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.
Read more about this topic: Zebra Crossing
Famous quotes containing the words tiger and/or crossing:
“At age fifty five a man emerges like a tiger from his lair.”
—Chinese proverb.
“This was charming, no doubt: but they shortly found out
That the Captain they trusted so well
Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,
And that was to tingle his bell.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)