In his letter to the editor, Ed Warner suggests that drivers don't know the law when it comes to pedestrian crossings. Perhaps he's the one that needs to brush up on the laws. Drivers must stop for pedestrians in crosswalks. Now then, what's so complicated about that? I'll throw in the concession "unless otherwise posted," as here in Monkton there is one sign that actually says "... for pedestrians at crosswalks," a departure from the norm.

I've been a passenger in a vehicle where the driver feels it's "nice" to slow to a stop and wave a pedestrian across, the problem being the driver behind us didn't anticipate this unexpected act of kindness (and misinterpretation of the law) and all but ran into the back of us! This is not unlike stopping on a main artery to wave traffic out from a secondary road — nice, but the traffic behind you isn't expecting it. Being "nice" can cause an accident.

Last, if you're into carbon footprints, stopping and restarting a ton and a half of steel burns up a lot more energy than if the pedestrian simply crosses after you've passed.

Peter Bell, Monkton