Life in the Philippines - crossing a street
Ok, this video is me crossing a typical small side street. I had just come out of ‘Mega Mall’ and was crossing a side street on my way to Shaw Boulevard.
This crossing went very smoothly and is quite typical. I usually try to be in a group for safety sake but this time was out in front so that I could video it all. If I was crossing a large road I would normally get to the center yelow line and then have to wait for a seemingly safe break in traffic in order to start negotiating my way across that side.
As you can tell here it is very typical that neither pedestrians nor cars, trucks, etc every really stop to let each other past … instead it is an orchestra of milling people and vehicles. In the end I always seem to make it across and still have not heard or seem a single accident. It likely helps that the typical speed is abour 30 Kph. You can also see that I used a pedestrian crossing here … normally people just cross where ever they like and it goes pretty much the same as this.