There are some crosswalks that if you didn't give pedestrians the right of way, then no one would ever stop to let people cross. It would be a completely ineffective crosswalk. You would then have to make it a controlled crosswalk which would slow down traffic.
I thought that it is, or at least used to be a law though, that pedestrians had to signal with their arm by pointing forward thereby giving vehicles a warning to stop. You never see people do this anymore though. People just walk out and hope for the best it seems.
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