The Hall constant RH is considered for the stripe structures. In order to explain the vanishing of RH in La2−y−xNdySrxCuO4 at x = 1/8, we use the relation of RH to the Drude weight D as well as direct numerical calculation, to obtain results within the t-J model, where the stripes are imposed via a charge potential and a staggered magnetic field. The origin of RH ∼ 0 is related to a maximum in D and the minimal kinetic energy in stripes with a hole filling ∼ 1/2. The same argument indicates on a possibility of RH ∼ 0 in the whole range of static stripes for x ≤ 1/8. PACS numbers: 71.27.+a, 71.10.Fd, 72.15.Gd The evidence for the stripe structures in La 2−y−x Nd y Sr x CuO 4 (LNSCO) emerging from neutron scattering experiments [1] has stimulated in recent years numerous experimental and theoretical investigations, trying to relate this phenomenon to superconductivity and other anomalous properties of cuprates. In the commensurate case x ∼ 1/8 the stripe structure represents spin and charge ordering, i.e., domain walls within an ordered two-dimensional antiferromagnet (AFM) with the filling of n l = N h /L = 1/2 hole per unit length (quarter filling in the usual band picture) within each domain wall -stripe. Actually, it was shown in the recent angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy experiments that the stripes are in the quarter filled state [2]. In contrast to many other systems showing spin-density wave and charge-density wave order at low temperatures, the stripe structures in cuprates appear to be metallic [3]. This can be explained with charge carriers -holes being well mobile along the one-dimensional (1D) stripes. Recently, a systematic study of LNSCO (y = 0.6) with varying doping x [4] revealed a striking signature of stripes in the behavior of the Hall constant R H . While for x > 0.15 R H (x, T ) is very close to that of the reference doped La 2−x Sr x CuO 4 (LSCO), R H appears to be very sensitive to the structural phase transition between the lowtemperature tetragonal (LTT) and orthorhombic (LTO) phase for x < 0.15. Below the LTT-LTO transition R H becomes strongly T and x dependent and it eventually vanishes, R H ∼ 0, at T ∼ 0 for x ∼ 0.12, i.e., in the structure with long range stripe order. At the same time the anomaly is weakly pronounced in the planar resistivity ρ ab [4].In the present paper, we investigate R H in stripe structures and in particular a possible explanation for its vanishing. R H ∼ 0 in a conducting system is quite unusual and non universal. For instance, it could happen in an ordinary metal due to (accidental) cancellation of band curvatures or due to band crossings. However, cuprates are closer to hole-doped Mott insulators where in the reference LSCO a (semiconductor-like) semiclassical R H ∝ 1/x is followed in a wide range x < 0.2 at low T . R H ∼ 0 in LNSCO at x ∼ 1/8 is, on the other hand, a very pronounced deviation from the latter. Therefore, one can speculate on more fundamental origin of this most pronounced macroscopic effect of stripes whereby the strong correlat...