"Documentary Features" ... Like as in being featured in a documentary about something? Or does she mean something else? The larger discussion aside, of all the things she lists, surely that one isn't even remotely "common".
Always a nice change of pace seeing terrible politicians from outside the US. Terrible for our outlook as a species, but a nice change of scenery none the less.
It's probably incremental but, IMO, a crosswalk does imply a certain amount of pedestrian traffic that might encourage a smidge of extra attention and double checking from some drivers, vs a location that gives the appearance of having very infrequent pedestrian crossingsmay be far less frequent. That not to say that complacency is any kind of excuse. But it is how people are on average.
Pretty starkly different light between the two shots, and seasonal tone differences.