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Originally Posted by Polar Bear
An extremely dangerous...and basically wrong...oversimplification.
Signalized intersections have marked crosswalks. So a car approaching the intersection with a green light is going to stop for pedestrians? Please provide a link to that law.
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An extremely dangerous - and basically wrong - oversimplification of what I said. You missed a very important word: "crossing."
Crossing is present tense. Not pluperfect, not past, not future. Present. It means - someone is actively doing this thing.
If a person is actively in the process of crossing the street at a marked crosswalk, then yes - that person has the right of way. EVEN if someone is approaching that crosswalk on the street in a motor vehicle and they have a green light. They MUST stop and allow the person who is walking to complete their journey to the other side of the street. EVEN if that pedestrian isn't immediately in their path, merely on their way toward it.
Once the pedestrian steps off the curb and into the street at a marked crossroad, he automatically has the right of way on that road.
If he hasn't left the curb yet then no - he doesn't have the right of way if oncoming traffic has a green light. But that wasn't what I was talking about - which is why I used the present tense of "to cross."