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>>It's interesting the amount of adjusting it takes for you as pedestrian to get used to which side to make sure to look to before crossing You should always l

>>It's interesting the amount of adjusting it takes for you as pedestrian to get used to which side to make sure to look to before crossing You should always look both ways regardless of which side a car is driving on. Reason is that bicycles sometimes drive in the opposite direction as cars. Also, sometimes cars, for whatever reason, will drive in reverse.

kraftman 8y ago
I think they're referring to places like roundabouts where you can cross halfway and the traffic only comes from one direction. Cars would never reverse off a roundabout and it's illegal and pretty dangerous to bike into a roundabout from the wrong direction.
- cwillu 8y ago
  The last percentage of risk is whether you bother checking for things that "can't" happen because "nobody would ever do that."
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lscotte 8y ago
When crossing two-way streets in countries that are opposite my own, I found it's trickier than it sounds due to some subtle subconscious thing even when you look both ways.
ClassyJacket 8y ago
>You should always look both ways regardless of which side a car is driving on. This is true, but when I finally went to a right-side country (Czechia) at age 29, I discovered that contrary to what I believed, I must not be, because I kept only looking right.
- rendaw 8y ago
  Concur. I believe that regardless of whether you look both ways or just one, if you're not expecting cars to be oncoming in a certain direction you're unlikely to see them.
gnud 8y ago
In primary school, we learned to look 'left, then right, then left again' before crossing. This is really muscle memory for me now. That would have to be reversed in a country with left-side driving.
danieltillett 8y ago
You are correct to worry about cars in reverse. I was nearly killed crossing the road when some idiot decided that going at 50km/hr in reverse up a one way street was a wise idea.
tsukurimashou 8y ago
The order matters too and is different if people drive on the left or on the right

kraftman 8y ago

I think they're referring to places like roundabouts where you can cross halfway and the traffic only comes from one direction. Cars would never reverse off a roundabout and it's illegal and pretty dangerous to bike into a roundabout from the wrong direction.

cwillu 8y ago
The last percentage of risk is whether you bother checking for things that "can't" happen because "nobody would ever do that."
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lscotte 8y ago

When crossing two-way streets in countries that are opposite my own, I found it's trickier than it sounds due to some subtle subconscious thing even when you look both ways.

ClassyJacket 8y ago

>You should always look both ways regardless of which side a car is driving on. This is true, but when I finally went to a right-side country (Czechia) at age 29, I discovered that contrary to what I believed, I must not be, because I kept only looking right.

rendaw 8y ago
Concur. I believe that regardless of whether you look both ways or just one, if you're not expecting cars to be oncoming in a certain direction you're unlikely to see them.

gnud 8y ago

In primary school, we learned to look 'left, then right, then left again' before crossing. This is really muscle memory for me now. That would have to be reversed in a country with left-side driving.

danieltillett 8y ago

You are correct to worry about cars in reverse. I was nearly killed crossing the road when some idiot decided that going at 50km/hr in reverse up a one way street was a wise idea.

tsukurimashou 8y ago

The order matters too and is different if people drive on the left or on the right