Fed-up citizens paint own crosswalks, City removes them. (1 Viewer)

[kface]

why do we need Federal laws regarding crosswalks?

There are federal and state guidelines (design standards) for all traffic control devices. That includes all striping and signing. You'd be surprised at how much design goes into an intersection or striping a road. Google 'mutcd'.

i'm not doubting that the regs exist; i'm questioning why something like that needs regs at a federal level.

Traffic often require consistency across municipalities or states so people who are blind or have trouble with their sight (and other reasons) can utilize the same type of infrastructure from city to city. It reduces liability to standarize a lot of things. That's why it's green yellow red on traffic lights and it's impossible for your city to make it blue/purple/pink.

 

[grateful zed]

Is that Seattle?

beat me to it

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

why do we need Federal laws regarding crosswalks?

There are federal and state guidelines (design standards) for all traffic control devices. That includes all striping and signing. You'd be surprised at how much design goes into an intersection or striping a road. Google 'mutcd'.

i'm not doubting that the regs exist; i'm questioning why something like that needs regs at a federal level.

THANKS OBAMA!

 

[oso diablo]

that all can be accomplished at the state level.

 

[Long Ball Larry]

why do we need Federal laws regarding crosswalks?

There are federal and state guidelines (design standards) for all traffic control devices. That includes all striping and signing. You'd be surprised at how much design goes into an intersection or striping a road. Google 'mutcd'.

i'm not doubting that the regs exist; i'm questioning why something like that needs regs at a federal level.

Traffic often require consistency across municipalities or states so people who are blind or have trouble with their sight (and other reasons) can utilize the same type of infrastructure from city to city. It reduces liability to standarize a lot of things. That's why it's green yellow red on traffic lights and it's impossible for your city to make it blue/purple/pink.

though there is one town in new england where green and red are reversed, i think?

 

[grateful zed]

In New Orleans after Katrina people painted and put up their own street signs because the government wasn't nearly up to it. Some are still around.

does that make it right?

 

[Amused to Death]

that all can be accomplished at the state level.

And there are state-level design standards. There are also federal standards. State level standards also conform to the feds. There are uniform requirements as we're all driving on U.S. roads. Stop signs are red and white in every state.