Will they know what Double Lines mean?

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Re: Will they know what Double Lines mean?

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xandreu wrote: ↑Sat Mar 27, 2021 12:20 am
timmydownawell wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:19 am Better still there's a freshly painted pedestrian crossing around the corner from me. As if anyone knows what that means.
Coming from a country which generally respects the zebra crossing with drivers almost always stopping to allow people to cross, it baffles me what the point of these are in most other countries around the world when nobody takes a blind bit of notice of them.
It is much the same with the junction at 154 and Riverside, the area opposite the Pagoda.

A couple of years back they painted a very nice and well organised set of lanes to drive on and chevroned areas to keep off. Utterly pointless. The chevroned areas have been driven on so much the are wearing out already.
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xandreu wrote: ↑Sat Mar 27, 2021 12:20 am
timmydownawell wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:19 am Better still there's a freshly painted pedestrian crossing around the corner from me. As if anyone knows what that means.
Coming from a country which generally respects the zebra crossing with drivers almost always stopping to allow people to cross, it baffles me what the point of these are in most other countries around the world when nobody takes a blind bit of notice of them.
Nobody stops because they don't see any zebras around. If they paint some people crossings, the situation may improve.

On a more serious note, I was in Kandy, Sri Lanka a couple of decades ago, and drivers would come to a complete stop for you at the crossings even if you were just idly standing on the corner trying to decide which way to go. This was just after living in Bangkok for a few years, where they generally speed up at crossings, so at first, I got confused and thought they were attempting to kidnap me for ransom.
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Re: Will they know what Double Lines mean?

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sigmoid wrote: ↑Sat Mar 27, 2021 9:45 am On a more serious note, I was in Kandy, Sri Lanka a couple of decades ago, and drivers would come to a complete stop for you at the crossings even if you were just idly standing on the corner trying to decide which way to go.
On the whole, I found Sri Lanka to be something of a breath of fresh air within Asia, in the same way that Asia is compared to the more rigid norms of Europe. It still had the character that many of us like about Asia, without an excess of the sheer stupid.

Traffic jams often involved herds of cattle, but driving manners were much more civilised. Still raw, but not so feral.
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