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Originally Posted by Wormius
I have noticed this for a long time and wondering what the exact rule is when stopping for a pedestrian on a crosswalk. It seems like half the drivers will resume driving as soon as the pedestrian has cleared his/her lane, while others will wait until the pedestrian has made it all of the way to the other side. Any thoughts?
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So I did some digging and this is what I came up with:
It used to be that you needed to wait until they had crossed fully on a 2 way street, or had crossed past the meridian on a divided highway. This changed, as best I can remember, along with a bunch of other laws and penalty increases, when Ed Stelmach became Premier. I can't find anything to back that up for sure. Likely it was 4-5 years ago, give or take?
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canlii.org:
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Yielding to pedestrians
41(1) A person driving a vehicle shall yield the right of way to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a crosswalk.
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This means they once they have been given the right of way, and exercised that right by leaving the sidewalk and entering the road at a crosswalk, you need to let them go first. Once they have passed, you can go. Note: There is also a separate penalty for failing to yield the right of way to a pedestrian who is requesting to cross, either through an outstretched hand or, I presume, traffic crossing signals.
As mentioned a few posts back, you should wait for them to be far enough passed that you couldn't possibly hit them if they fell or turned around suddenly, since that would be putting them in danger.