On Feb 5, 8:44*pm, Ross-a-travelling wrote:

[...] They don't cross on a red pedestrian light, ]
They don't?!
Not to the extent that people do in the UK, [...]

That's surely rather different to the categoric "they don't", though?

True. I would however go so far as to say that most don't.

(Currently in Romania, where crossing one road at junctions involves
crossing one side of it then waiting for the lights to go through
almost a full cycle with you stuck in the small central reservation
before they finally change to let you finish crossing. Crossing more
than one road legally takes an eternity. No wonder everyone treats the
pedestrian lights as guidance...)

Interesting... will be going there myself (and then on to Moldova via
the overnight train) at the end of Feb...

Neil