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Township of Upper Merion, PA
Montgomery County
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At all locations in the Township where official traffic control signals are installed, pedestrians, except where directed otherwise by pedestrian control signals installed as designated by the Traffic Regulations Commission, shall obey the directions of those traffic control signals as follows:
A. 
When facing a green signal, a pedestrian may proceed across the roadway within a crosswalk.
B. 
When facing a steady yellow signal, a pedestrian shall not start to cross the roadway,
C. 
When facing a steady red signal, a pedestrian shall not enter the roadway.
A. 
Official pedestrian control signals shall be established as designated by the Traffic Regulations Commission. Every pedestrian facing a steady or flashing Don't Walk signal shall obey the directions of that signal as follows:
(1) 
When facing a steady Don't Walk signal, a pedestrian shall not start to cross the roadway in the direction of the signal, but any pedestrian who has partially completed his crossing on the walk signal should proceed to a sidewalk or safety zone while the Don't Walk signal is showing.
(2) 
When facing a flashing Don't Walk signal, a pedestrian shall not start to cross the roadway in the direction of the indication, but any pedestrian who has partly completed crossing during the walk indication should proceed to a sidewalk or safety zone.
B. 
Any pedestrian who fails to obey the directions of a Don't Walk signal, as indicated above, shall be guilty of a summary offense and a violation of this article.
It shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to:
A. 
Cross any roadway in a business district within the Township except in a crosswalk.
B. 
Cross the roadway, in any of the following portions of streets in the Township, except in a crosswalk, at the streets or portions thereof so designated by the Traffic Regulations Commission.
Any pedestrian who violates any provision of this article shall be guilty of a summary offense and, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine as set forth in Article III, General Penalty Provisions, of Chapter 1, General Provisions.