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This is a slope in front of a house where people park their car or pull into their garage.
What is a driveway?
This is an 8-sided red sign that requires cars to make a full stop and go through the intersection 1 at a time.
What is a stop sign?
This is a safe time to cross when you do not hear or see cars at quiet stop sign or uncontrolled streets.
What is all clear?
What is all quiet?
This is when a car engine is on but the car is not moving.
What is idling?
This is the ability to see and hear cars from different directions which is important to make safe street crossings.
What is visibility?
What is good visibility?
These are tactile bumps that warn travelers who are blind or visually impaired of potential danger. They are commonly found at intersection corners, transportation platforms, and at the beginning or end of a staircase.
What are truncators?
What are truncated domes?
What are tactile warning surfaces?
This is a traffic control where several cars stop on a street and then surge forward at the same time when it is their turn to go.
What is a traffic light?
What is a stop light?
What is a signalized intersection?
pull cane in, take a step back, look away or put your chin down
What is a non verbal way to communicate to the driver that you are not crossing and that you want them to move ahead.
This is when a car goes from a stopped position and begins moving.
What is a surge?
This is present at an intersection corner to tell drivers how to behave.
What is a traffic control?
This is a strip of grass between the street and sidewalk.
What is a boulevard?
This is a 3-sided red sign that tells drivers that they must slow down and be ready to stop to let any vehicle, bicyclist, or pedestrian pass before you proceed through an intersection.
What is yield?
What is a yield sign?
This is when the traveler holds their cane diagonal to their body with the cane anchored at the curb while standing at a street corner.
What is the ready position?
What is the ready and waiting position?
This is the street that is next to you when you are walking down a block or at a corner.
What is a parallel street?
This is a term to describe if traffic is a one or two way street.
What is traffic flow?
What is direction of traffic?
Wha is directionality?
This is when a car is parked next to a curb instead of in a parking spot or a driveway.
What is parallel parking?
This is when a traffic control is not present. Cars do not have to stop and they remain in continuous motion as they pass you.
What is an uncontrolled street?
This is when you look or listen for nearby cars before and during a street crossing.
What is scanning?
What is visual scanning?
What is auditory scanning?
This is when there are loud sounds that block you from hearing nearby traffic.
What is a masking sound?
This describes the approximate number of driving lanes on the street that you are crossing.
What is the width?
A curve in the road that helps assist with the drainage of water to prevent rain water from collecting into puddles.
What is a camber?
What is a road camber?
This traffic light color means caution or slow down to a stop if you are able to safely.
What is yellow?
What is a yellow light?
This is a safe time to cross when you hear cars on the street next to you surge forward going straight.
What is a near parallel surge?
This is the cross street that is in front of you or behind you.
What is a perpendicular street?
What is an alternate route?
What is public assistance?
What is changing your corner position?