Neat! I've been seeing those FHWA guidelines in various state regulation PDFs, didn't know they were coming from the feds.
On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 7:09 PM Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote: > > > On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 6:27 PM Nick Bolten <nbol...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Well, now I'm having trouble finding any real regulations saying so, so >> take that with a grain of salt. I think someone from Austin, TX told me >> that once... >> >> I believe the primary stated purpose of bars on a crosswalk is increased >> visibility to cars. >> >> That's what I've read [1] although the markings tend to make pedestrians > less observant. Also note that their should also be a stop behind line, as > someone in Santa Clara has been adding. The crosswalk should be after the > stop behind line. > > Another good source, for the US at least, is the Manual on Traffic Control > Devices [2]. Crosswalks start around pg 385. > > > [1] > http://highstreethill.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/DPW-Crosswalk-Policy.pdf > [2] https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/pdfs/2009r1r2/mutcd2009r1r2edition.pdf > > -- > @osm_washington > www.snowandsnow.us > OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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