On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 13:40:38 +0100
Bruce 'Not Glug' Lee wrote:
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:

Clearly no one in France has read it, but then the French tend to take a
relaxed approach to rules anyway.

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.

Hmm, not sure I'd want to put that to the test tbh. It might work 99% of the
time but the 1% is when you'll end up getting carted off to Emergencie by SAMU.