There is no such thing as an elephant zebra crossing. It should be a combination of crosswalks and zebras or a combination of people and animals. There is a very famous zebra crossing in Menglian County, Yunnan Province, which is famous for its numerous restaurants on both sides of the road. In many places in China, people often say that there are pictographic zebra crossings. In fact, this is a route drawn by traffic police and volunteers. These routes look like patterns of elephants and zebras.

The design of pictographic zebra crossing not only plays the role of a beautiful new traffic sign, but also plays the role of guiding pedestrians to cross the road in an orderly manner, which is of great help to traffic safety norms. This is to remind passing vehicles to slow down and pay attention to safety, and it is also a warm reminder to children. Therefore, it can be said that this design is not only practical and interesting, but also enables people to better understand and learn relevant traffic safety knowledge and concepts.

Historical origin of zebra crossing

Zebra crossing originated from jumping stones in ancient Rome. As early as ancient Rome, in some streets of Pompeii, chariots and horses crossed with pedestrians, which often caused traffic jams and accidents in the city. To this end, people will separate the sidewalk from the carriage road, heighten the sidewalk, and build protruding stones on the road near Ma Lukou as a sign to instruct pedestrians to cross the road. Pedestrians can walk slowly across the road on these jumping stones. When the carriage is running, the jumper is just between the two wheels of the carriage.

Later, many cities used this method. /kloc-At the end of 0/9th century, with the invention of automobiles, the traffic in the city was rolling, and people crossed the road at will, which hindered the traffic. The previous kind of rock jumping can't avoid frequent traffic accidents. In the early 1950s, the British designed a crosswalk in the street, stipulating that pedestrians should only take crosswalks when crossing the street, so a series of eye-catching crosswalks appeared on the streets of London, so people called them zebra crossings.