Green Cross Code

Hello Donna or Diane how are you.

This is an interesting subject, when I first came to live in Spain over 10 years ago, you used zebra crossings at your own peril, and now it’s seems to be the total opposite.

Have a good day.

Different country, different people, different attitudes, different habits, do you need me to go on?

It is what it is, accept it and adapt coz for sure you ain't gonna change it. 

Yes. That is normal. hence many ( not all) will stop, even thinking you "might" approaching a (zebra????) crossing in Spain. respect started here! pedestrians came first, I think respect started first, hence (possibly) less "green" X roads. That is why, here, the kids crossing roads at school time. The local police will shut off the road.

UK had an IT different approach, Lollipops ladies, Adverts with Saville, Green giant man, etc

UK eg¨1971: The UK government begins reporting annually on the number of people killed and seriously injured on the country’s roads. There are 7,699 deaths and 344,000 injuries reported this year.

UK 2017: The Carvin family speak direct to camera in a powerful advert urging drivers to put their phone away while driving. The campaign launches the same day that the penalties double for drivers caught using their phone behind the wheel: from 3 to 6 penalty points and fines from £100 to £200.

Now UK & EU are thinking more sensibility? by putting MORE NOISE ELECTRIC futuristic, SILENCE ON THE MOTORS & CARS to make more noise so pedestrians can hear all the noise. Have we got it quite the wrong way round?

Sorry, didn´t hear that?

Villas

Yes of course I do appreciate that.  My point is that people walk across the road totally oblivious to oncoming traffic. I am amazed some people aren't knocked down. 

Many thanks Nakabandi. Just trying to get peoples opinions.

Donna

There isn't any such thing as a green cross code in Spain. There are several mentions in traffic law, but all the principal one says is

...although they have priority, pedestrians should only enter the road when the distance and speed of the approaching vehicles allow them to do so safely...

In France you used to risk your life crossing the street. It is getting a little better now. In Monaco, the driver's stop 10m from the crossing even if the pedestrian is still walking to the crossing. Here in Spain I have found the driver's pretty good - being a pedestrian and short distance bicycle rider. I just wish they would have more guts and double up to pass the bicycle. 

Not really any different from back home except here in Spain many holiday makers seem to have left their common sense in the Airport Terminal before boarding their flight. I have seen on a staggering number of occasions people stepping out into the road without looking or walking down the middle of the street and then giving a driver a dirty look for even existing when they want to drive past.

Rules and laws of the road are meaningless the world over, always some selfish sods who think the rules don't apply to them, the attitude seems to be I'm alright so sod everyone else.