I don’t understand why people walk in the road, along the road or any part of a surface where cars drive.
There is a perfectly good sidewalk over here people.
If you knew how Chinese, or rather, I should say inexperienced drivers drive when they think they own the road and don’t yield to anything, you wouldn’t even want to leave the house, much less walk on the sidewalk.
You can’t say it’s culture either. I mean, who’s culture is it to walk in harms way on a road..
Maybe because of stories like this?: http://www.chinasmack.com/2012/stories/beijing-sidewalk-collapses-into-scalding-water-killing-woman.html
I was literally just thinking the other day after reading the above (the second of it’s kind reported recently) – I’m never walking on the footpath here again…
I’ve seen that news story as well. I do agree that there are spots that caution should be exercised. Walk on the road, a different path, etc. But, those areas I would imagine are city streets with man hole covers, those green electrical covers, basically anything that doesn’t look like stone. But then again, is stone really stone 100% of the time here.. Uh, .. best hover everywhere. That’d be the only way to not fall into a death pit while walking on the sidewalk avoid being hit by a driver….
Is this north Korea? Where are the cars? Where are the people? In Shanghai to be fair, the sidewalks are so narrow you sometimes have no choice but to walk on the roads.