Over the summer of 2009 the city came along and repaved a four lane street near my home. It looks very nice but they forgot to repaint the crosswalk at the corner that crossed it. Now to get across the street I have to walk far either direction to cross the street. I took it upon myself to contact the city to find out who was in charge of this sort of thing. I asked for the email or phone number of the person in charge of dealing with crosswalks. I was told to talk to Vaughn. That’s it. No email, no phone number, not even a last name (although perhaps that is his or her last name). Just “Talk to Vaughn”. I can’t figure out where Vaughn is or what Vaughn does. More inquiries into the mysterious Vaughn have offered no answers.
—Can’t Cross
This article appears in Dec 10-16, 2009.
Vaughn Perrin
Traffic Analyst – Special Projects & Pedestrian Crosswalks
Wow that took less than 30 seconds.
Just for shits and giggles, I just called the HRM Call centre, and asked “Is there a Vaughn who deals with crosswalks”
Why yes!
The name is Vaughn Perrin.
How very helpful!
Yeah Halifax isn’t so big a city, it’s really not difficult to find things out like this if you have half a brain or less. Or you know, are able to speak up and ask Vaughn WHO?? When you had the chance.
Helpless much?
all corners are crosswalks, most are not painted.
My favourite website ever:
http://www.lmgtfy.com/
You’re welcome.
Maybe they meant “talk to VON”. I don’t really know how the Victorian Order of Nurses could help with a crosswalk issue. Maybe offer some comfort after you’re hit?
Priceless Matthew L… Nothing puts me in a better mood than seeing someone called out on their idiocy… I took a look as well just to enjoy a little futher, literally typed “vaughn” into search on halifax.ca and BAM!! there it is…
Mama9: That is a common misconception and is not true at all.
Never Wrong- since I’m at work and can’t access google (but LTWWB is allowed, go figure) please clarify. I remember reading the same as Mama9 in my driver’s handbook way back when…
lehova: there are exceptions to the “every corner is a crosswalk” rule. It depends on a number of factors including volume of traffic, direction of traffic, whether the street is a one way or not, etc. It’s not as common around here, but you see plenty of them in other cities. A couple of examples are St Margaret’s Bay Road (from the rotary to the top of the hill) and Pleasant St. There are plenty of corners/intersections along both those streets, but crosswalks are only where they are marked and lighted.
WTF? Where’d my explanation of the link go? Is that considered advertising? If so, “I have no affiliation whatsoever with the site whose link I posted”, and why unpost the post explaining the link, but not the link itself?”
Does anything to do with the way this site is formatted/maintained make sense?
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=no
HMMM if all corners are crosswalks…does that mean all crosswalks are corners ?
http://www.halifax.ca/traffic/TypesofCross…
Unmarked Crosswalks
There is a crosswalk at every intersection, whether marked by lines or unmarked. Drivers must always yield the right of way to pedestrians lawfuly in crosswalks.
Every pedestrian crossing at a roadway at any point other than at a crosswalk shall yield the right of way to vehicles on the roadway.
nope, they’re not ‘onto’
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/… definition 3.
Crosswalks can be placed anywhere … INCLUDING every corner.
Ok… everyone go with the fact that every corner is a crosswalk and let’s see how many people get mowed down in the next week shall we? There are many idiotic laws that no one follows, if your the only one following it and get subsequently destroyed by a car, who’s the idiot?… Are will you be in a position to say I told you so? I doubt it…
Mama9: “There is a crosswalk at every INTERSECTION…” not every CORNER.
If this were true: “Every pedestrian crossing at a roadway at any point other than at a crosswalk shall yield the right of way to vehicles on the roadway.” then there would be no laws against jay walking. Pedestrians could legally cross ANYWHERE so long as they yield to motorists.
It’s true, there is technically a “crosswalk at every intersection.” Let’s try that, say, crossing Quinpool Road at Armview Avenue at 4pm on a Friday. Hey, it’s a crosswalk, all the cars are supposed to stop as soon as we step onto the road… not supposed to be driving over 50 km/h either. Also, technically, you are supposed to wait until a pedestrian has fully completed crossing at a crosswalk, in other words has set both feet on the other side of the road, before continuing to drive. No rules on how fast people have to walk either, of course. So let’s all meet at the corner of Armview Ave and Quinpool Road at 4pm this Friday to cross Quinpool as slowly as we can, one after another but making sure that there is always at least one foot on Quinpool at all times, and record the plate numbers of any driver who breaks the rules and report them to the police. Should be fun!