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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
In Greater Halifax there are lots of streets where pedestrians have to really scramble to get across before the lights change. Not sure if that counts...
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What about in winter?
Here, pedestrians use the road in winter. All the time outside the downtown because they don't clear the sidewalks (that's where they pile up the snow) and most of the time downtown. During a storm:
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The rest of the time, traffic just moves too slowly downtown for there to be any risk associated with jaywalking - and, excluding tourists, most drivers grow up with the idea pedestrians have right of way anywhere along Water anyway. Early mornings, it's deserted. You could rip down Water Street at 100 km/hr until 6-7 a.m. any day of the week. But during the workday, and at least until the bars empty out between 3-4 a.m., it's this:
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I rarely get above 20 km/hr on that street. (Stupid video ends right at the beginning of the busy part of downtown, and a whole block shy of our main DT intersection that always has the most feet on the streets. But it's still a good example at the business and number of jaywalkers outside of winter. Nothing that would put TO to shame but pretty busy for 200,000 people).