Hi, this is something I’ve noticed a lot in many parts of Switzerland: drivers feeling that they’re entitled to drive over pedestrian crossings (without lights) even when pedestrians are clearly about to cross or have even begun crossing. There are also many drivers who give way as required at crossings, slowing if it looks like somebody might cross and stopping if it’s clear they want to. This morning, for example, I had both:
- the first, when I was crossing from a tram stop to the footpath to the side of the road, pulled up at the last minute and both driver and passenger started ranting at me (in Swiss-German) about looking before crossing so I wouldn’t block them. I was tempted to stop in the middle of the crossing to continue the conversation, but there were other drivers behind them who had done nothing wrong and I didn’t want to inconvenience them; &
- the second was a driver who saw that I was approaching a marked pedestrian crossing so slowed down about twenty metres before, nodding to me, coasting slowly to within about five metres of the crossing as I made my journey across, then waving and accelerating smoothly away after I was on the footpath. I see far more drivers similar to the latter, but way too many of the former (maybe 10%, by a rough estimate). What’s your experience? Most of mine is in or near Stadt Zürich, but I have had similar experiences of bad drivers in pretty much every canton and city I’ve visited (I’ve never been a pedestrian in about a fifth of the cantons, though, so have no data from them). submitted by /u/JumpingSpider97
Originally posted by u/JumpingSpider97 on r/Switzerland
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