Pedestrians shall obey the direction of police officers directing traffic, and whenever there is an officer directing traffic, a traffic control signal or a marked crosswalk within 300 feet of a pedestrian, no such pedestrian shall cross a street except within the limits of a marked crosswalk and as hereinafter provided in this article. For the purpose of this article, a marked crosswalk shall only be construed to be that area of a street reserved for pedestrian crossing located between two solid white pavement markings, said markings or lines being no less than 10 feet apart.
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At a traffic control signal location where pedestrian indications are provided but which are shown only upon actuation by means of a pedestrian pushbutton, no pedestrian shall cross a street unless or until the pedestrian control signal pushbutton has been actuated and then cross only on the proper pedestrian signal indication. At traffic control signal locations where no pedestrian indication is provided, pedestrians shall cross only on the green indication. If necessary, the green indication shall be actuated by the pedestrian by means of a pushbutton.
B. 
At a traffic control signal location, pedestrians shall yield the right-of-way to vehicles of a funeral or other procession or authorized emergency vehicles while in performance of emergency duties, regardless of the signal indication given and they shall not attempt to cross the street until such vehicles or procession has passed.
Traffic control signal color indications and legends shall have the commands ascribed to them in this section and no other meanings, and every pedestrian shall comply therewith, except when otherwise directed by a police officer or other authorized emergency personnel.
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The word “walk.” Whenever the single word “walk” is illuminated or the universal symbol for walk is illuminated, pedestrians facing such indication may proceed across the street in the direction of such signal only.
B. 
Red or “don’t walk.” Whenever the words “don’t walk” or the universal symbol for do not walk is illuminated, or any indication other than the green or walk symbol is illuminated in a traffic control signal where pedestrian indications are provided, pedestrians approaching or facing such indication shall wait on the sidewalk, edge of street or in the pedestrian refuge area of a traffic island and shall not enter upon or cross a street until the proper indication is illuminated in the traffic control signal, but any pedestrian who has partially completed his crossing on the walk indication shall proceed or return to the nearest sidewalk or safety island on the yellow indication, the red indication or when the words “don’t walk” are illuminated by rapid intermittent flashes.
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Green alone. At traffic control signal locations where no pedestrian indication is given or provided, pedestrians facing the signal may proceed across the street within any marked crosswalk in the direction of the green indication.
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Yellow or flashing “don’t walk.” Pedestrians approaching or facing a yellow, flashing don’t’ walk illuminated indication shall not start to cross a street.
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Flashing red. At any traffic control signal location where a flashing red indication is being given facing a crosswalk, pedestrians shall actuate, where provided, the pedestrian signal indication and cross the street only on the walk indication when such indication is in operation. If no pedestrian signal is provided, pedestrians shall cross within crosswalks with due care.
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No pedestrian shall suddenly leave a sidewalk or safety island and walk or run into the path of a vehicle which is so close that it is impossible for the driver to yield the right-of-way or such driver cannot yield by the use of reasonable care.
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Pedestrians shall at all times attempt to cross a street using the right half of crosswalks.
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Where sidewalks are provided, it shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to walk along and upon an adjacent roadway whenever the sidewalk is open to pedestrian use.
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Where sidewalks are not provided, any pedestrian walking along and upon a street shall, when practicable, walk only on the left side of the street on its unfinished shoulder facing traffic which may approach from the opposite direction.
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Every pedestrian crossing a street at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the street.
The provisions of this article governing the use of ways by pedestrians shall not apply to pedestrians actually engaged in work upon a street closed to travel or under construction or repair, to municipal, state, federal, or public service employees while in the performance of their duties, to officers engaged in the performance of their public duties or to pedestrians acting in an emergency when such emergency necessitates departures from any part of this article.