AG: Virtual Stop signs
On 2/6/2016 10:01 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:
There is a virtual stop sign at the mouth of every driveway, alley,
parking lot, and anywhere else that something that isn't quite a road
intersects a road or a street.
One seminar I attended advised teaching little kids to recognize
"edges." As they described it, there was an "edge" where a sidewalk
crossed a driveway; or where it crossed a street; or where a driveway
entered a roadway, and so on.
They claimed that it was possible to train kids to recognized "edges" as
hazards that required looking both ways.
I suppose that could work. It's a shame, though, that a similar lesson
hasn't been drummed into motorists, with the expectation that they would
yield to any pedestrians at an edge. Motordom won that one.
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- Frank Krygowski
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