Editor,
Below is a response to the letter in Thursday's Daily Lobo, "Students at crosswalks oblivious to lines of cars."
Mike Tandysh, the phenomenon you noticed is properly called "crosswalk use," which is in fact a New Mexico Legislature-given right.
Behold, New Mexico Statutory Chapter 66, Article 7, Section 334, subdivision A:
66-7-334. Pedestrians' right-of-way in crosswalks:
"When traffic-control signals are not in place or not in operation, the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way, slowing down or stopping if need be to so yield, to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within a crosswalk when the pedestrian is upon the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling, or when the pedestrian is approaching so closely from the opposite half of the roadway as to be in danger."
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And the Legislature said, "Let there be safe passage for our pedestrians."
And it was good.
Mark Moss
UNM student
