Pshaw! In Rome, anyone can ignore traffic signals!
Paris was good to bike in if you do it like you're supposed to. Velib and ten-speeds and hybrids are everywhere. The drivers are used to it and accomodating. There are manners to the traffic, and scorn for those who violate them. My wife, with her suburb sensibility, would ride back up the street on the sidewalk, and got a lot of dirty looks for it.
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Genesis 49:16-17