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Originally Posted by Locke
Yeah, you have to.
In my experience its a uniquely Albertan thing, but thats the way it works.
My parents arent from Calgary so I was taught the way it works in the rest of the Country and the World, but here in Alberta if someone is trying to cross the road, wherever they are unless its a major road like Macleod or something, they pretty much have the right of way.
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That's not true. Pedestrians only have the right of way in crosswalks.
From the Alberta Traffic Safety Act:
http://www.qp.alberta.ca/1266.cfm?pa...s&display=html
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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.
(2) Where a vehicle is stopped at a crosswalk to permit a pedestrian to cross the roadway, a person driving any other vehicle that is approaching the stopped vehicle from the rear shall not overtake and pass the stopped vehicle.
(3) At any place on a roadway other than at a crosswalk, a person driving a vehicle has the right of way over pedestrians unless otherwise directed by a peace officer or a traffic control device.
(4) Nothing in subsection (3) relieves a person driving a vehicle from the duty of exercising due care for the safety of pedestrians.
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Crosswalks are only at the corner of intersections (whether marked as a crosswalk or not), or any area specifically marked as a pedestrian crossing.