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OT: pedestrian crossings (was: Re: Re: Delta updates is dangerous... important? dull? why?)

From "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk>
Newsgroups alt.comp.software.thunderbird, alt.comp.software.firefox
Subject OT: pedestrian crossings (was: Re: Re: Delta updates is dangerous... important? dull? why?)
Date 2026-06-23 23:35 +0100
Organization 255 software
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On 2026/6/23 19:39:15, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
>> Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>> J. P. Gilliver wrote:
> 
>>>> Answer, in less than two minutes:
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N5e1R4-G9I
>>>> (For US listeners: a zebra crossing is UK for what you call a crosswalk.)
> 
>>> We have zebra crossings. 
> 
>> with Belisha Beacons?
> 
> A city in Bew Jersey erected them all over the place and eliminated
> accidents with pedestrians.

In UK, since I think about the 1970s, they've also had long zig-zags
painted along the road edges for several car lengths either side of the
actual crossing, which are no-parking zones.
> 
> Zebra crossings, in and of themselves, are not effective.
> 
>>> The term describes a specific method of
>>> painting the crosswalk on the street. If the crosswalk is painted as
>>> parallel lines, that is not a zebra crossing.

Not sure what you mean by parallel lines. To me, a zebra crossing is
broad alternating black and white stripes (I'm not sure they always
bother with the black if the road surface is dark enough), at right
angles to the direction of walking - the most well-known example being
the cover of the Beatles' Abbey Road album. (JAIF: they renamed the
recording studio the Abbey Road studio after the success of that album;
it had previously been just the EMI recording studios _in_ Abbey Road.)
I'd not come across the term crosswalk until captchas became common: I
just guessed, from looking at them, that that's what a crosswalk is.
(The pictures in captchas are always of American subjects.)
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

... and how lovely, warm, funny, and just all-round Victoria Woodish
she was. - Richard Osman on Victoria Wood, RT 2017/4/8-14

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