Danger A Gauche
by Pablo Lopez
Title
Danger A Gauche
Artist
Pablo Lopez
Medium
Photograph - Digital Image
Description
Pedestrian Crossing, shot in Paris: Danger A Gauche.
Traffic on the streets of Paris may seem chaotic and disorganized. Parisians seem to roar in a chaos of metal and grey. These are misconceptions. Traffic in Paris is actually harmonious; and Parisians feel nothing but comfort in it. Road rules in Paris are simply vastly unwritten rules.
Some of these unwritten rules regulate normal driving techniques, others define acceptable insult level, others set a social frame to the interactions between car drivers and pedestrians.
In Paris, the sidewalk belongs (mostly) to pedestrians and the road (mostly) to automobiles.
Scooters, bicycles and all other rolling objects tend to choose whichever option seems like the most convenient for them at this point given the state of traffic. Alternating is ok – but drivers of two-wheelers shall in that case be prepared to face older pedestrians’ grumblings.
When it comes to cars and pedestrians, all Parisians know that a car won’t stop for a pedestrian. Especially at a pedestrian crossing. A car which actually stops at a pedestrian crossing shall be honked at. Knowing that they don’t belong at pedestrian crossings, Parisians cross the street mostly randomly. So it’s only logically that Parisians cross the street whenever they feel like it or whenever there is a break in traffic.
The only Parisians crossing at pedestrian crossings are old ones. The rest of the crowd standing there is made up of banlieusards, provinciaux and tourists. This comforts the Parisian car driver in the conviction that stopping there to give way is a bizarre idea.
Since they cross the street in undue places, Parisian pedestrians have to compete with cars for road domination. Parisians are well exercised urban beings.
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September 21st, 2015
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