Redwood City Municipal Code § 20.50 Crossing Roadway at Right Angles

The City Manager shall establish, designate and maintain crosswalks at intersections and other places by appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway as follows:

A. Crosswalks shall be established and maintained at all intersections where the City Manager determines that there is a particular hazard to pedestrians crossing the roadway subject to the limitations contained in subsection B of this Section.

B. Other than crosswalks at intersections, no crosswalk shall be established in any block which is less than four hundred feet (400′) in length. Elsewhere, not more than one additional crosswalk shall be established in any one block, and such crosswalk shall be located as nearly as practicable at mid-block.

(Ord. No. 758, § 110; Ord. No. 1280, § 1)

State Law reference— Power of local authorities to establish crosswalks, § 21106.

No pedestrian shall cross a roadway other than by a crosswalk in any business district.

(Ord. No. 758, § 111)

No pedestrian shall cross a roadway at any place other than by a route at right angles to the curb or by the shortest route to the opposite curb except in a marked crosswalk.

(Ord. No. 758, § 112)

No person shall stand in any roadway other than in a safety zone or in a crosswalk if such action interferes with the lawful movement of traffic. This provision shall not apply to any public officer or employee, or employee of a public utility when necessarily upon a street in line of duty.

(Ord. No. 758, § 113)