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I've never heard it called a crosswalk. We call it a crossing.
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We having "crossings" too: deer crossings, horse crossings, duck and goose crossings, and I'm sure lots more, like turkey crossings... You need to heed the wild animal ones because they usually mean the likelihood of needing to stop to avoid an accident is good. Don't you have any "koala crossings" or "kangaroo crossings"? Our signs are usually just a picture symbol of the crosser in question... :0)
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I was always taught left-right-left. which I assume would be right-left-right in other places that do things differently.
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We having "crossings" too: deer crossings, horse crossings, duck and goose crossings, and I'm sure lots more, like turkey crossings... You need to heed the wild animal ones because they usually mean the likelihood of needing to stop to avoid an accident is good. Don't you have any "koala crossings" or "kangaroo crossings"? Our signs are usually just a picture symbol of the crosser in question... :0) A crosswalk here would probably be an enclosed walkway joining two buildings above the street. We have pedestrian crossings (which last century used to be called zebra crossings. We have signs with kangaroos, wombats, koalas, camels, ducks, and geriatrics. To name a few. We also have animal underpasses in some places where there are colonies of rare animals.
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I don't know what they're called in other places, but in my city the enclosed walkways between buildings are called "skywalks" or "skyways". They are often connected to parking garages.
Camels? Never heard of them there! :0)
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Are there camels in Tasmania??
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Are there camels in Tasmania?? No, but we have them in the Northern Territory. They are feral animals left over from the days when Afghan drivers provided transport for early explorers and traders.
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I don't know what they're called in other places, but in my city the enclosed walkways between buildings are called "skywalks" or "skyways". They are often connected to parking garages. Are they called "skywalks" or "skyways" even if they're on ground level?
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Nope. I was responding to Pook's "above the ground" explanation. I don't know of any ground level, fully enclosed walkways around here. There are some covered passageways, but they are open-air. Our church includes one in renovation plans, but will probably get scrapped first if funds are lacking. It is called a cloister, although that usually is attached to a wall on one side, and this one would be so in one part, but free-standing between the buildings. For the curious: cloister plan It is also slated to be fully enclosed and heated. Then I would know of one on ground level. :0)
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when I was in Middle School we had an (unheated) pass-through from building to building which we lovingly called the "cattle chute"...
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