’t prevent the occasional motorist who doesn’t see the arrogant jerk crossing against a red light.


34 posted on 03/12/2011 6:11:39 PM PST by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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