Wear Oregon’s crosswalk law on your chest

Design idea for second draft. Make a “sign post” holding up the sign made up of the words “Every corner is a crosswalk-painted or not” or something of the sort.

This isn’t going to help, since 99% of drivers don’t even know what a crosswalk is (they think it has to be marked or it isn’t one).

How about putting it on the backs and fronts of PPB uniforms? How about squad cars?

More “valiant efforts” by Portland Police might help raise awareness of Oregon’s crosswalk law.

How about a shirt that says “SMILE! Your illegal driving is being posted to YouTube.”

Sarah is rocking that shirt. I can’t wait to get one!

awesome!

it’s about time peds got their own version of our “bikes allowed full lane” shirts…

Thank you, Brian, Todd, and all! So. Awesome.

Thank you so much to everyone at Lancaster – these shirts are amazing! Their support of Oregon Walks and increasing awareness about the crosswalk law is just wonderful.

You can also purchase the shirts at the Weston Awards, Oregon Walk’s annual award ceremony and fundraiser to celebrate walking in the region, on October 26th!

http://wpcwalks.givezooks.com/events/the-2013-weston-awards

Very nice.

It’s really the flurry of little things like this that make for big change.

To the rest of you — do you run a small business, or have a say in the management of a larger one? Come up with a clever little marketing/educational message, and you too can help change our future, promote your company, get donations to your favorite charity, and get featured on BikePortland.

Ted Buehler

When I’m (rarely) driving, I find myself having to choose between legal and safe. It’s often *safer* to not stop for a pedestrian.

What? Sounds crazy.

But the following scenario has played out before. In either a two or four lane situation, one legal driver is met by 3 illegal ones. A pedestrian decides to proceed because the first driver stops, and others don’t. This places the pedestrian in serious peril, especially if the stopped vehicle obstructs view.

The same scenario plays out where drivers absolutely should not stop when they have right-of-way but one does stop in an effort to be helpful to a cyclist. I’ve had situations where if I had heeded the “go ahead” wave of a friendly driver, I’d be certainly dead. Not exaggerating.

One could argue that we should always just stop right? I mean, it’s the law right? But when I do the “right thing” on paper and some little kid or adult is killed because of it, I’ll not be at peace again.

We are moving in the right direction with more outreach. This T shirt is excellent in supporting that.

How about bumper stickers reminding cyclists that they have to stop, also?

I’m wondering what the wisdom behind trying to get a driver to read someone’s t-shirt is while they are driving. seems like even more of a distraction.

when I cross in the “marked and with yellow strobes” crossing on se 122 at the library , the mechanical voice warns “warning ..all cars may not stop” …..IMHO , this is the perfect place to add more of those red light cameras.
Sometimes it scares the begeeses out of me when the near lane stops and blocks the view of the second lane where some idiot just flies on thru , just missing me .

I had to do this manually to a guy on SE Division a few weeks back. I stride out into the (marked) crosswalk, he brakes to avoid hitting me (so thanks for that I guess), then lays on his horn. I’m not big on letting folks like this have their way, and he was in a convertible with the top down, so I stopped, turned to face him, and had an, erm, nice calm discussion with him. I even got backed up by some cafe patrons across the street. I felt bad for his wife/girlfriend, who was the picture of embarrassment.

That said, I have a major, major issue with the law as it stands. And that issue is: intent to cross. When you’re driving, it’s impossible to evaluate intent to cross. Prior to the installation of flashers on the NE 60th 84 overpass, I stopped countless times for people who were just craning out to look for a bus. And I’ve blown right past people who didn’t at first appear to have “i’m gonna cross now” body language. How do we fix this? Cause I don’t have a clue.