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NP here.  The advice I have seen is to cross at a pedestrian pace (because that is what drivers will be looking for) which does not mean dismounting.  It looks like the family here was riding across at a pedestrian pace (and indeed, its hard for a young child to exceed such pace).

And to look, yes, but that does not mean waiting till there is no car traffic anywhere.  Once the walker or biker is in the crosswalk, the driver is expected to stop (in Va, to yield).  [/quote]

A comment on Greater Greater Washington provides one explanation for that PP's insistence that everybody advises to walk your bike across the crosswalk (despite not having yet produced even a single example of somebody providing this advice): namely, the old thinking was

1. Crosswalks are for people who are walking.
2. People on bikes are not walking and therefore do not belong in the crosswalk.
3. Therefore, if you are in a crosswalk with a bicycle, you should be walking it.

But that's not a safety reason, it's a legal reason. Furthermore, it's a legal reason that people are explicitly trying to change. See this bill, for example: http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?pid=billpage&stab=01&id=sb0337&tab=subject3&ys=2017RS[/quote]

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