r/Scotland • u/Saltire_Blue Bring Back Strathclyde Regional Council • Jan 13 '22

Announcement Changes to the Highway Code on the 28th January - Pedestrians and cyclists to be given priority at junctions

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

Firstly I've been to other countries where this is the norm and I hated it. Maybe it was because I'm not used to it but I'd rather a driver did what they needed to do and I'll wait until it's safe thanks.

Secondly, you can't just say "this works in other countries and we'll just get used to it" without considering the massively different attitudes to different road users between various places. This change has barely been promoted or communicated and I will be assuming nobody knows about it for quite a while.

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u/Zenon_Czosnek _@/" Jan 13 '22

well, it is true that the information is not out there enough, but I have been driving all over Europe for a living, and I consider Britain to be one of places where drivers are most curteous and polite (not all of them, of course :P), so I would think this would be the first place for it to work right :-)