Outline of O&M Skills/Concepts for Crossing Streets
This list is excerpted from a more comprehensive list of skills and concepts needed for independent travel.

Street crossing

General street-crossing skills:
- Recognize street edge
- Determine width of street / distance of passing cars
- Initial alignment strategies
  - Maintain line of travel
  - Use traffic sounds
  - Curb alignment inside from corner
  - Return and approach again, maintaining line of trave
- Understand time needed to cross various widths
- Maintain straight line of travel during crossing
- Recover from veer
- Determine sources of danger, know how to reduce / avoid risk
- Know and use alternative strategies when risk is not acceptable
- Analyze unfamiliar intersections -- determine:
  - Geometry
  - Traffic control
  - Appropriate crossing technique
Crossings with no traffic control
- Judge gap detection and risk
- Understand pedestrian laws
- Visually scan / glance for traffic efficiently
- Understand the effect of masking and blocking traffic sounds
Signalized intersections
- Actuation vs. fixed-time
  - How actuation works
  - Common features to recognize actuation
- Analyze traffic pattern
- Determine best time to cross
- Three sources of danger:
  - Reduce / avoid risk
- Pedestrian buttons / WALK signals
  - how to find and use pedestrian buttons
- Separate (channelized) right-turning lanes

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