Torrance Municipal Code Art. 5 Pedestrians

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

1. Crosswalks shall be established and maintained at intersections and at other places, where the City Traffic Engineer determines that there is particular hazard to pedestrians crossing the roadway, subject to the limitation contained in subsection b) of this Section.

b) Other than crosswalks at intersections, no crosswalk shall by established in any block which is less than four hundred (400) feet in length. Elsewhere, not more than one (1) additional crosswalk shall be established in any one (1) block and such crosswalk shall be located as nearly as practicable in mid-block.

No pedestrian shall cross a roadway other than by a crosswalk except where access to crosswalks is limited so as to make crossing at a crosswalk unreasonable.

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.

Notwithstanding other provisions of this Code, when there is a sidewalk available, 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. Where there is no sidewalk available pedestrians must walk as close to the side of the roadway as is possible.

(Added by O-2682)

a) No person shall use a painted or raised median or center divider of a publicly maintained roadway for sales of goods or services, advertising, solicitation, distribution of information or literature, picketing or any purpose other than those specified in subsection b) hereof.

b) Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit any person who is otherwise lawfully engaged in crossing a publicly maintained roadway from temporarily stopping on a median or center divider to permit motor vehicles to pass.