Crosswalks!

All along Summit, the crosswalk lines are getting re-painted, which should make them easier to see.

SARPA reminds you, however, that pedestrians have the right-of-way at every intersection, marked crosswalk or not. MN State Statute 169.21 decrees:

Rights in absence of signal.

 

(a) Where traffic-control signals are not in place or in operation, the driver of a vehicle shall stop to yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a marked crosswalk or at an intersection with no marked crosswalk. The driver must remain stopped until the pedestrian has passed the lane in which the vehicle is stopped. No pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle which is so close that it is impossible for the driver to yield. This provision shall not apply under the conditions as otherwise provided in this subdivision.

(b) When any vehicle is stopped at a marked crosswalk or at an intersection with no marked crosswalk to permit a pedestrian to cross the roadway, the driver of any other vehicle approaching from the rear shall not overtake and pass the stopped vehicle.

However, the same statute remarks that:

(a) Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or at an intersection with no marked crosswalk shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway. 

Pedestrian traffic along Summit easily doubles in the summer, so let's be sure everyone is safe!