What crosswalk?
August 04, 2006
Driving in general in Osaka is a bitch. The city is not very big but it houses 5 million people and at last count 500 billion vehicles. As police have bigger things to deal with, like stopping people from jumping into the Dotombori and evicting homeless people from parks, traffic violations seem to be at the bottom of the list. Here is a fairly typical sight I see in the morning when I go to work. This truck makes regular stops in my neighborhood. And yes, it is parked, with its left wheels on the sidewalk.
