Note in the above photograph that there are 3 little men signalling when you can cross the street.
Note that there is a red man on the far right and a red man on the far left and man in the middle is green.
I am not sure that it is clear from the photograph but the little man that is green is actually for the part of the road that is furtherest away. The two red signals are for the two interior lanes of the road which are the BUS LANES.
The Boulevard Montparnasse is now divided like this
Lane 1 (furtherest lane) - normal traffic flowing west (he with the green light)
Lane 2 BUS LANE travelling west (he with the red light)
Lane 3 BUS LANE travelling east (also with red light)
Lane 4 normal traffic flowing east (light must have been green as I am already standing at the bus lane bit)
Do you know how easy it is to look at the furtherest little green man and see he is green and then step out into the traffic - and then get hit by a bus?!!!!
1 comments:
Ok, that is a little mad. I remember seeing a traffic light on Top Gear that had about 20 different sets on it, and thinking how on earth could people possibly know which was intended for them?
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