wiboif trains honk at every crossing (in the US), shouldn't cars be honking at every crosswalk?
thisNotMyNameWhere I live, pedestrians have the right of way at crosswalks (fun fact: when this was introduced somewhere in the 70s, car drivers have been angry about it)
sobriquetSerious question: are there places in the world that have marked pedestrian crossings (crosswalks), but vehicles DON’T have to give way to pedestrians?
Yes, Germany.
They have two types of pedestrian crosswalks. One of them is the standard “zebra crossing”, where the whole crosswalk is maked with white stripes and there pedestrians have right of way.
The other one just has just dashes at the sides of the crossing, and here pedestrians have no right of way. But if these are present (same with the other type) pedestrians are not allowed to cross the road for iirc 50 meters left or right of the crossing. So it essentially turns the road left and right of the crossing into a “no crossing allowed” zone.
They do this at traffic lights, so that if the light doesn’t work pedestrians don’t have right of way. And sometimes they just do it to annoy pedestrians, because it’s car-country Germany and fuck pedestrians or something.