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Boulder, CO Municipal Code <br />9/25/20, 2:16 PM <br />5-6-15. - Pedestrian Interference in Roadway Prohibited. <br />Every pedestrian crossing or otherwise within a roadway shall yield the right of way to and avoid any <br />interference with all vehicles upon or approaching the roadway. This section does not apply to <br />pedestrians crossing in crosswalks or in accordance with Subsection 7-5-15(d), B.R.C. 1981, or to <br />pedestrians walking along and upon roadways designated as shared streets. <br />Ordinance Nos. 7965 (2014); 7996 (2014) <br />5-6-16. - Staying on Medians Prohibited. <br />(a) No person shall stand or be upon a median of any street for longer than is reasonably <br />necessary to cross the street. <br />(b) For the purposes of this section, median means: <br />(1) The area of a street, generally in the middle, which separates traffic traveling in one <br />direction from traffic traveling in another direction, or which, at intersections, <br />separates traffic turning left from traffic proceeding straight. Such an area is <br />physically defined by curbing, landscaping, or other physical obstacles to the area's <br />use by motor vehicles, or by traffic control markings which prohibit use of a portion <br />of the pavement of a street by motor vehicles other than to drive generally <br />perpendicularly across the markings, or to wait there awaiting the opportunity to <br />cross or merge with the opposing lanes of traffic (also known as painted medians, <br />which are wider than a double yellow line); or <br />(2) The area of a street at an intersection between the streets and a right turn only lane, <br />roughly triangular in shape, and separated from the motor vehicular traffic lanes by <br />curbing, landscaping, or other physical obstacles to the area's use by motor vehicles <br />(also known as a right turn island). <br />(c) This section does not apply to any median other than those which are unpaved or less <br />than thirty-six inches wide, to the medians on Mapleton Avenue between Fourth Street <br />and Ninth Street, or to persons maintaining or working on the median for the government <br />which owns the underlying right of way or for a public utility. <br />Ordinance Nos. 7965 (2014); 8382 (2020) <br />about:blank <br />20 <br />Page 1 of 1 <br />