The Parisian ones are champions of incivility at the wheel

They are said stressed, impatient, grousers, aggressive The Parisian motorists trail a bad reputation. And it randomly does not owe anything or with the stereotypes anti-Parisians if one believes of it the investigation which has just been realized by the weekly magazine Car more. The magazine established a classification of ten big cities of France* according to the courtesy of the motorists who traverse them.

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Without much surprise, Paris arrives good last and holds the not very flattering title of capital of incivility at the wheel.

The test, carried out under similar conditions in the ten cities with the testing ground, related to six criteria: the pedestrian respect of the priorities; the number of awkward parkings (in double file, in the protected corridors, on the crossings for pedestrians); the patience of the motorists when fire passes to the green; facility to change file; the respect of red lights and the use of the indicator to each change of management (as the Highway code imposes it besides).

The blow of horn to green light arrives at the end of 4,9 seconds

In all these categories, or almost, the Parisian motorists obtain less the high note, behind Nice and Marseilles. Special mention for the category crossings of red light, which appears particularly high in the capital. The ongoing activity of the radar red light of the quay of Gesvres in IVe (the only one in function for the moment in Paris) attests some. In 2011, it flashé on average 97 times per day, that is to say an infringement all the fifteen minutes. In spite of the effect usually, the radar continues to start more than 60 times per day since the beginning of the year.

Other through Parisian: patience with fire often close to the zero. Stopwatch in hand, the investigators of Car more noted that the motorist who does not start rather quickly with the green is entitled to a blow of horn ragor at the end of 4,9 seconds in Paris (against more than 10 seconds in Lille, city where the motorists are supposed to be more cool).

Yesterday, on the boulevard of Magenta (Xe), bottled even in holiday period, a few minutes of observation of circulation were enough to confirm the bad mark of the Parisian motorists. A concert of horns, motorists precipitating in the middle of the crossroads without being able to leave there, of the constrained pedestrians of slalomer between the cars with the stop on the crossing for pedestrians, a motorcyclist zigzaging between the vehicles with an explicit gesture of the hand for that which had not deviated The hand inserted on its horn, a deliveryman justified his aggressiveness at the wheel by the law of the jungle. If you are courteous and sympathetic, if you leashes to pass the others you make balance. For Paris, it is necessary to be essential!

* The practices of control in the examined cities were noted on 20: Lille obtains 17,4 front Toulouse and Bordeaux (16), Clermont-Ferrand (15,1), Strasbourg (14,3), Nantes (14,1), Lyon (12,5), Nice (8,4), Marseilles (7,4) and Paris (6,1).