Instead, the crosswalks were cleaned and Lethbridge held a first-ever Trans March walking across the crosswalks yesterday.
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They want the crosswalks in Ames, Iowa, to look just like the crosswalks in Ames, Texas, and like those in Franklin, Texas, and Franklin, Maine.
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"There were no reported collisions involving pedestrians at the colorful crosswalks during the first year," he said, though there were pedestrian collisions at nearby traditional crosswalks.
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According to federal rules, crosswalks can only use white paint.
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Why federal engineers have a big problem with rainbow crosswalks.
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Plus, haven't men had enough time repping pedestrians at crosswalks?
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Use seatbelts, wear helmets on bicycles and use crosswalks when walking.
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The painted crosswalks appear to be three-dimensional ramps or blocks.
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New city blocks have been built, crosswalks and streetlights erected overnight.
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He says artistic crosswalks build a sense of community around the intersections.
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AAA is warning drivers and walkers alike to exercise caution at crosswalks.
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BMW drivers are much less likely to brake for pedestrians at crosswalks.
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She fought for more sidewalks, crosswalks and streetlamps in east side neighborhoods.
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Have you ever wondered what those yellow, studded strips are at crosswalks?
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At major intersections, drivers routinely zoom through red lights or block crosswalks.
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I often see cyclists roll through stops when pedestrians are in crosswalks.
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The configuration of crosswalks is not something most pedestrians will consciously notice.
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They unblock crosswalks and intersections, deter jaywalking and even help to lessen honking.
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Some traffic signals have been reconfigured to give pedestrians head starts at crosswalks.
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Jerusalem, he said, also has complicated merging situations and people walking outside of crosswalks.
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The city council ignored the warning and has kept the colorful crosswalks in place.
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This includes infrastructural changes like slower speed limits, narrower streets, better crosswalks, and—yes!
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Cities around the world are using optical illusion crosswalks to make drivers slow down.
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Some pedestrians staring at the vehicles seemed slow to move out of the crosswalks.
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The colored tiles are often found at the edges of railway platforms or crosswalks.
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But crosswalks are only permitted to be painted in white, according to federal rules.
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During the chase, the truck deliberately attempts to hit pedestrians in crosswalks and alleys.
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The other day residents walked briskly in the crosswalks past multiple lanes of traffic.
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In those shared spaces, it's usually cobblestone, or raised crosswalks, speed bumps where they're needed.
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On the streets, a child-friendly city needs sufficient pedestrian crosswalks, crossing guards, and more.
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So far, 1,100 safety improvements ranging from crosswalks to pedestrian rescue islands have been installed.
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More crosswalks were added and fencing installed along the entire boulevard to deter jay walking.
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The firm also expanded crosswalks to 40 feet wide, to keep people from clustering at corners.
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Demonstrators sat in the middle of streets and crosswalks, halting traffic in a number of cities.
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To celebrate, officials in Lethbridge, Canada painted LGBTQ and transgender Pride flags on crosswalks in town.
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As part of the program, Chariot cannot make stops in crosswalks, traffic lanes and Muni stops.
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And in Shanghai, facial recognition systems have been installed at some crosswalks to single out jaywalkers.
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Her end-of-semester assignment was an evaluation of campus crosswalks unfriendly to visually impaired students.
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The roads look like any other in the city, with stop lights, crosswalks and traffic signs.
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No one knows for sure, but several crosswalks appear to be giving the middle finger in Houston.
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The broad Mokhovaya Street stood in my way, imposing, and there were no crosswalks to be found.
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Another elementary school class in Little Rock, Arkansas, painted three-dimensional crosswalks in front of their school.
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But after improvements were made in 2014, including extended curbs and extra crosswalks, the accident rate fell.
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"A lot of the concern is based on subjective nature," he said of the artfully painted crosswalks.
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Community leaders have denounced proposals for bike lanes and crosswalks when they require removing lanes for cars.
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Uber's self-driving software wasn't designed to expect that pedestrians outside crosswalks may be crossing the street.
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City officials, public artists, and the highway honchos have spent years in a nationwide battle over artistic crosswalks.
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Lambert, the city attorney, says the city council was making a point when it approved the colorful crosswalks.
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Without designated docking stations for e-scooters, they can end up in a pile, obstructing sidewalks and crosswalks.
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Dongho Chang, the city's traffic engineer, said his department had been monitoring areas where nontraditional crosswalks were installed.
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Many crosswalks have textured pavement and audio recordings so that the sight-impaired can safely cross the street.
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Bus canopies, sections of curb and pedestrian crosswalks had to be removed because they protruded into the course.
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Crosswalks were originally designed with the expectation that the people who used them would look where they were going.
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What's more, the agency won't force the city to repaint the crosswalks or fine the city for keeping them.
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The federal government hasn't even asked Atlanta to remove its crosswalks, but if they did, Mayor Bottoms wouldn't budge.
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The agency set its guidelines for crosswalks based on studies that examined their design, placement and visibility, among others.
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"It is dangerous to cross roadways in the evening hour when well-illuminated, managed crosswalks are available," she said.
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Less than a week after they were painted, though, the crosswalks were marred with skid marks, tar, and manure.
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During the chase, the truck deliberately attempts to hit pedestrians in crosswalks and alleys, injuring at least four pedestrians.
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Winter was Bill's favorite time because after a big snowstorm there would be mounds of snow at the crosswalks.
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The announcement comes the same week another city denied the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) request to remove its rainbow crosswalks.
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According to the agency's Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, colorful pavement can obscure white safety lines recognized as crosswalks.
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So the highway agency sent Ames officials a letter warning them that the crosswalks did not comply with federal guidelines.
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In Ahmedabad for instance, a mother-daughter artist duo has painted 3D crosswalks in the first few months of 2016.
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Pedestrian traffic signals featuring a series of Valentine's Day-inspired images are operating at 45 crosswalks in #Pingtung, southern #Taiwan.
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That's why German public transportation provider Stadtwerke Augsburg embedded traffic lights in some city crosswalks around the country in April.
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He has a recurring sketch called Crosswalk the Musical where he dresses up and sings in the middle of crosswalks.
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Left with a paucity of government services, the crosswalks wore away, stoplights broke, and kids drove without shoes or licenses.
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But like crosswalks, the safety of the bike lanes depends on the cooperation of motorists who often cross the boundaries.
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On the tech side, Uber hadn't programmed the SUV that killed Elaine Herzberg to look for pedestrians outside of crosswalks.
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This could lead to a lot of new white elephants like ADA-compliant crosswalks through cornfields, (yeah that really happens).
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That data is combined with traffic control information like signs, the lengths of crosswalks and the locations of traffic lights.
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It would turn the Sheridan from an interstate highway into Sheridan Boulevard, with landscaped medians and at least two crosswalks.
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Ames, Iowa, painted its first crosswalks with the colors of the gay, gender non-binary and transgender pride flags in September.
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In the wake of the storm, the city began hiring temporary "snow laborers" to shovel out hydrants, crosswalks and other spaces.
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That means building sidewalks, making sure crosswalks are visible and well-lit, and preventing people from speeding or driving while intoxicated.
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Mr. White said too many roads lacked safety improvements like protected bike lanes, pedestrian safety islands and greater visibility at crosswalks.
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The institute is calling for city and state governments to do a better job lighting and designating intersections and pedestrian crosswalks.
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The commonwealth is the first state to pass legislation allowing delivery robots to operate on sidewalks and crosswalks across the state.
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Dulce Gutiérrez fought for more sidewalks, crosswalks and street lamps in east side neighborhoods while serving on the Yakima City Council.
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Imagine walking down a city street with a bicycle behind you and cars beside you, without any designated lanes or crosswalks.
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They hang from traffic lights, intersections, crosswalks; on trees, fences, and subway cars; even inside your taxi or your apartment building.
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Pedestrians glued to their handhelds have become a public hazard in major cities, a distracted bulls-eye for cars in crosswalks.
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This precise configuration — the ramp, the can, the post, their spacing and appearance — is replicated at new crosswalks throughout the city.
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The very fact that these crosswalks are getting people to think about pedestrian safety is encouraging, says traffic safety consultant Pam Fischer.
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Entering a whole new city will allow Google to play around with a new set of urban infrastructure: stoplights, signage, crosswalks, etc.
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I park my car, use the crosswalk (does anyone else fear crosswalks?), scan in, and then climb up stairs to my floor
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Woolf is a wristband that will alert bikers of speed traps, red light cameras, and upcoming crosswalks using different levels of vibrations.
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During the chase, the truck deliberately attempted to hit pedestrians in crosswalks and alleys in two areas along Jasper Avenue, Knecht said.
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In Kerman, outside Fresno, city officials said they would enliven sidewalks and crosswalks with interactive designs like hot lava and hopscotch squares.
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After her presentation, her professor wondered if crosswalks deep inside the campus were more problematic than ones in areas popular with visitors.
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The tickets mostly came from ignored "no parking" signs, parking in spots reserved for residents, or blocking crosswalks and obstructing pedestrians' paths.
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In 2012, the New York City Department of Transportation installed traffic lights and crosswalks, formalizing the route as 6 1/2 Avenue.
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"There is chaos in the crosswalks," said Mr. Canepa, who admits to a few close calls with distracted driving and walking himself.
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In any single week, hundreds of drivers exceed speed limits, run lights, creep into pedestrian crosswalks and double-park in bike lanes.
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The bills would also require enforcement officers to call for towing any vehicle blocking bike and bus lanes, crosswalks or fire hydrants.
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Nowadays, you can find the thylacine on beer cans and bottles of sparkling water; one northern town replaced its crosswalks with tiger stripes.
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An elementary school class in Little Rock, Arkansas, painted three-dimensional crosswalks in front of their school to trick cars into slowing down.
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The Alamitos Beach neighborhood has pride flags flying outside numerous bars and restaurants, and rainbow crosswalks are painted in intersections along East Broadway.
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The Federal Highway Administration, which sets the rules for the nation's roadway signage and signals, made a "request" that the crosswalks be removed.
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The board also found that Uber's autonomous vehicles were not properly programmed to react to pedestrians crossing the street outside of designated crosswalks.
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Two crosswalks in Ames use the colors in the inclusive LGBT Pride flag, which adds brown and black to the 1970s rainbow design.
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Ohio is now the fifth U.S. state to pass a law permitting the use of delivery robots on sidewalks and in crosswalks statewide.
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On the positive side, the sources noted, state policies that promoted speed limits, sidewalks and crosswalks helped the Complete Streets change to be accepted.
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"Neckdown" is a somewhat wonky term used by traffic engineers for the extended pedestrian areas you'll see at crosswalks, says Clarence Eckerson of Streetsfilm.
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But autonomous technology companies still need humans to inform the AI what it's looking at — to circle things like trees, stop signs and crosswalks.
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While it's certainly possible that the original wear wasn't rooted in hate, the crosswalks were later defaced again — this time with tar and manure.
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It never guessed Herzberg was on foot for a simple, galling reason: Uber didn't tell its car to look for pedestrians outside of crosswalks.
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Uber's autonomous car couldn't detect pedestrians outside crosswalks when it hit and killed a person jaywalking a bicycle across a road in Tempe, Ariz.
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Today the governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, signed a new law permitting the use of delivery robots on crosswalks and sidewalks across the state.
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The head start does not address a reality of city streets: impatient New Yorkers who insist on crossing against the light or outside crosswalks.
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In February 2016, St. Louis let its fleur-de-lis and rainbow crosswalks fade away after the federal government asked that they be removed.
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Scooters whiz down sidewalks and cars often park randomly, even on crosswalks, giving daily life in Beijing the feeling of a hectic video game.
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That pressure led to a federally funded study by city planners in 2013 that recommended transforming the Sheridan by installing traffic lights and crosswalks.
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Cities have adopted "vision zero" initiatives to reduce traffic deaths by installing crosswalks, bike lanes, and slowing down road speeds, but it still isn't safe.
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The town of Bodegraven in the Netherlands embedded LED lighting strips at crosswalks— near smartphone users' toes — to let them know when traffic lights change.
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For instance, one route might be shorter — but take the user along sloped or ill-maintained sidewalks with no curb cuts and no marked crosswalks.
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"We want to protect pedestrians both as they walk on our sidewalks but also on our crosswalks," the mayor said Thursday at a press conference.
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The city also appealed for emergency snow laborers to remove snow and ice from bus stops, crosswalks and fire hydrants, starting at $13.50 per hour.
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But the 140 cameras in the program are not enough for a city with more than 2,300 school zones, each surrounded by intersections and crosswalks.
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Stopping for pedestrians in crosswalks that are not controlled by traffic lights is a legal requirement in only nine states and the District of Columbia.
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These include: Energy efficient and more effective street lights would increase night visibility, which could improve safety for cyclists and those using sidewalks and crosswalks.
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Most door-close buttons in elevators and request-to-walk buttons at crosswalks serve no purpose other than to give us something to fidget with.
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Benches, crosswalks and shade trees have transformed a once-barren stretch of Manhattan near the Holland Tunnel into a welcoming neighborhood known as Hudson Square.
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Robots operating on sidewalks and crosswalks in Florida will not be allowed to weigh over 80 pounds or travel faster than 10 miles per hour.
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Much of the American road network was designed for cars, with inadequate crosswalks, sidewalks, lighting, and other elements that make it safe to stay on foot.
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The trouble started with the city's decision to repaint the crosswalks at a downtown intersection, using the patterns of the rainbow flag and transgender pride flag.
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These glacial paths are our street corners and crosswalks, now more reminiscent of mountain passes, often circled by moats of dirty slush water and icy walls.
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So they partnered with the Orlando police to conduct stings against drivers who whizz past plainclothes police officers posing as pedestrians in the middle of crosswalks.
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Japan offers some services for the physically disabled, including elevators in train stations and chirping sounds at crosswalks and the bottom of stairs for the blind.
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Crosswalks could incorporate more "curb cuts," which are built in ramps, and more audio announcements of light changes for people who are blind or low-vision.
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"We also encourage Ames to continue to do everything it can to support, encourage and celebrate diversity in our community," it said, "including painting more crosswalks."
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The little things that annoyed me off the mat — co-worker squabbles, rude drivers in other cars, people who don't stop at crosswalks — bothered me less.
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A city in central Iowa has refused a federal request to remove its rainbow-colored crosswalks at a downtown intersection meant to represent diversity and inclusiveness.
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There they try things like shopping, making appointments at a simulated dentist's office or navigating stoplights and crosswalks on 146 feet of a simulated city street.
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Today, Florida became the fourth state in the country to pass a statewide law permitting the use of unmanned delivery robots on sidewalks and in crosswalks.
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Do you think people are going to put down their phones at crosswalks and give up valuable seconds that could be spent potentially right-swiping their soulmate?
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He's also the founder of Atlanta Rainbow Crosswalks – an LGBTQ civil arts project which uses public art and community outreach to advance awareness of diversity and equality.
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The union said European buses typically have smaller mirrors with lower placement on the side of vehicles to give drivers unobstructed views of crosswalks and other surroundings.
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It functions as a pedestrian zone but feels like an eerily and inexplicably abandoned thoroughfare, since the paving is neatly stenciled with lanes, turning arrows and crosswalks.
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The mayor has pushed for upgrades at crosswalks, installed hundreds of speed cameras and agreed to a $1.7 billion plan for 250 miles of protected bike lanes.
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His studio sits beside a wide boulevard without nearby stop signs, red lights or crosswalks, so cars and trucks hurtle past day and night at terrifying speeds.
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Cars also will have antennas for sending and receiving data, a speaker for audio alerts and a short-range radio for communicating with other cars, lights and crosswalks.
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A statement from the police said that the crosswalks were "spread" with tar and manure, so it's hard to deny that it was a deliberate act of hate.
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In order to make the most of driverless technology, everything from intersections to speeds limits and crosswalks will have to be remade, and that's not a small task.
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"My advice is to wear glow-in-the-dark necklaces or bracelets, stay on sidewalks, cross streets together using crosswalks and not cross between parked cars," Denny said.
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If you'd like to see four minutes or so of AI learning to maneuver around city buses and not hit pedestrians in Tel Aviv crosswalks, here's a video.
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There are the talking vending machines, holographic crosswalks that force you to obey the law, and cars that look like they're about to start hovering above the street.
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According to WUSA9, most of the citations were for blocking crosswalks, obstructing pedestrian pathways, ignoring no-parking signs, or parking in spaces reserved for residents of the block.
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Electronics at crosswalks will be able to pick up the Wi-Fi signal from cellphones and alert approaching cars that a pedestrian is starting to cross the road.
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The flier highlights a specific drop-off and pick-up zone, and advises riders to cross streets at crosswalks, put down their phones and avoid excessive alcohol consumption.
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Many employees brazenly display the placards while parked illegally — including in crosswalks, on sidewalks and blocking bus and bike lanes — or while using personal vehicles when not working.
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Planners and a local arts group used green tempera paint, traffic tape, wooden crate planters, cones, and shipping pallets to create extra seating, crosswalks, curb extensions, and bicycle parking.
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Planners and a local arts group used green tempera paint, traffic tape, wooden crate planters, cones, and shipping pallets to create extra seating, crosswalks, curb extensions, and bicycle parking.
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Using crosswalks, wider sidewalks and traffic lights, these transportation engineers aim to make neighborhood traffic slow, safe, and friendly for pedestrians — not send frustrated commuters barreling down side roads.
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Other states, like Wisconsin and Florida, are currently considering near identical legislation, which allows sidewalk delivery robots to use crosswalks and sidewalks statewide without a person walking alongside them.
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"There are a lot of other traffic-calming devices, but art crosswalks in particular get a lot of attention because they are artistic and they look different," he says.
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As I struggled to cross the street with my daughter, I dreamed of heated crosswalks (like the radiant sidewalks luxury apartments now boast) powered by surplus Con Edison steam.
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New Yorkers can see the evidence of this approach in the new pedestrian spaces, shortened crosswalks, improved walking and biking infrastructure and neighborhood slow zones all over the city.
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While Starship isn't currently working in Virginia or Idaho, the company can now legally operate its robot in those states — without a person controlling it — on sidewalks and crosswalks.
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The Great Eastern Highway, four lanes of traffic with streetlights and crosswalks in Perth, narrows to two lanes long before it ends in Kalgoorlie 600 kilometers to the east.
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And it's just not feasible to build costly barriers in every single spot in a city, with officials pointing out that there still needs to be room for crosswalks.
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Then a student told the class that she herself had noticed how unsafe one of the crosswalks Ms. O'Reilly had mentioned was, even for students who are not impaired.
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"We hold the unfortunate distinction of being a major city with more pedestrians being hit in crosswalks, particularly our seniors, than almost any other city in the county," Caldwell said.
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For all the benefits of civic pride and creativity that reimagined crosswalks may provide, the question for the engineers who control the streets is whether they improve or impair safety.
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In Baltimore, public artist Graham Coreil-Allen has helped install several playfully designed crosswalks, from hopscotch patterns downtown to multicolored foot, hoof, bird and paw prints in a residential neighborhood.
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Public transportation provider Stadtwerke Augsburg recently outfitted the crosswalks of two rail stations with traffic lights, so those looking down at their phones can know if it's safe to cross.
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One of the designs fills the entire intersection at one of the city's 12 new "scramble crosswalks" — the kind that lets you cross the street every which way, including diagonally.
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Rather, the central problem is well-meaning white people like the drivers at those crosswalks: Many probably believe in racial equality, yet they unintentionally act in ways that perpetuate inequality.
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As a result, he wrote, the state should get to decide what colors the crosswalks are and whether the federal rules had to be imposed on its streets, CNN reports.
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As part of that initiative, the city has provided safety upgrades, like giving pedestrians head starts at crosswalks and installing an additional 224 speed cameras throughout the city this year.
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On the last point: Some engineers are trying to build more fun, friendly, and maybe even safer crosswalks, but the federal government—the same one that put out those safety stats!
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HAVANA — The streets brimmed with people going about their day, hauling handcarts of fruit down narrow side streets, shuffling along sun-faded esplanades, waiting impatiently at the crosswalks of busy intersections.
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Day acknowledged that plenty of people either don't know the law or willfully break it and speed through crosswalks, but the traffic stops appear to have made an impact, she said.
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Long Beach, West Hollywood and San Francisco are among the cities that have colored their crosswalks in recent years, though perhaps not quite on so grand a scale as Santa Monica.
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Designated ride-hailing pick-up and drop-off zones could keep cars out of bike lanes and crosswalks — and could incorporate ramps for wheelchair users and those with strollers and walkers.
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A few blocks down from the bridge, a new intersection with traffic signals and crosswalks has been created across from a busy subway station for the No. 4 and 5 lines.
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Two of the crosswalks in Ames feature the colors of the inclusive Pride flag, which adds black and brown to the rainbow LGBTQ Pride flag designed by Gilbert Baker in the 1970s.
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"Crosswalks should be sacred, safe spaces, but they too often are the location of crashes that kill and maim innocent New Yorkers that are trying to simply cross the streets," she said.
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The Seattle Department of Transportation has installed 40 artistic crosswalks, which include rainbow stripes and geometric designs created by local artists, and has started a formal program for communities to request one.
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If the plan is adopted, 80 residents would be trained to use their cellphones to snap photographs of vehicles parked illegally in crosswalks, bicycle lanes, fire lanes, bus stops and the like.
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His discourse on crosswalks comes amid a two-hour stroll filled with such details, each one revealing some new facet of the city's logic and history, like little veils being peeled away.
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Other pedestrians said they helped ensure a clear path across, took away the uncertainty of whether or not there was enough time to cross, and brought order to crosswalks that could turn chaotic.
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Amsterdam — Speed Kills and Shared Space American traffic laws require pedestrians to cross most streets in marked crosswalks, and painted and protected bike lanes are all the rage in United States cities today.
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Others include adding concrete islands, giving pedestrians a few seconds head start for crossing streets (so they don't get hit by turning cars), and more blinking-light crosswalks (as opposed to just painted lines).
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In support of both possibilities, "there is a theory that busy streets (such as those with streetlights and crosswalks) encourage interactions and vibrant communities that help promote social connections and reduce crime," Culyba said.
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Research shows left turns can be risky because they require the driver to cross oncoming traffic, and the pillar between the windshield and the door can make it harder to see pedestrians in crosswalks.
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In a letter dated September 5, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), a division of the US Department of Transportation, requested that the colorful crosswalks be removed because they didn't comply with federal traffic control standards.
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A 20-month investigation into the March 2018 crash of a self-driving Uber that killed a woman nears its end—and it turns out the car wasn't trained to recognize pedestrians outside of crosswalks.
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The city has been making progress toward reducing traffic deaths by providing safety upgrades, like so-called pedestrian head-starts at crosswalks, and reorienting what some safety advocates have called a car-dominated road culture.
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He has put nearly $700 million in this year's budget for the first phase of a $1.8 billion project to turn the expressway into a ground-level boulevard, with trees and crosswalks and grassy medians.
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And a federal lawsuit that a disability rights group filed against Bird, Lime, Razor, and the City of San Diego in January says that scooters are being left in front of wheelchair ramps, curbs, and crosswalks.
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Google has its own patent that contains a range of ideas, including light-up "walk" or "don't walk" signs on the car's body, image displays, and audible signals similar to the ones used at busy crosswalks.
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Mr. Marohn has found that many of the most helpful infrastructure fixes for impoverished towns and cities are small, low budget and gradual — such as doing street maintenance, planting trees, building crosswalks and cleaning up parks.
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As more pedestrians and cyclists share roads in urban areas, local officials have made attempts to involve communities in transportation infrastructure, like crosswalks, because they say it increases the health and well-being of the area.
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In addition, it proposes a host of design and safety improvements to the streets leading to and from all 13 bridges, including adding new bike lanes and crosswalks, widening sidewalks and carving out more pedestrian areas.
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The country's also deployed dancing aunties to promote road safety at crosswalks, and in January, a robot police officer was deployed at a traffic junction in Xiangyang, central China to stop errant pedestrians, and tell them off.
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Scott Gastel, a spokesman for the city's Transportation Department, said it had conducted research into pedestrian behavior at crosswalks and had monitored pedestrian volumes at 22016 street locations to track long-term trends in neighborhood commercial corridors.
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How does a robot, for example, tell everyone what it plans to do in intersections when human drivers and people in crosswalks go through an informal ballet to decide who will go first and who will yield?
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Similar to the Virginia legislation, local Idaho municipalities are allowed to adopt their own regulations, like if a town wants to prevent the operation of the robots in certain crosswalks or limit the speed of the devices.
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The "distracted pedestrian" law is needed because so many people in the city -- especially seniors -- are hit by vehicles in crosswalks, Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell said at a bill-signing ceremony at one of the city's busiest intersections.
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As any pedestrian can attest, simply crossing the street is often a near-death experience, with trucks and taxis plowing through crowded crosswalks with no concern for those they are almost running down or worry about getting caught.
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Ohio's new robot law allows for the machines to operate on sidewalks and in crosswalks in the state, so long as they weigh less than 90 pounds and travel at speeds of less than 10 miles per hour.
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A new law signed by the governor earlier this month will allow delivery robots, or personal delivery devises, to operate on sidewalks throughout the state, but the robots have to be courteous and use crosswalks just like everyone else.
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But numerous ice cream vendors — who owned or operated 76 trucks — worked out a strategy to dodge paying tickets for running red lights, using bus lanes and parking in crosswalks and in front of fire hydrants, city officials said.
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The G.R.D.C. is also in ongoing conversation with the city about small but powerful infrastructural changes like traffic-calming curb extensions, raised crosswalks, or grassy medians that will encourage people to slow down and perhaps even buy a book.
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But the scooters' popularity, and the relative lack of rules around their use, has prompted City Hall to impose overdue restrictions, with fines for driving them on the pavement or parking them in doorways, crosswalks and other busy places.
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The pickup suggestions are available in every market where Lyft operates, and spell out explicitly how much time you'll save by using them, accounting for walking time, and even factoring in stuff like time lost to crosswalks and traffic lights.
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Between June 2013 and December 2014, around 45 percent of drivers yielded to pedestrians on crosswalks on roads where the speed limit was 35 mph or less, an increase from 12 percent compared to 2012, claimed Bike/Walk Central Florida.
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Instead, bodies fill all available space, especially as people wait at crosswalks or peer around to see if they can walk against the light, and then come at you like a Roman phalanx with shoulder and shopping bags instead of shields.
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Read more:10 historical optical illusions that have been stumping people for decades12 mind-bending photos of optical illusion crosswalks that trick drivers into slowing down17 optical illusions you can actually visit in real lifeThe tallest building in every state, ranked
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Besides speed cameras, the city has reduced the speed limit in much of the city to 2052 miles per hour, has given pedestrians head starts at crosswalks and is spending $3153 billion to add 2315 miles of protected bike lanes.
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Upon hearing that New York State is proposing to turn the fenced-off road into a tree-lined boulevard with crosswalks leading to the banks of the Bronx River, Mr. Gales mulled, at length, the pros and cons of the idea.
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In New Brunswick, Noland noted, officials have studied how to transform a main four-lane road into a two-lane road with a middle turning lane, which could slow traffic and reduce deaths by inserting more crosswalks and changing out old street lights.
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Read more:13 mind-bending photos of optical illusion crosswalks that trick drivers into slowing downThis equation has 2 wildly different answers depending on what you learned in school, and it's dividing the internet10 riddles you can only solve if you're really smart
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That by itself would be cool, but by using ARM's Project Trillium AI platform, the Mapbox Vision SDK can also recognize other vehicles, pedestrians, speed limit signs, construction signs, crosswalks and more, all without having to train their own machine learning models to do so.
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Dozens of miles of bike lanes across New York City are intended to make its chaotic streets safer for the growing number of commuters and tourists who prefer to pedal around, the way that crosswalks are meant to carve out a safe space for pedestrians.
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Companies could lessen the creepiness by telling people their typing is seen in real time or could eliminate the send button altogether (but that would undoubtedly confuse people, as if the useless buttons in elevators to "close door" or the placebos to push at crosswalks disappeared overnight.).
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The car is extremely adept at staying squarely in its lane without ping-ponging back and forth, but it is also cautious in the extreme, stopping nine feet short of crosswalks and stubbornly refusing to go forward if a pedestrian looks poised to step off the sidewalk.
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Earlier this year, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city would be cracking down on municipal employees who abuse their parking privileges by displaying the signs while parked illegally — including in crosswalks, on sidewalks and in bus and bike lanes — or while using personal vehicles when not working.
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Other people who live or work in Capitol Hill, where many of the crosswalks are painted in gay-pride rainbows, said they were struggling with what to think, because no matter what is decided in court, many young gay, lesbian and transgender people are victims of crime, exploitation and abuse.
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Almost everything I was told about the realities of living in New York City has turned out to be true: I've been attacked by a horde of mutant trash rats, eaten a metric ton of perfect pizza, and instinctually yelled, "I'm walkin' here!" at several vehicles that have attempted to flatten me in crosswalks.
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But a political career that began in 1999 with election to the Overland Park City Council — where Mr. Kobach debated the less-than-partisan rudiments of traffic lights, crosswalks and parking lots — quickly pivoted to the more contentious questions of who should be allowed to enter the country and how election systems should be managed.
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News of the new pride flag comes just as the LGBT activist group, Care 2, launches their campaign to petition Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, to install permanent rainbow colored crosswalks like the ones that went up during last year Pride Parade on 36th Street and 5th Avenue and on Christopher Street near the Stonewall Inn.
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I think of this every time I see people waiting for the "walk" sign at crosswalks where cars are nowhere to be seen, or when I interact with officials in Canberra or civil servants in New South Wales, who tend to insist that the way they do things is the only way they could ever be done, ever, anywhere.
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Read more:10 historical optical illusions that have been stumping people for decadesA chef makes desserts that look like random everyday objects, and his optical illusions will play tricks on your eyes12 mind-bending photos of optical illusion crosswalks that trick drivers into slowing downThese 3D illusions made from just pencil and paper will confuse your senses
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Read more:12 mind-bending photos of optical illusion crosswalks that trick drivers into slowing down10 historical optical illusions that have been stumping people for decadesThis optical illusion made with nothing but scraps of paper is going viral — here's how it worksThis optical illusion could affect your vision for over 3 months if you look at it for too long
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You can check out some examples here of Community Actions here like a non-profit Colorado Rising calling for the governor to put a moratorium on oil and gas drilling, citizens asking the a Florida's mayor and state officials to build a performing arts center, and a Philadelphia neighborhood association requesting that the city put in crosswalks by the library.
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Former Gizmodo writer and current Vice News traitor William Turton remarked that the test course feels like a scene ripped straight from The Truman Show, and he's right—the same man paces back and forth in front of his broken down car for hours, chatting on the phone, the same car dutifully loops the roundabout, and the same pedestrians pace through the same crosswalks.
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He calls for a national "Vision Zero" policy to work toward eliminating traffic fatalities and serious injuries, as well as doubling funding for the Transportation Alternatives Program to install more accessible sidewalks, crosswalks, and bike lanes Buttigieg's plan calls for investing $80 billion in expanding broadband to "unserved and underserved communities," and boosting the FCC's Lifeline program, which helps provide affordable phone and internet service to low-income consumers.
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The petition: • reminds parents to talk to their kids about safety before they go out trick-or-treating; • tells kids to carry a flashlight and a wear a costume with reflective materials; • urges families to come up with a pre-planned route that children will take and asks that they stay on sidewalks and use crosswalks; • and asks parents to trick-or-treat with their children, for safety and family bonding.
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