crosswalk

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I agree, but there's this other thing:I'm a pedestrian and in the crosswalk.

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Quick take

a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other

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noun

a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for crosswalk.

noun

a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other

Example sentences

I agree, but there's this other thing:I'm a pedestrian and in the crosswalk.

Another person waved at her and they approached each other in the middle of a crosswalk.

Predictability and not jumping in front of cars is unrelated to not being in a crosswalk.

Pedestrians doing the same to motion cars through intersections even as they are in the middle of a crosswalk.

Actually, walking down the street is the speech-to-text situation for me. Sending a quick text or Gtalk reply with voice is a hell of a lot easier and safer than trying to pound one out when I'm in the crosswalk.

This is when someone is turning left and doesn't notice pedestrians in the crosswalk moving across the street the driver is turning onto.

The fact that she was convicted at all defies logic - how would her and her children being on crosswalk have stopped the drunk driver which had 2 previous hit-and-runs ?

Just last week, a car accidentally drove up on the side walk part of the crosswalk and would have hit me had I not been paying attention and jumped out of the way. From what I understand this is not an uncommon event either.

I've nearly been run down in a crosswalk at a four-way stop sign by drivers who simply decided that they did not need to look forward while going through the intersection.

In Raleigh you have to wait at a crosswalk until it's all clear in all directions, even if that takes a few cycles of the stoplight, and jog across before more traffic comes.

All of these have fluorescent signs placed in the middle of the road, reminding drivers that pedestrians have the right of way. However, you can routinely wait at one of these crosswalks longer than it would take to walk to an intersection and wait for the light to change.

Every now and then, someone will do something like ignore the "yield to pedestrians" sign on a crosswalk, and come a little too close to clipping my daughter's stroller.

Two weeks ago my family travelled to California for a vacation, and while walking around they marveled at the way cars would stop for pedestrians waiting at crosswalks.

You need to do nothing more than approach a crosswalk and every car in every direction will stop and wait for you to cross -- people even insist that you cross and will stop their cars while in mid-turn.