Priority to the right

[niemeyjt]

My art teacher in the 70s had a Wartburg - along similar lines to a Trabant - two tanks in and a load of smoke and smell out.

[Bayleaf]

I counted the number of Pr. to the right on the way back from work this morning. A journey of less than 10kms, on rural double road with no markings. There were 7 Pttr on my side. So, in a test situation, you have to reduce speed to acknowledge each one, and be in a position to safely stop if a car came out. One of these Pttr I sometimes travel down, coming away from a client's house. It joins the bigger road, right after a blind corner. Just pull out of that one if you dare!

I'm curious to know why some of these junctions (it seems we have more than our fair share here) are still Pttr? Are those smaller roads older than the bigger roads they join?

Still bonkers though - it would be easier to at least make them "Cedez le passage" with a dotted line surely?!

Now I know why daughter used to come back from driving lessons with exclamations of "it's illogical"!

[exile]

Only in France?!!

As @niemeyjt has aleady pointed out also in Switzerland but also:
Belgium
Spain
Italy
Germany
Austria
Netherlands - where you also have to contend with absolute priority for cyclists no matter where they appear from
and Poland - where the sudden appearance of a horse drawn farmers cart on a high speed road meant that the taxi driver had to do a move that Hamilton would have been proud of.


What puzzles me in all of this, is that in a few spots around where we have the pad warning sign for a junction on the left. Quite why who knows.

[Bayleaf]

What puzzles me in all of this, is that in a few spots around where we have the pad warning sign for a junction on the left. Quite why who knows.

I think that's just to warn drivers that a vehicle may come out of that junction without stopping, if they're turning right ie towards you. Pad should be changed to PITA methinks!

[elsie]

I have never seen the blue sign.

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[Lori]

I have never seen the blue sign.

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Right O ! I would never drive in Paris. Just sitting on a park bench by that particular circle can keep one amused for days. It just never stops. There must be dozens of bang ups every day there.

And until recently, I would never have known the distance of security between the front of your vehicle and the back of the vehicle in front of you at an intersection, stop sign, slow down, etc.

[Hotrodder]

I'd venture to say no one else does. I can knock up a little design that will inject a dose of carb cleaner into the air intake duct while driving. It will cause a thick cloud of smoke to asphyiate the moron tailgating you.

[RobertArthur]

@ Lori, try the first two weeks of August, every self respecting Parisian is down south or in Normandy/Brittany. seasonal holidays. Not for the first time, strike actions, I went from the Nièvre, autoroute A77, Porte d'Italie to Gare du Nord, family members hoping to catch an international train. Almost empty boulevards, only the traffic lights sometimes red. Crossing the Seine at our right hand the Notre Dame in its former glory. Dangerous: tourists on their trottinettes électriques, unpredictable behaviour. From the boulevard périphérique we were in the rather empty car park under the station in a very short time.

[Lori]

I hear ya RobertArthur. I love Paris in August. Still, I won't ever drive there. Even in my younger years, I avoided driving there.

[DominicBest]

As we're on the subject, and so it doesn't clog up La Code thread; this is the sign I mentioned:
priority to the right.jpeg
I'm ashamed to say that until our daughter was learning La Code, a few years ago, we were unaware of the priority this sign indicated - just thinking there was a junction up ahead. Why would we?

Imagine how many road users in France today still don't know it's importance. Vehicles coming out of these (often very minor) side roads from the right can just pull straight out onto the bigger, faster road (if they dare!), and they're well within their rights. Woe betide if you don't stop in time and rear-shunt them. Your fault. If someone is behind you and rear-shunts you while you brake/slow right down for checking a side junction, their fault! I've seen people driving at 80kmh past these little side roads without a care in the world!

Only in France?!!

Aren’t you blaming France for your ignorance?