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zebra crossing

Brit a pedestrian crossing marked on a road by broad alternate black and white stripes. Once on the crossing the pedestrian has right of way
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CONCERNED parents have launched a campaign for a zebra crossing on a busy road near a primary school.
Zebra Crossing would get a place in the Springbok rugby XV after the hand-off he gave Theatrical Moment up the runin as they made their dash for the line well clear of their rivals.
"Basically the first zebra crossing was badly designed and ended up with three lanes of traffic crossing it.
Unfortunately, for pedestrians, scooter drivers often drive on the zebra crossing when making the fishhook turn and also they make the turn very suddenly, nearly running into pedestrians, cyclists or even other vehicles going straight through the intersection.
e sc visib pav w "Small children will be especially difficult to see at the zebra crossing because of this.
ISLAMABAD -- The absence of zebra crossings on major roads is causing inconvenience to pedestrians and also poses risk, especially during peak hours.
A Flintshire Council spokesperson said: "The scheme to upgrade the existing zebra crossing to a pelican crossing at Trelawnyd School has been submitted for Welsh Government funding through the Safer Routes in the Community funding initiative in the past two years, but funding was not awarded to the scheme on both occasions.
The deceased and his sister were crossing the road, which lacked zebra crossing, when they were run over by the speeding driver heading towards Rolla.
A PS50,000 zebra crossing has been installed at a controversial shared space in Coventry - a year after traffic lights and street signs were removed to make it 'clutter-free'.
gazettelive.co.uk/buyaphoto ref: 01308763 KEY traffic improvements are to be made in Marske centre The work by Redcar and Cleveland Council includes a new zebra crossing on The Wynd near the main roundabout and comes in the wake of a fatality in the area and severaSl serious incidents in the town centre.
Zebra crossing fears COURTESY is a word often used in correspondence about road conduct, but unfortunately many drivers never seem to have heard of it.
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