It's a pity the footage cant be used to report the driver and have them. prosecuted: (
I love watching Cycling Mikey in London, UK reporting endless drivers he records and the salty tears from drivers reported for breaking the road rules there.
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Yulp. Hasn’t changed a bit since I lived there.
No light, no stop sign, only the requirement to stop for pedestrians and not even a light for them. And, since it's Chicago, I'm guessing that road always has cars on it.
I would never use that crosswalk.
There should be a light there. But, more than that, since it's a residential street with a park, the speed limit should be 25MPH, and there's no reason for it to be three lanes. Furthermore, that red car turning left needs to look past the trees and wall in the median on the right, and account for six lanes of traffic, again without a light.
I'm guessing that red in the road near the crosswalk is paint, but it might as well be blood.
Set up a brick container on both sides holding hall passes.
Edit: See edit at the end. I was working on incomplete information.
Looked it up, and here's what Illinois traffic law has to say:
A driver must come to a complete stop (and yield):
- When a pedestrian is in a marked crosswalk [notably, this one is marked as a "zebra crossing"].
- On school days, when children are in close proximity to a school zone crosswalk.
So you technically don't have to stop until a regular pedestrian steps into the crosswalk, but once they decide to enter, you have to stop your shit.
Additionally:
A driver must yield:
- When a pedestrian is in an unmarked crosswalk on the driver’s side of the roadway, and there are no traffic control signals.
- When making a turn at any intersection.
- When making a lawful turn on a red light after coming to a complete stop.
- After coming to a complete stop at a stop sign or flashing red signal at an intersection.
- When a pedestrian enters a crosswalk before the traffic light changes.
- When a pedestrian walks with a green light, to a “walking person” symbol or to a “walk” signal.
- When a pedestrian leaves or enters a street or highway from an alley, building, private road, or driveway.
- When a pedestrian enters an intersection with a flashing yellow arrow.
- To a person with disabilities, including physical, hearing and visual disabilities.
Only the last person was driving illegally, but I think the other people who didn't stop were being dicks.
Edit: I dug further (i.e. into the compiled statutes and not just a handbook) and found more:
Whenever any vehicle is stopped at a marked crosswalk or at any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection to permit a pedestrian to cross the roadway, the driver of any other vehicle approaching from the rear shall not overtake and pass such stopped vehicle.
So actually, the second-to-last car was violating traffic law too. The other two could be debated given the middle car wasn't yet "stopped", but it sure was still a diiiiick move.
Interesting. In California you are required to stop if someone else stops at a crosswalk for this exact reason. I'm surprised Illinois doesn't have such a law.
I response to your comment, I looked in the compiled statutes, and such a law exists. I guess it just isn't mentioned in the handbook.
625 ILCS 5/11-1002(d), which I quoted in an edit.
So it's pointless then.
Literally they exist for one situation...
person walks onto street
"I'm gonna hit that idiot. Oh, dang! They're on a crosswalk so I'm not allowed to."
That's the logic.
This is why some city slap speed bump everywhere because asshole won't slow down.
Raised crosswalks are getting more popular for the same reason
My area has a bunch of these crosswalks on six lane 40 MPH / 65 km/h streets and I never dare to use them.
We've got one that's 45 mph, well known for pedestrian hits. Runs through poor housing areas where people tend to walk to places. But there are lights and crosswalks, so it's got that over this place.
Y'all need some crossing bricks.
I don't trust crosswalks at all. I'll just wave the cars past and wait for no cars.
All the car waiting for them did is create a blind spot.
Why the fuck is there even a crossing without lights on a 3 lane road? America's roads are all kind of fucked up.
That's what I thought. Rarely I'll see one on a two-lane, usually they are set up with lights. This six-lane avenue? That's likely getting an overpass, lights as minimum.
This is road engineering so stupid, I wouldn't have believed it were a real thing, but here's a video.
Not surprised Americans are this much against cars if that is how you drive lmaoo.
Don't do that. Don't provide me with idiotsincars again. My blood pressure just settled from when last I was there.
I feel like that's a problem in most major cities, or just on wider thoroughfares in general.
A crosswalk with a light was installed on my block for this very reason, but good luck having cars actually stop when you activate it.
Not specifically pedestrian-related, but I lived near Columbus, Ohio for a few years, and it was an issue in various areas. They had to install a traffic light in between two other near the job I had, there, because entire trains of vehicles would just run the turn signal.
People just seem to progressively care less and less as time goes on.
You mean by walking across the street without looking and acknowledging oncoming traffic?
Like fuck these drivers, and this intersection/crosswalk, but the guy is not even looking where he's going...
Like fuck these drivers, and this intersection/crosswalk, but the guy is not even looking where he's going...
yeah, if she was wearing a short skirt she was looking to be raped /s
fuck the victim blaming dude, car drivers should be paying attention and should have stopped precisely because of that reason, what if it was a kid who pulls away from their mothers hand and runs across ? McDickhead driver is in charge of a 2t monstrosities.