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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.
Friday Video: Krakow is a Polish Pedestrian Paradise
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).

Photo of Gersh Kuntzman
Tabloid legend Gersh Kuntzman has been with New York newspapers since 1989, including stints at the New York Daily News, the Post, the Brooklyn Paper and even a cup of coffee with the Times. He's also the writer and producer of "Murder at the Food Coop," which was a hit at the NYC Fringe Festival in 2016, and “SUV: The Musical” in 2007. He also writes the Cycle of Rage column, which is archived here.

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