wibo@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 10 months agoif trains honk at every crossing (in the US), shouldn't cars be honking at every crosswalk?message-squaremessage-square57fedilinkarrow-up1111arrow-down148
arrow-up163arrow-down1message-squareif trains honk at every crossing (in the US), shouldn't cars be honking at every crosswalk?wibo@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square57fedilink
minus-squareExcrubulentlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoI remember in NJ USA as a kid being told that cars didn’t have to stop at zebra crossings. I don’t know if it was true, I wasn’t skeptically investigating things when I was 7. The best I could find was this blog talking about how the rules say they should stop, but they frequently don’t: https://www.expataussieinnj.com/understanding-road-rules-for-pedestrians-in-nj/ So maybe the rules are one way, but the locals don’t follow it so you can’t treat the rule as being in place.
I remember in NJ USA as a kid being told that cars didn’t have to stop at zebra crossings. I don’t know if it was true, I wasn’t skeptically investigating things when I was 7.
The best I could find was this blog talking about how the rules say they should stop, but they frequently don’t: https://www.expataussieinnj.com/understanding-road-rules-for-pedestrians-in-nj/
So maybe the rules are one way, but the locals don’t follow it so you can’t treat the rule as being in place.