This happens virtually every single day. Drivers in Chicago would rather commit vehicular manslaughter than wait 5 seconds for someone to cross.
This happens virtually every single day. Drivers in Chicago would rather commit vehicular manslaughter than wait 5 seconds for someone to cross.
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.
Even in Chicago drivers are required to yield to pedestrians at marked crosswalks.
From that video and given that not one but two cars passed when pedestrians were legally had priority to cross (for one car on the right, then the one on the left) plus the speed of the car on the left, clearly de facto stopping for pedestrians at crosswalks is optional.
Laws are only requirements if they’re enforced, otherwise they’re in practice only advices.
Set up a brick container on both sides holding hall passes.