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Me-6srn
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 Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2013, 1:24 pm EDT Post subject: Crosswalks |
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| Does anyone know what they are doing to the crosswalks?? I see the red boards they are installing. Will the have the flashers in them like P-ton Jct train station? |
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anon-2430
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| Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2013, 3:01 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Crosswalks |
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| Middlesex county is installing ADA-compliant crosswalks on county roads. |
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Yield!-op0q
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| Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2013, 6:59 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Crosswalks |
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| As a related point, failure to yield to pedestrians in the crosswalks has been problematic lately. Several times last week alone there have been motorists that failed to yield to walkers well into the crosswalk, despite having plenty of time to do so. One old coot had the nerve to raise his hand at a middleschooler as he drove through the cross walk without slowing. The kid was alert enough to stop and notice the car was not stopping. Going to start getting license plate numbers if I see this again. |
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anon-97on
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| Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2013, 7:46 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Crosswalks |
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| Yield!-op0q wrote: | | As a related point, failure to yield to pedestrians in the crosswalks has been problematic lately. Several times last week alone there have been motorists that failed to yield to walkers well into the crosswalk, despite having plenty of time to do so. One old coot had the nerve to raise his hand at a middleschooler as he drove through the cross walk without slowing. The kid was alert enough to stop and notice the car was not stopping. Going to start getting license plate numbers if I see this again. |
Agreed. People who do this shouldn't be licensed to drive. Pedestrians always have the right of way at crosswalks. |
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anon-011q
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| Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2013, 8:31 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Crosswalks |
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| Yield!-op0q wrote: | | As a related point, failure to yield to pedestrians in the crosswalks has been problematic lately. Several times last week alone there have been motorists that failed to yield to walkers well into the crosswalk, despite having plenty of time to do so. One old coot had the nerve to raise his hand at a middleschooler as he drove through the cross walk without slowing. The kid was alert enough to stop and notice the car was not stopping. Going to start getting license plate numbers if I see this again. |
If you have an iPhone (or similar), capture the act on video; post the video on the Internet and give it to the police. |
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anon-93rr
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| Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2013, 8:37 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Crosswalks |
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| anon-2430 wrote: | | Middlesex county is installing ADA-compliant crosswalks on county roads. |
What are the red boards on the crosswalks? |
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5-63s1
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| Posted: Mon, Apr 15 2013, 8:47 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Crosswalks |
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| it is for the american disabilities act. so blind, handicapped people know they are at a crosswalk. |
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anon-3q58
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| Posted: Sat, Apr 20 2013, 10:58 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Crosswalks |
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| Also these kids do a lot of jay walking if you see them take a picture and call the police. |
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anon-3q58
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| Posted: Sat, Apr 20 2013, 11:01 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Crosswalks |
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| And one more thing Main st is not the place for u turns if you see someone do it take a picture and call the police. There is also an app with radar if you believe someone is speeding use it and give it to the police. |
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anon-93rr
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| Posted: Sun, Apr 21 2013, 10:34 am EDT Post subject: Re: Crosswalks |
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| anon-3q58 wrote: | | And one more thing Main st is not the place for u turns if you see someone do it take a picture and call the police. There is also an app with radar if you believe someone is speeding use it and give it to the police. |
Is this person serious??? I dont think you can take a picture of someone doing a uturn and give it to the police....haha.... |
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anon-1225
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| Posted: Sun, Apr 21 2013, 4:42 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Crosswalks |
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| anon-3q58 wrote: | | And one more thing Main st is not the place for u turns if you see someone do it take a picture and call the police. There is also an app with radar if you believe someone is speeding use it and give it to the police. |
Get a life... |
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street safety-op0q
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| Posted: Mon, Apr 22 2013, 8:08 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Crosswalks |
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| anon-1225 wrote: |
Get a life... |
Indeed. Perhaps they will find posting snide remarks on a forum to be more fulfilling.
On point, there have been a few pedestrian/bicycle vs. auto accidents on Main St in recent years. While I think our town enjoys greater courtesy of pedestrians in cross walks than some other towns I go to, we can improve. I'd also encourage the reporting of unsafe driver behavior to the police - on Maint St or elsewhere. |
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anon-r024
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| Posted: Mon, Apr 22 2013, 9:17 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Crosswalks |
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| I'd sure like to see crosswalks be safer. Three cheers to the Township for making these changes! |
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anon-1s7s
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| Posted: Wed, May 29 2013, 6:40 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Crosswalks |
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| street safety-op0q wrote: | | anon-1225 wrote: |
Get a life... |
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Not very kind or neighborly to say. Why do people feel they can be so mean just typing anonymously. |
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anon-opp6
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| Posted: Thu, Jun 20 2013, 5:22 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Crosswalks |
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Neighboring townships have actually been setting up "traps" at crosswalks.
A plain clothes officer is the decoy steps into cross walk, a marked police car past the cross walk stops the vehicle that fails to yield.
The person if standing in the crosswalk (stepped off curb) has the right of way. Someone standing on the curb before entering the cross walk does not.
The pedestrian must be completely across and out of the cross walk, before the vehicle may cross.
Brother in law is a police officer and was on detail last couple days doing this. He told me other towns also cracking down on this.
Most get off with warnings however the more blatant ones, I guess riskier more careless ones get tickets. |
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anon-4013
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| Posted: Thu, Jun 20 2013, 8:13 pm EDT Post subject: Re: Crosswalks |
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| Not happening in Cranbury. No revenue from tickets so they don't care. |
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