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This is so far from my experience in every single city I've ever lived in or visited across several continents I'm not sure how you have possibly arrived at thi
by bigDinosaur 5y ago
This is so far from my experience in every single city I've ever lived in or visited across several continents I'm not sure how you have possibly arrived at this experience.
In which city do cars and motorbikes always stop to let you pass? Again, I cannot state how fundamentally foreign this is to me. I can think of only a few cities (which I haven't visited) for which this may be true, and that's limited to a very select number of countries.
- msk-lywenn 5y agoIn Portugal they do stop. That's the only place on earth I've witnessed it. It's... huh... surprisingly weird to, for example, stop on the sidewalk waiting for someone to then notice all the cars stopping for no apparent reason and then only noticing you're in front of a pedestrian crossing. Oops. They sometimes even go as far as to brake so hard when seeing a pedestrian that they cause an accident. I witnessed that one at least twice! Once three cars smashed into each other...
- NoboruWataya 5y agoIt accords with my experience of multiple big cities. The comment you're responding to mentioned "crosswalk" which I take to mean a zebra/pedestrian crossing. Cars and motorcycles do stop at them, as a rule, if only because if they don't stop and something bad happens they are in serious trouble. Some cyclists stop, many don't.
- bigDinosaur 5y agoMy experience has been that most people stop, but certainly not all. If they always stopped you would never have to look both ways before crossing at a zebra crossing - but doing so has literally probably saved me from being killed or severely injured multiple times. Certainly there's no place I've been where it's only cyclists who are poorly behaved.
- sdevonoes 5y agoFair point. Western Europe.
- bigDinosaur 5y agoWhich country? It sounds like it might be nice to visit.