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maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I don’t know what it’s like now but when I lived it Melbourne I witnessed several hair raising moments when drivers blew past passengers getting off.
I also do not recall anyone ever being encouraged to step out on to the road to get cars to stop! That’s lunacy if true. Unless I misheard.
It never occurred to me that maybe many of the near misses were by out-of-towners. I think that’s unlikely. Who knows.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I might also have misheard it, but I recall being confused by the same section you were. In my case, I heard it not as something people are actively encouraged to do, but as a learned behaviour that’s somehow meant to make things safer. Only, I’m not sure how that’s supposed to work…
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 1 day ago
I’m the opposite. I wait for a full stop. Even when the light goes green for pedestrians I wait and check the cars have stopped on both sides. I’m always amazed how confident people are that a tonne or two of flying metal they haven’t checked to make sure isn’t there wont flatten them. Light a red light means anything to physics.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 day ago
My problem is that by doing that, you reward those drivers who deliberately try to take advantage and ignore the law.
Because they’ll speed around the corner and go on with their day, probably not even realising they did anything wrong. What I do is still safe: I know I won’t be in the way if they do keep speeding through. But it means if they try to speed through, they’re gonna get one hell of a fright in the process.
maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Nope. Even when a car stops at a pedestrian crossing that doesn’t have pedestrian lights or a zebra crossing (like a roundabout for example), if I cannot see the driver through the windshield and make eye contact then I will wave them through and try to signal that I cannot see them and sometimes will even mouth out, say or even shout ‘I cannot see you’. Even when I know they are sitting there waving me on, if I cannot see them I won’t budge.