• burntbutterbiscuits@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    In a lot of places you can legally cross the street at the corner regardless of whether there is a crosswalk and drivers are legally required to stop.

    But yea if they don’t stop and you are dead you’re dying words can be, “I had the right of way, motherfuh- cough cough”

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      11 months ago

      Yep here in BC any crossroads is also considered an unmarked crosswalk for pedestrians. My wife and I were crossing like this, no traffic even, and a cop coming up the sidestreet rolled down his window and yelled there is a crosswalk down there pointing 2 blocks down the street. He was getting irritated we weren’t turning back to go use the marked walk. (Read your own lawbook dude.)

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      11 months ago

      Yep here in BC any crossroads is also considered an unmarked crosswalk for pedestrians. My wife and I were crossing like this, no traffic even, and a cop coming up the sidestreet rolled down his window and yelled there is a crosswalk down there pointing 2 blocks down the street. He was getting irritated we weren’t turning back to go use the marked walk. (Read your own lawbook dude.)

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      11 months ago

      Yep here in BC any crossroads is also considered an unmarked crosswalk for pedestrians. My wife and I were crossing like this, no traffic even, and a cop coming up the sidestreet rolled down his window and yelled there is a crosswalk down there pointing 2 blocks down the street. He was getting irritated we weren’t turning back to go use the marked walk. (Read your own lawbook dude.)