jaywalking is still an offence punishable by the highway traffic act & cops are dicks

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@bob_loblaw

after looking closely at my ticket, and at the ontario highway traffic act, i’ve found two important things: first, there is no prohibition in the act against jaywalking.
what i’ve actually been ticketed for is a violation of hta section 144(25) :

which is not what happened – i crossed the road mid-block.

What about section 144 (22)?

Pedestrian crossing

  (22)  Where portions of a roadway are marked for pedestrian use, no pedestrian shall cross the roadway except within a portion so marked.  R.S.O. 1990, c. H.8, s. 144 (22).

This is, of course, presuming that there is a crosswalk at the end of the block, marked for pedestrian use. If that is the case, the officer may very well have marked your ticket incorrectly, which gives you an easy out, but he may have been correct that you were crossing illegally.