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Fire hydrants are not at all common in European cityscape but you will learn about them from Hollywood movies or from music videos. But in the part of Europe I
by nojokes 6y ago
Fire hydrants are not at all common in European cityscape but you will learn about them from Hollywood movies or from music videos.
But in the part of Europe I am from, if I did not go to the daycare in a larger city, I would not have seen any crosswalks or traffic lights. I could have easily recognized a harvester or a railroad crossing though.
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- OJFord 6y agoIn the part of Europe I live in (London), if I did not go to any sites using reCaptcha, I would not know what a 'crosswalk' is. Even the things I have seen (traffic lights, buses, 'fire hydrants') don't always ('fire hydrants' never) look the same as their American counterparts. It's just a totally ill-conceived system for any global website.
- archon810 6y agoAre you saying London doesn't have crosswalks? I find that hard to believe.
- lokedhs 6y agoThey are called zebra crossings outside the US. They also look different.
- OJFord 6y agoMy understanding is that 'crosswalks' are all legal points (because 'jaywalking' at another point is illegal in the US) of pedestrian crossing. At least in the UK, zebra crossings are a tiny subset of pedestrian crossings. (And you can cross the road wherever you please.)
- OJFord 6y agoLondon has plenty of pedestrian crossings, but they're unmarked, at least not in the same way - a stop line for cars before the lights, sure - except for 'zebra crossings', which look different, have different rules (no traffic lights and cars must give way to pedestrians) and would never be called a 'crosswalk'. I suppose they just don't need to be, because not using one isn't 'jaywalking'. If there's too much traffic you identify a safe crossing by zebra stripes (or flashing beacon) or traffic lights or island. When reCaptcha first asked me to identify the 'crosswalks', sure, I guessed it must be the road markings. But I just (still, to this day) select all the road markings that aren't obviously just centre direction seperating lines. I might get loads wrong, no idea.
- anoncake 6y agoHere fire hydrants are common, but almost always underground.
- dafoex 6y agoSame here. They are usually marked with a yellow "H" sign about a foot tall, and the numbers on it tell the fire brigade where to find the hydrant if its not immediately below the sign.