{"id":1410,"date":"2009-07-21T09:17:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T15:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2009-07-21T09:17:57","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T15:17:57","slug":"being-a-pedestrian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2009\/07\/21\/being-a-pedestrian\/","title":{"rendered":"being a pedestrian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>it is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us\/statutes\/?id=169.21\">minnesota state law that you must yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk<\/a>, correct?<\/p>\n<p>actually&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>nobody seems to obey this law.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/pedestrian-crossing.jpg\" alt=\"pedestrian crossing.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" align=\"right\" \/>i&#8217;ve taken to standing and pointing at the sign, while staring disapprovingly at the cars driving past.<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s called a parkway for a reason.<\/p>\n<p>slow down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it is a minnesota state law that you must yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk, correct? actually&#8230; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[275,162],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation","tag-minneapolis","tag-traffic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-mK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}