Wyandotte County, KS Public Conduct: Jaywalking (2026)

Section 35-400, titled 'Crossing at other than crosswalks; jaywalking,' sets four rules. First, any pedestrian who crosses a roadway at a point that is not a marked crosswalk, and not an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection, must yield the right-of-way to every vehicle on the roadway, meaning the driver has the right-of-way rather than the walker. Second, if the Unified Government has built a pedestrian tunnel or overhead crossing at a location, a pedestrian who crosses at street level there instead must still yield to traffic.

Third, between two adjacent intersections that both have working traffic-control signals, pedestrians cannot cross anywhere except in a marked crosswalk; jaywalking directly between signalized intersections is barred outright, not just disfavored. Fourth, diagonal crossing through an intersection is prohibited unless official traffic-control devices specifically authorize it, and where it is authorized pedestrians must follow the markings for that movement. These rules sit alongside § 35-398, which requires pedestrians to obey traffic-control devices and signals, and § 35-399, which gives pedestrians right-of-way only inside a marked or unmarked intersection crosswalk when no signal is controlling traffic. A. 8-1534.