4.5. Does a pedestrian have the right to demand that executive authorities, owners of motor roads, streets, and railway crossings create conditions to ensure road traffic safety?
UAЧи має право пішохід вимагати від органів виконавчої влади, власників автомобільних доріг, вулиць та залізничних переїздів створення умов для забезпечення безпеки дорожнього руху?
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This exam question from the Traffic Rules of Ukraine concerns road safety and the role of the pedestrian as a full participant. According to the traffic rules, a pedestrian is not a “passive observer” — they have defined rights that directly influence the organization of safe infrastructure: the presence of crossings, lighting, markings, signs, and properly equipped places for crossing the roadway and railway crossings.
The question tests knowledge of Section 4 “Duties and Rights of Pedestrians” and specifically clause 4.16 (b), which establishes the right of a pedestrian to appeal to executive authorities and owners of roads, streets, and railway crossings with a demand to create conditions ensuring traffic safety. Additionally, it is useful to remember the definition from clause 1.10: pedestrians also include, in particular, people in wheelchairs without an engine, those who are pushing a bicycle or moped, or pushing a baby stroller — thus, the right to safe conditions extends to a wide range of people.
During the theoretical exam, it is important to understand the logic of the options: denying this right contradicts the direct rule of the Traffic Rules, since clause 4.16 not only describes the right of way at crossings, but also provides a tool to influence those responsible for infrastructure. In practice, this means the legal ability to demand the elimination of hazardous conditions: restoring zebra markings, installing signs, organizing lighting at night, arranging a sidewalk or a safe approach to a crossing, or improving the area near a railway crossing.
Clause 4.16 (pedestrian rights), subclause b)
The pedestrian has the right to: a) priority when crossing the carriageway at marked unregulated pedestrian crossings, as well as at regulated crossings when there is an appropriate signal from a traffic controller or traffic light; b) demand from executive authorities, owners of motor roads, streets, and railway crossings the creation of conditions to ensure road traffic safety.
This clause directly establishes the pedestrian's right to apply with a demand for safe traffic conditions to the responsible authorities and infrastructure owners.
Clause 1.10 (the term "Pedestrian")
Pedestrian — a person participating in road traffic outside of vehicles and not performing any work on the road. Persons moving in wheelchairs without an engine, leading a bicycle, moped, motorcycle, pulling a sled, cart, baby carriage, or wheelchair are also considered pedestrians.
This definition clarifies who exactly is a pedestrian as a road user to whom the rights provided by clause 4.16 apply.
Therefore, the correct answer is "Yes, they have.", given that according to the definition of the Traffic Rules, a pedestrian as a road user is directly vested with the right under clause 4.16 b) to demand the creation of conditions for ensuring road traffic safety.
The pedestrian is regarded in the Traffic Rules as a full-fledged participant in road traffic. Pedestrians include not only those who walk on foot, but also persons moving in a wheelchair without an engine, or those leading a bicycle or moped, pushing a baby carriage, and so on. That is, this is a broad list of people who use streets and crossings daily and have legal rights to safe traffic conditions.
The rights of pedestrians are defined in Section 4 of the Traffic Rules. Clause 4.16 directly states that a pedestrian not only has the right to cross safely at designated places, but also a separate right to address demands to executive authorities and to the owners of roads, streets, and railway crossings to ensure traffic safety conditions.
In practice, this means that if there are dangerous conditions for pedestrians in a certain area, a person can legally demand their elimination. For example: to restore or apply pedestrian crossing markings, install or replace road signs, organize lighting during dark hours, arrange a sidewalk or approach to a crossing, or bring the railway crossing area into proper condition. Such demands are not "requests," but the exercise of a right defined by the Rules for pedestrian safety.
Thus, the correct answer is "Has the right," since clause 4.16 (b) of the Traffic Rules of Ukraine grants the pedestrian the right to demand that executive authorities and owners of roads, streets, and railway crossings create conditions to ensure road traffic safety.