My Journal: Pedestrian's right of ways in Australia

The button for the pedestrians when they wanna cross the road
給行人過馬路用的按鈕

Many Taiwanese are used to give way to scooters or cars, even though they are ready to cross the road through the zebra crossing. Taiwan is a very crowded country and the development of the public transportation system gets much behind the developed countries people here extremely rely on the cars and scooters. So vehicles have most right of ways.
很多台灣人都有禮讓汽、機車的習慣，即使已經準備穿越斑馬線。台灣地狹人稠，再加上大眾捷運和先進國家比相對落後，民眾非常的依賴汽、機車的使用。因此行人的路權一直無法抬頭。

Bike route
腳踏車專用道

After coming back from Australia, I found most of their major cities have well-developed public transportation system with sparse population, you even can see the bike routes in the Central Business District. The drivers will slow down and give way to the pedestrians who are far away at a pedestrian crossing. Otherwise they would get fined. Conversely, the drivers in Australia would feel weird the pedestrians give way to the them. Do they have much more self-discipline compared to us? Maybe. But the rules introduced by the government have strong influence on this.
走了一趟澳洲發現，當地地廣人稀，大眾捷運發達，甚至在市區都能見到自行車的專用道。穿越班馬線，汽車大老遠時就已經準備減速禮讓行人，不然可是會被罰款呢！台灣人習慣於禮人汽車反而會讓駕駛人感到奇怪。是他們的民眾比較有素養嗎？或許吧？但政府制定的法規絕對有非常大的影響力。

Let's see part of the Australian Road Rules with 350 pages:
來看看澳洲所訂的人行穿越的交通規則的其中一段（共三百五十頁）：

81—Giving way at a pedestrian crossing
(1) A driver approaching a pedestrian crossing must drive at a speed at which the driver
can, if necessary, stop safely before the crossing. Offence provision.
(2) A driver must give way to any pedestrian on a pedestrian crossing. Offence provision.