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Under the new law, pedestrians who cross against a traffic signal or fall to use a nearby (within 300 ft.) crosswalk are open game for $1 fines. Motorists who to not yield to pedestrians at unlighted crosswalks can be tagged...
Under a Massachusetts law that the City Council approved last summer, pedestrians within 300 feet of a crosswalk will be forced to use that walk, in addition to obeying traffic signals...
City law also prohibits parking on the left side of any one-way street, upon any sidewalk, upon any crosswalk, more than one feet from the curb, less than ten feet from a fire hydrant, or in front of any private road or driveway...
...Manchester, England last June a matronly market woman named Mary Agnes Smith, walking with her grandchild, paused at a crosswalk to let motor traffic go by. A lorry owned by Hall & Pickles rumbled from one direction, the motor car of a Mr. Cunliffe of Droylsden purred from the other. Right before Mrs. Smith's horrified eyes they crashed. Mrs. Smith screamed to her grandchild to run, then collapsed. She says she has not felt right since...
...Cambridge Committee on Traffic Problems. The system proposed will not do away with the Boston Elevated rotunda in the center of the Square. A traffic signal tower is to be placed close to the rotunda, with individual signals on the adjacent corners, to aid the problem of the crosswalk...