On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 21:19, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoni...@tutanota.com> wrote:
> > Can you have zebra stripes without lights or are they only ever present > with lights? > You can have zebra stripes with lights and without lights. > > If you can have zebra stripes without lights that mean something different > to zebra stripes > with lights, that could be a problem for the blind. > > Main difference is that without traffic lights who can move depends on > situation > (neither drivers nor pedestrians have absolute priority), with lights who > can legally enter > is marked by traffic lights. > > If zebras only occur in Poland with lights then it's just a > crossing=traffic_lights. > > Unfortunately - not only. > OK then, you've said you can have lights without stripes. Is there any legal difference in the way pedestrians/motorists interact with and without stripes? If not, then the stripes are cosmetic, not functional. However, they still pose a problem for the blind. With macular degeneration you might be able to make out stripes but not see the signals. Which would mean that without OSM making a distinction they wouldn't know which type of crossing it was. But right now they have that problem anyway, and if it was a serious concern I'd hope Poland would have done something about it by now. If I understand correctly, they don't have right of way in stripes alone and only have right of way at lights if the light changes and/or audible or other alert, so they're not going to walk into traffic whichever type of crossing they encounter. -- Paul
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