Re: Pedestrians give way to cars

["Rob" <blobigus@optus.net.au>]

It's the same in Rome....don't look at the driver, just march on regardless
and they will stop.......if you got the courage to do it.
Cheers,
Rob
Neil Waller <nwaller@dehaa.sa.gov.au> wrote in message
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> Anthony Morton wrote:
> >
> > Bob Scheurle <scheurle@z-eclipse-z.net> wrote:
> >
> > >I guess you've never been to New Jersey.  (Technically, pedestrians
> > >have the right of way at marked crossings, but the drivers don't know
> > >that and the pedestrians don't know that.)
> >
> > The same thing happens in Paris, of all places.  Crossing one of their
> > boulevardes is cheating death.
> >
> > TM
>
>
> Or in Indonesia's big cities.
>
> Basically the traffic is chaos.   But crossing the road is easy.
>
> You just do it.   Step off the pavement and wave the traffic down
> and it all parts for you.
>
> Well that is how the locals do it.   I never really had the courage.
>
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