or look at the road, adapt your speed to not run over anything, pedestrians included
people in cars assume that it’s the others that have to be careful and not the person driving one tonne of metal on wheels…
In France, and probably most countries in the world, pedestrians are priority on crosswalk (without lights): it’s just like a Yield the right-of-way intersection when you can engage only if it’s free, and therefore have to slow down.
But we were taught as kids to thank drivers for stopping when it’s actually the law, by this logic I should thank people for stopping at stop signs, red light and stuffs…
We drive on the other side, so it’s our left turns. Newer intersections have a red left arrow while the pedestrian light is on green, then the red arrow goes out and the drivers may turn.
Older intersections have slip lanes which are pretty dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists
or look at the road, adapt your speed to not run over anything, pedestrians included
people in cars assume that it’s the others that have to be careful and not the person driving one tonne of metal on wheels…
In France, and probably most countries in the world, pedestrians are priority on crosswalk (without lights): it’s just like a Yield the right-of-way intersection when you can engage only if it’s free, and therefore have to slow down.
But we were taught as kids to thank drivers for stopping when it’s actually the law, by this logic I should thank people for stopping at stop signs, red light and stuffs…
My youngest and I have done a lot of walking through our town the last few summers and any close calls were mostly
We drive on the other side, so it’s our left turns. Newer intersections have a red left arrow while the pedestrian light is on green, then the red arrow goes out and the drivers may turn.
Older intersections have slip lanes which are pretty dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists
Yeah but the problem at least here is right on red is by default unless explicitly disallowed, whereas lights like that are nowhere near as common