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**Bruce 'Not Glug' Lee** · September 14th 18, 01:40 PM posted to uk.rec.cycling,uk.transport

wrote:

There is another rule in france - unlike in the UK they're not oblidged
to stop until the pedestrian is *ON* the crossing.

This has not been the case since 2011, see article R415-11 of the Code de
la Route:

'Tout conducteur est tenu de céder le passage, au besoin en s'arrêtant,
au piéton s'engageant régulièrement dans la traversée d'une chaussée ou
_manifestant clairement l'intention de le faire_...'
(emphasis mine)

If you just stand at the side like a lemon you'll just have a stream of
traffic going past you. All in all it makes crossing the road in a busy
french city a rather unpleasent experience.

When I still lived in Paris, I would regularly walk down the bd des
Maréchaux from Porte de Vincennes to Porte Dorée. That boulevard has
sevral passages without lights, and if you tried to cross, you were
subjected to horns, abuse and occasionally threats. The only way to stop
bullying is the use of force - or the credible threat of force.

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john smith |MA (Hons)|MPhil (Hons)|CAPES (mention très bien)|LLB (Hons)
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