A couple of things about Portuguese drivers.
First, not all of the streets are super wide. In fact most streets in the smaller towns are annoyingly narrow.
Despite this, there is an unwritten rule that if you put your hazzard lights on, you can park anywhere for a few minutes. Visit gran, buy a coffee, pick up groceries. Only for emergencies, obviously.
The other one is an echo of something I wrote years ago. On one of our visits to Bangladesh, I commented the the solitary traffic light in Dhaka was treated as something of a novelty. Drivers had a laissez-faire approach to that solitary set of lights.
It’s the same here with pedestrian cross signals. To be fair, some crossings I happened upon had a painfully long timer. Regardless, don’t just assume that if the little green man says good to go, that a car isn’t going to try to squeeze between your belt buckle and your underpants.
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