Little Green Man Walking by Rixie
Motorcycles are everywhere ? seeing them parked in lines on the sidewalk, you?d think that the Hell?s Angels were in town. Where the Dutch have bicycles, Parisians have motos and velos. They sometimes drive down the sidewalk.Les Parisiens are not big on regulations. You can almost see the Gallic shrug. Motorists park wherever they please: facing in either direction, half on the sidewalk, and on corners, sticking out into the intersection. Their motto seems to be, ?If there?s no parking space there, make one of your own.?
Pedestrian signals (little red man standing still, little green man walking) exist only as loose suggestions. The little red man means ?You may have to dodge cars.?