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Pedestrian crossing. A pedestrian crossing (or crosswalk in American English) is a place designated for pedestrians to cross a road, street or avenue. The term "pedestrian crossing" is also used in the Vienna and Geneva Conventions, both of which pertain to road signs and road traffic.
One of the world's most heavily used pedestrian scrambles, the Shibuya Crossing at HachikÅ Square in Tokyo. A pedestrian scramble (or exclusive pedestrian interval) is a type of traffic signal movement that temporarily stops all vehicular traffic, thereby allowing pedestrians to cross an intersection in every direction, including diagonally, at the same time.
The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, commonly referred to as the Bay Bridge, is a complex of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay in California. As part of Interstate 80 and the direct road between San Francisco and Oakland, it carries about 260,000 vehicles a day on its two decks. [ 3 ][ 4 ] It includes one of the longest bridge spans in the ...
Dumbarton Bridge (California) The Dumbarton Bridge is the southernmost of the highway bridges across San Francisco Bay in California. Carrying over 70,000 vehicles [1] and about 118 pedestrian and bicycle crossings daily [2] (384 on weekends [3]), it is the shortest bridge across San Francisco Bay at 1.63 miles (8,600 ft; 2,620 m).
The San Ysidro Port of Entry (aka San Ysidro Land Port of Entry or San Ysidro LPOE) [2] is the largest land border crossing between San Ysidro and Tijuana, and the fourth-busiest land border crossing in the world (second-busiest excluding the crossings between Mainland China and its two Special Administrative Regions) [3] with 70,000 northbound vehicles and 20,000 northbound pedestrians ...
In New Zealand, where they drive on the left, when a road is given a green light from an all direction stop, a red arrow can continue to display to turning traffic, holding traffic back while the pedestrian crossing on the side road is given a green signal (for left turns) or while oncoming traffic goes straight ahead and there is no permissive right turn allowed (for right turns).
July 14, 1971 [4] Location. The Bridgeport Covered Bridge is located in Bridgeport, Nevada County, California, southwest of French Corral and north of Lake Wildwood. It is used as a pedestrian crossing over the South Yuba River. The bridge was built in 1862 by David John Wood. Its lumber came from Plum Valley in Sierra County, California. [5]
Fernbridge, originally Eel River Bridge, [2] is a 1,320-foot-long (402.3 m) concrete arch bridge designed by American engineer John B. Leonard which opened on November 8, 1911 [3] at the site of an earlier ferry crossing of the Eel River. Fernbridge is the last crossing before the Eel arrives at the Pacific Ocean, and anchors one end of ...