# Are pilots supposed to look both ways before crossing the runway?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 26, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-pilots-supposed-to-look-both-ways-before-crossing-the-runway/1014828 "2025-02-26T13:48:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bob\_Blaylock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_blaylock/32/3235_2.png) [@Bob\_Blaylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Blaylock)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-pilots-supposed-to-look-both-ways-before-crossing-the-runway/1014828/44 "2025-03-01T01:15:19Z")

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> [@Seanette](#):
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> @Bob_Blaylock and I do not exactly live in a high-end part of town, as the roads and other infrastructure can testify if you compare our part of town to the higher-priority (read: richer or politician-infested) areas.

&nbsp; You don’t drive nearly as much as I do out of our neighborhood, out of the Sacramento area.&nbsp; The condition of the roads and related infrastructure is pretty much the same just about everywhere that I’ve been in the past decade or two.&nbsp; I think I’ve only seen it otherwise the few times we’ve ventured out of state, into Nevada or Oregon.

&nbsp; It’s almost obvious, just as you cross the state line, that the roads suddenly become better on the not-California side of the line.

&nbsp; Which now has me realizing that I don’t think we’ve taken the current Jeep out of California.&nbsp; The first Jeep, before it [sank](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tying-up-loose-ends-in-the-mmp/1011700/239), had been to Nevada at least two or three times, and once into Oregon.

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