Fake crossings ...
"They're not intended to have white stripes, because that would make it a formal crossing," writes Stephen about Sideswipe's featured stripe-less crossing outside Oratia School and Kindergarten.
"The whole purpose of these informal 'crossings' is to make it uncertain who has right of way — pedestrian or vehicle? It's the vehicle of course, but try telling that to the pedestrian who's just been knocked over because they stepped out in front of a vehicle, thinking they had right of way. The intent is to slow traffic down, but the result is to increase the risk. The NZ design guide for these things encourages the use of the yellow raised elements for the visually impaired, which helps the visually impaired find the edge of the road at the informal 'crossing', but then they don't have right of way for crossing.
The design guide says these 'aids' shouldn't be used at real, formal crossings, because you wouldn't want a visually impaired person to find those now, would you?"
