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If a truck is 50 meters away, traveling West at a speed of 40 km per hour, a car is 30 meters away traveling East at 45 kms per hour, and the street is 10 meters wide, how fast do you have to run to make it to the opposite sidewalk unsquashed?<\/em><\/p>\n

Montrealers implicitly master this kind of calculation at a young age as we learn to navigate our city.<\/p>\n

How many times have I been shocked – even embarrassed – when cars quickly braked after I stepped off the sidewalk in Ontario or another province? My first instinct is generally to chastise these drivers for considerably complicating my calculation with their deceleration.<\/p>\n

None-the-less, it seems that other parts of the world have devised a system for significantly reducing pedestrian squash-ratios: thick yellow lines painted across the street at intersections signify that cars must adjust their velocity to allow pedestrians right of way.<\/p>\n

Several boroughs in Montreal have recently attempted to demystify this system to Montreal drivers. The sign pictured above, observed in the South-West borough, translates the yellow stripes into three locally understood dialects: pictogram, French, and “threat of fine”. Meanwhile, in Ahuntsic-Cartierville small stop signs have been attached to pedestrians as they step into the crosswalk.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, this month Projet Montr\u00e9al sent a letter <\/a>to Quebec’s minister of Transportation demanding an widespread education campaign about the crosswalk concept.<\/p>\n

Montr\u00e9alit\u00e9 Urbain’s Benoit Gratton recently observed what he describes as a strange phenomenon<\/a>: a large proportion of drivers were respecting crosswalks downtown, in Verdun and in the Sud-Ouest. He wonders whether this surprising behavior signals a new trend among Montreal drivers.<\/p>\n

Have any Spacing readers observations supported such a trend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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