Useful information about Batumi and Georgia
Note to car owners
The manner of driving a car in Batumi, as throughout Georgia, has its own characteristics. The traffic rules are observed by a fairly small number of both drivers and pedestrians. Both of them create great inconveniences for each other. This is shocking and outrage most often among visitors from abroad.
Pedestrians: it should not be considered that only drivers of vehicles who do not stop in front of a pedestrian crossing violate the rules. Pedestrians do not remain on the road crossing the streets in the wrong places, where they feel like it, for example, 10-15 meters from the pedestrian crossing or before a dead corner when the driver does not see what he is waiting for around the corner due to the wall of the building. Traffic lights are also not a sign for pedestrians. They may pass in front of the car at a red light. And there are also cases when a pedestrian is standing on the street, they are inferior to him, but he does not cross for reasons that are clear only to him.
Drivers are well aware of their counterparts, and since the full responsibility for the accident lies with them, they do not follow the rules, but according to the circumstances. Silently give way to the pedestrian crossing, if the pedestrian shows that he intends to cross the street, more often they stop and show the pedestrian that they will wait until he crosses the roadway.