Tiger Crossing
A tiger crossing is a variation used in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, a former British colony. It is painted yellow and black. In the UK, it allows cyclists to cross in a central area of the road without dismounting, and motorists must give way to both cyclists and pedestrians. Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire experimented with tiger crossings in 2006 and 2007, but replaced them with toucan crossings. Switzerland also uses yellow stripes for pedestrian crossings. But unlike mentioned above, cyclists are required to dismount to cross the road.
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Famous quotes containing the words tiger and/or crossing:
“The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of the snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda,—these are in the system, and our habits like theirs. You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughter-house is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity, expensive races,—race living at the expense of race.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing the airy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)