Answer: you don't.
Just had another near-death street-crossing experience. Don't worry, I'm fine. I don't even get frazzled anymore when a growling aggressively-Christian ex-American-school bus with blown out windows narrowly avoids pulverizing me. It's only the 836th time it's happened. With all that Managua has to deal with, it appears that concerns about proper road etiquette have fallen by the wayside. There are often massive distance between stop lights, so the only way to cross major streets is to dash halfway across the road, wait terrified for a pause in the traffic going in the opposite direction, and then dash the rest of the way. You don't even want to know the protocol for crossing at the rotunda intersections.
There is one pedestrian crossing signal near one particularly deadly intersection by the university. Obviously, it is non-functional. One of my favorite practical jokes when we walk that way is to ask a friend to push the button and laugh when they frown at the gaping hole where the button once was.
Just had another near-death street-crossing experience. Don't worry, I'm fine. I don't even get frazzled anymore when a growling aggressively-Christian ex-American-school bus with blown out windows narrowly avoids pulverizing me. It's only the 836th time it's happened. With all that Managua has to deal with, it appears that concerns about proper road etiquette have fallen by the wayside. There are often massive distance between stop lights, so the only way to cross major streets is to dash halfway across the road, wait terrified for a pause in the traffic going in the opposite direction, and then dash the rest of the way. You don't even want to know the protocol for crossing at the rotunda intersections.
There is one pedestrian crossing signal near one particularly deadly intersection by the university. Obviously, it is non-functional. One of my favorite practical jokes when we walk that way is to ask a friend to push the button and laugh when they frown at the gaping hole where the button once was.
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