Longer and shorter

[bktheirregular]

Leoforos Vasileas Sofias (Queen Sophia Avenue). Six lanes. Four seconds to cross. You think I'm kidding?

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[thanatos-kalos.livejournal.com]

I think that's the street I was on, in a taxi, where the driver nearly killed a beat cop trying to get across...

[bktheirregular]

Heh. Somehow that doesn't surprise me. Athens taxicabs are either a crapshoot or Russian roulette anyway...

[chibiaingeal.livejournal.com]

Obviously over there they don't give even one iota about the safety of pedestrians. Are the natives so used to it that pedestrians seldom get injured or die over there?

[bktheirregular]

I think that constant fear for their lives may add to pedestrians' survival instincts here. That, or the drivers may worry that if a cop gets called, he might be carrying a submachine gun and a bad attitude.