This beauty just down road from there;
Reminds me of playing Sim City! I need a crossing, just draw one in here, need another one, just draw it next to the first! 差不多
Would make little difference. Sidewalks also make vertical signalling more visible by separating them from the buildings. Put a vertical sign next to that horrible buildings covered with all sort of stuff (shop cartels, cables, etc.) and it would just add to the mess. Even a luminous one would go unnoticed.
Interesting. I don’t ride or drive in Taiwan. As a passenger I always notice stop signs but my driver or rider never does. This would explain why.
When it comes to visual clutter, Taiwan takes the cake. People are just inured to not seeing anything. That could explain the windsecreen tint … Plus, being perceptive can be quite taxing, many would rather retreat into themselves. The saying ‘ni xiang tai duo’ comes to mind … its a coping mechanism.
Japanese living in Taiwan with her Taiwanese husband and 2 sons drew a short comic to share her experience of Taiwan’s pedestrian hell on Instagram and has been shared on another Japanese website.
Google translated:
Kinjo A (@aa_kinjo), who lives in Taiwan. She made a cartoon about her daily life with her Taiwanese husband, her eldest son Onrai, and her second son Suika, and posted it on Instagram.
Taiwan is known as “pedestrian hell” because of its bad traffic manners. But there seems to have been a slight change…?
Accidents resulting in injury or death occur frequently in Taiwan, where traffic manners for cars and motorcycles are bad. Mr. A Kinjo lamented, “I won’t yield, I won’t stop, I won’t slow down.”
Even when Ms. A. Kinjou walks with her child, she encounters danger, so she is amazed and wonders, “Where have all those kind Taiwanese gone?” However, fines were imposed on violators, and for the first time in 12 years in Taiwan, I saw a car giving way to pedestrians!
Mr. A Kinjo earnestly hopes that the crackdown will be an opportunity to “put an end to pedestrian hell!” I hope that the number of accidents will decrease even a little.
Not exactly a pedestrian, but what was that hand gesture and the obsession with trying to remove the bike from behind his precious BMW?
Police station is like 20 m away from this spot.
It looks like the cyclist was going towards the cycle path. She probably should have done the left turn from the scooter box, a bit safer I think.
shows people do not care from the video. The car driver (not care about girl, just get the bike off his car), the person walking across the street like it’s normal and the other car and scooter drivers not helping. Until people not being so selfish help little will change there (seems up north). I do see poeple stoping here in Kao City when you cross the road at least.
To her credit, she actually put her phone away into her jacket pocket before she started riding across the street. Countless times (but not here) I’ve seen folks holding their precious phones in hand while riding, looking at their phones while riding . . .
Guy
No excuses for that guy. It’s day time, views are clear, he is totally at fault as he ran right into her.
Personally speaking, when he was crouched over trying to get the youbike out from under his hulking BMW, I would have been sorely tempted to kick him in the &ss. 
Guy
Nope. Driver that rear ended the other person is 100% at fault. Even with the road the way it is the drive was simply not paying attention.
I’m also not really looking for the red octagon stop signs, there are so few of them and far more of the signs painted on the road
My point is that if governments and agencies could be hold accountable for their shitty designs increasing the chance of crashes, maybe Taiwan could have better cities.
More drunk driving. A pharmacist blew 1.38, more than 9 times over the limit.
A guy on a scooter ignores police officer. When the police officer finally gets him to stop it’s obvious he’s drunk. Guy blows 0.39, ~2.5 times over the limit. His 3rd time caught drunk driving.
Utterly insane, and frighteningly dangerous, incompetence.
I imagine the consequences (if any) will total around the price of a government voucher: NT$6000.
It seems life here is cheap. 
Guy
Related to this, how do we make drivers yield to drivers who yield to pedestrians? Saw an asshole go ballistic on his horn at some woman in front of him who stopped at the crossing. And then he drove around her almost nailing some kid.
As if driving onto the sidewalk would have been completely normal if the pole wasn’t there.