Blue Springs, MO Public Conduct: Jaywalking (2026)

Section 345.060, "Prohibited Crossing," is Blue Springs' jaywalking rule, sitting inside Chapter 345, Pedestrians' Rights and Duties. It lists four specific bans rather than a blanket prohibition on crossing outside a crosswalk. Subsection (A) forbids crossing anywhere except in a crosswalk between adjacent intersections where traffic control signals are operating, meaning a pedestrian on a signalized stretch of road cannot cut across mid-block even where no curb-to-curb crosswalk exists. Subsection (B) extends that ban to any business district regardless of signals, reflecting the higher pedestrian and vehicle volume downtown along Main Street and similar commercial corridors.

Subsection (C) allows the City to designate additional streets by ordinance where crossing outside a crosswalk is barred, giving Public Works and the Police Department a tool to add crossing restrictions on a specific corridor without rewriting the Code. Subsection (D) separately bars diagonal crossing through an intersection unless official traffic control devices authorize it, and even then a pedestrian must follow the specific markings for that diagonal movement rather than cutting the corner freely. Outside these four situations, Section 345.050 continues to govern: a pedestrian crossing anywhere other than a marked or unmarked crosswalk at an intersection must yield to all vehicles on the roadway, and Section 345.020 gives pedestrians the right-of-way only inside marked crosswalks when signals are not controlling the intersection.