It’s about time that someone came up with this ordinance.
“The San Juan City Council recently passed the The Pedestrian Safety Ordinance, which aims to ensure the safety of pedestrians crossing the streets and encourage the public to use pedestrian lanes knowing that vehicles will stop when they are on the lanes,” reports Francis T. Wakefield in the Manila Bulletin.
The highlights (for lack of a better word) of the ordinance are Section 2, which requires that all persons driving any motorized vehicle must stop before traversing any pedestrian lane with at least one person already crossing and Section 3, which provides that if a pedestrian lane is located where there are traffic lights then he or she isn’t allowed to cross when the green light for vehicles is lit in the lane.
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