A white PED XING legend is painted in your travel lane. What does this marking tell you?
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A.
A marked crosswalk is ahead. Correct
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B.
The lane is reserved for pedestrian use only.
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C.
You are entering a school zone.
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D.
Pedestrians must yield to vehicles crossing here.
The answer is "A marked crosswalk is ahead."
PED XING is the pavement abbreviation for pedestrian crossing, painted white in the travel lane to give drivers advance notice that a marked crosswalk is ahead. The trap is the answer that treats a word painted in the travel lane as reserving that lane for pedestrian use, the way a BUS ONLY legend does; PED XING is a warning aimed at approaching drivers, not a lane designation.
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B. The lane is reserved for pedestrian use only.
The legend warns of a crossing ahead and does not convert the travel lane into a pedestrian-only space. This answer reads a word painted in the lane as a designation of the lane itself, the way a BUS ONLY legend reserves the lane for buses.
C. You are entering a school zone.
PED XING marks an approaching pedestrian crossing, not a school-zone boundary. This answer treats any pavement word about pedestrians as a school-zone marker because school crossings dominate driver memory of painted road words, when the school-zone message uses the separate SCHOOL legend and school-related symbols.
D. Pedestrians must yield to vehicles crossing here.
The legend cues drivers to slow down and yield to people in the crosswalk, not the reverse. This answer flips the yield direction, treating a word painted for approaching drivers as an instruction aimed at pedestrians.
This question tests your knowledge of Road Markings on the roads of every US state . Source: Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, marking 3B.21 (PED XING Pavement Legend)..
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