{"id":22353,"date":"2008-05-12T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/05\/12\/in-lisbon-walkdont-walk-signs-are-mostly-decorative\/"},"modified":"2008-05-12T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T10:00:01","slug":"in-lisbon-walkdont-walk-signs-are-mostly-decorative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080512-01\/?p=22353","title":{"rendered":"In Lisbon, walk\/don't walk signs are mostly decorative"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Lisbon, walk\/don’t walk signs are mostly decorative. The real rule for crossing the street is look both ways and cross when safe<\/i>. There’s no requirement that you use a designated crosswalk. As long as the coast is clear, you can cross the street anywhere. When my host for the conference<\/a> accompanied me to the conference center, we crossed the street and my host pointed out, “You know, we’re actually using the official crosswalk this time.”\n I was talking with one of the faculty members of the computer science department at IST<\/a> and mentioned that in Seattle, the police issue tickets for crossing the street incorrectly<\/a>. The faculty member responded, “In Portugal, there is no such thing as crossing the street incorrectly.”<\/p>\n

(For what it’s worth, people in Madrid restrict themselves to crossing at crosswalks and generally observe the walk\/don’t walk signs, although if the light says don’t walk<\/i> and there are no cars anywhere nearby, they will cross anyway. This evaluation of Madrid crosswalk behavior is probably skewed by the higher concentration of tourists.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Lisbon, walk\/don’t walk signs are mostly decorative. The real rule for crossing the street is look both ways and cross when safe. There’s no requirement that you use a designated crosswalk. As long as the coast is clear, you can cross the street anywhere. When my host for the conference accompanied me to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-22353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

In Lisbon, walk\/don’t walk signs are mostly decorative. The real rule for crossing the street is look both ways and cross when safe. There’s no requirement that you use a designated crosswalk. As long as the coast is clear, you can cross the street anywhere. When my host for the conference accompanied me to the […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}