Round here in Britanny, priorité à droit seems to be being re-introduced in towns where earlier there were traffic lights or road markings. I think that this was done to slow down the traffic. It seems to be much commoner in towns than in open country. High visibility clothing is only required in poor light conditions or in darkness.
In general road surfaces are excellent, much better than the UK, but often abysmal in towns. I think money for roads comes out of the local budget rather than that for the départment, but in any case roads in towns seem much worse. To some extent I think that this is deliberate. Pont l'Abbe has dreadful road surfaces and a lot of the priorities have been changed. It seems that this is done to reduce traffic speeds in town.