In case you missed them, two stories of local interest made the news this week. The Times-Herald reports that a Vallejo man was arrested Thursday morning for spray-painting a crosswalk on Sonoma Boulevard at Illinois Street. City workers spotted Anthony Cardenas committing the act of graffiti art, according to Solano County [...]
It was a long winter, with drivers mowing down pedestrians throughout the county, so who can blame people for seeking the fine points of crosswalk law? Today's question involves broad, multi-lane intersections. It's followed by a list of the crosswalk violations most frequently seen in traffic court. How much should [...]
Just before 9 a.m. Sunday, a 97-year-old visually impaired woman was struck while trying to cross East Washington Street at Elly Boulevard South in Petaluma. Petaluma Police officers found her in the crosswalk with moderate injuries, along with a 62-year-old driver who told them she hadn't seen the pedestrian until [...]
You see it all the time: A pedestrian waiting to cross a street will push the crosswalk button, wait, push it again and even a bunch of times as he/she tires of waiting. Does that do any good? No. "Pressing it more times doesn't do anything more than pressing it [...]