Why there are no sidewalk signs for pedestrians?

[Anonymous]

How many people know what an implicit crosswalk is? In all the jurisdictions around here, where a sidewalk parallel to a street comes to a crossing of another street, there is, legally, a crosswalk even if no stripes are painted on the road. The pedestrian has the ROW in it. They are not jaywalking when they cross there.

[Anonymous]

Your supposed to cross at a crosswalk.

You aren’t supposed to cross where there isn’t a crosswalk.

It’s quite simple, really.

[Anonymous]

This is like one of those financial articles where the author believes that people would change their behavior if only they had more information.

[Anonymous]

I often walk to work, and at the end of my block cross a through street. There is no painted crosswalk and there are no traffic lights. Although I have the pedestrian right of way I do watch for traffic--there are lights within a couple of blocks either direction and the signaling does allow for an opening, but I will yield to cars that are not going to have enough time to stop or slow down and I try to make eye contact with those that do have plenty of time. But one day as I was crossing a woman was driving towards me, I had enough time to cross but she still yelled a curse word at me for using "her" street.

Makes me wonder if OP thinks pedestrians are only allowed to cross where there is a designation (i.e. painted with signs) crosswalk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your supposed to cross at a crosswalk.

You aren’t supposed to cross where there isn’t a crosswalk.

It’s quite simple, really.

https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title46.2/chapter8/section46.2-924

§ 46.2-924. Drivers to stop for pedestrians; installation of certain signs; penalty.
A. The driver of any vehicle on a highway shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian crossing such highway:

1. At any clearly marked crosswalk, whether at mid-block or at the end of any block;

2. At any regular pedestrian crossing included in the prolongation of the lateral boundary lines of the adjacent sidewalk at the end of a block;

3. At any intersection when the driver is approaching on a highway or street where the legal maximum speed does not exceed 35 miles per hour.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I believe something should be done to help pedestrians to figure out where to cross.

I disagree, and I am in the camp that we need to begin removing warning labels not adding them and let Darwin take over.

if you weed out the stupid people, then society as a whole gets better....

if you are a pedestrian and you cant figure out that its not safe or smart to cross in the middle of a block, or try to run across 4 lanes of traffic. then you kind of deserve to be a wet spot on the ground.

If you are new to the county. better get on board with how a first world country operates. You're not in your old shithole town anymore, this is the big leagues.

you cannot legislate common sense. Don't eve bother trying.

And yes I know that I'll get a few post that are calling me a heartless cvnt, but I don't care.

So I agree with the above PP, but for different reasons.
There are some studies out there that if ALL signs are taken away, both pedestrians and drivers behave much more carefully and accidents go down. It feels counter-intuitive, but it's along the same theory that if you DON'T do the thinking for them, people realize they have to think for themselves. I recall they took all signs out of a whole town to test this out.