Klaas Bil said:*On Wed said:The lines don't work for zebras; they just jump right over them.
I missed a 🙂 in your response so let me ask: what do you call the
black and white stripes painted on the road (actually only the white
is painted), intended as pedestrian safe road crossing places?
Klaas Bil - Newsgroup Addict*
In the US, the most common way to mark what we call a "crosswalk" is
with two parallel white lines between which the pedestrian is supposed
to walk. Various ladder-like figures are used also, though not nearly as
much. I've never seen a crosswalk painted like the thing that started
this thread (though this doesn't mean that such things don't exist), and
on a rural road in Colorado you would probably be more likely to see a
real live zebra than a crosswalk of any sort.
Here is a page with good pictures of some crosswalk types in New York
City:
http://tinyurl.com/bv3jg
That site uses the term "zebra crossing," but that type of crosswalk
isn't seen often enough for the term to be a part of our common dialect,
at least not here in the midwest. Maybe it's an east-coast thing, or
Department-Of-Transportation-speak. I suppose the use of the word
"platoon" to describe a group of people attempting to cross the street
says something about the grim plight of pedestrians in our cities.
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