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Friday Video: Krakow is a Polish Pedestrian Paradise

Check out how car drivers simply stop for pedestrians — and not just pedestrians in a crosswalk, but also pedestrians about to enter a crosswalk or even just thinking about maybe entering a crosswalk.

Krakow is a pedestrian paradise, we found.

|Photo: Gersh Kuntzman

In addition to biking through Berlin, Streetsblog's Gersh Kuntzman visited another European center — Krakow, Poland — where he encountered a rare (even for Europe) pedestrian paradise.

Check out how car drivers simply stop for pedestrians — and not just pedestrians in a crosswalk, but also pedestrians about to enter a crosswalk or even just thinking about maybe entering a crosswalk.

It's all here in his spell-binding video, featuring the music of Polish folk star, UKUSTYCZNIE (check her out on Instagram here).

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