Palo Alto Municipal Code Ch. 10.32 Pedestrians

Sections:

* For state law authorizing local authorities to prohibit pedestrians from crossing roadways at other than crosswalks - See Veh. C.A., § 21961.

(a) The city manager is hereby authorized to establish and maintain crosswalks and to designate them by appropriate devices or painted signs upon the surface of the roadway.

(b) The city manager may place signs at or adjacent to an intersection in respect to any crosswalk directing that pedestrians shall not cross in the crosswalk so indicated.

(Ord. 1714 (part), 1956: prior code § 19.81)

(a) No pedestrian shall cross a roadway other than by a crosswalk in any business district.

(b) In all other districts, no pedestrian shall cross a roadway at any place other than by a route at right angles to the curb or by the shortest route to the opposite curb except in a marked crosswalk.

(Ord. 1714 (part), 1956: prior code § 19.82)

No person shall cross the roadway of any portion of a grade separation except at a pedestrian crosswalk.

(Ord 1714 (part), 1956: prior code § 19.83)

No pedestrian shall cross Bayshore Freeway upon Embarcadero Road Overpass.

(Ord 2496 § 2, 1969: Ord. 2470 § 3, 1968)

(a) No person, other than peace officers acting in the performance of their duties or authorized maintenance or construction personnel, shall, except in designated crosswalks, walk upon or drive any livestock upon the Foothill Expressway at any location on said expressway between Page Mill Road and the southerly city limits at Adobe Creek.

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) hereinabove, the driver and passengers of a disabled vehicle stopped on Foothill Expressway at any location between Page Mill Road and the southerly city limits at Adobe Creek may walk to the nearest exit, in either direction, on that side of the expressway upon which the vehicle is disabled, from which telephone or auto repair services are available.

(Ord 2844 § 1, 1975)