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A traffic light-controlled zebra crossing with tactile paving in Bandung, Indonesia A zebra crossing painted green in Guatemala to indicate usability by cyclists. A zebra crossing (British English) or a marked crosswalk (American English) is a pedestrian crossing marked with white stripes (zebra markings). [1]
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There are two distinctive types of crossings in Australia: marked foot crossings and pedestrian crossing (also called zebra crossings). Marked foot crossings consist on two parallel broken white lines indicating where pedestrians must cross with pedestrian lights facing pedestrians and traffic lights facing drivers.
The other method involves the use of the more easily visible "continental stripes" (like the UK's zebra crossings), which are sets of multiple bars across the crosswalk itself that are perpendicular to the direction of crossing. These bars are typically 12 to 24 inches (300 to 610 mm) wide and are set 12 to 24 inches (300 to 610 mm) apart.
A zebra crossing in Singapore. Two flashing Belisha Beacon are positioned, one on each side of the road, at a zebra crossing, which flashes from 7 pm to 7 am daily, indicating to an approaching motorist of a zebra crossing. Older crossings display the blue square zebra crossing signs on both sides (see above), which are synonymous to the ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 11:33, 28 March 2013: 50 × 170 (330 bytes): Jahoe: Used hexadecimal color coding for red, yellow and green, just to avoid the ubiquitous confusion about the exact meaning of the "lime" and "green" keywords.
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A British zebra crossing. The British Government's Road Research Laboratory's (RRL) Traffic and Safety Division was established at Langley, near Slough in 1946. [1]: 2 The division was soon tasked with developing a new type of pedestrian crossing that would be visible in all weather conditions. [2]