The law makes it illegal for drivers to park their cars within 20 feet of a crosswalk, on the side of the street that faces the crosswalk.
The law makes it illegal for drivers to park their cars within 20 feet of a crosswalk, on the side of the street that faces the crosswalk.
Could someone explain why this is called daylighting? I get what it means and this seems like a very smart thing to do if you want to make walking safer, but the term makes absolutely no sense at all. If even tried to look it up, it bothers me. The only thing that would make a bit of sense is that they mean the crosswalk is no longer in the shadow, but that seems quite a stretch too.
While I’m in favor of the concept, I want to garrotte the idiots who came up with and disseminated that stupid term. It should be called “Sightlining” because it increases everyone’s line of sight, to help prevent vehicles from killing pedestrians and cyclists, and cyclists from injuring pedestrians as well. Or you could say it establishes a Visibility Zone. I failed to find an etymology or original source but if someone does, let me know.
According to this source https://www.etymonline.com/word/daylight#798. It seems to refer to an old figuratove usage of the term daylight to indicate a clear space between two objects. That makes sense applied to the methods use in “daylighting” intersections since it’s meant to create a visible gap for better visibility.