I liked the Barcelona style. Dead downtown, middle of the afternoon, you
notice that curiously the stop lines are about 50 feet back from the corner.
When the light on the cross street turns yellow, everybody stands on it and
accelerates full throttle... and any stragglers going through on the
"orange" will be erased by a solid wall of SEATs, Citroens, and lorries...
on 2/28/01 6:24 PM, David Lieb at dbl@vniles.com wrote:
> I don't know what you guys are talking about. I have put on over 400,000
> miles on Chicagoland streets and expressways over the past 15 years or so
> and I have to say that I am quite comfortable with driving my MGs here.
> Every metropolitan area has its own "style". Once you understand the style,
> everything is more or less predictable. In Chicagoland, fr'instance, one of
> the rules of thumb is that no matter how far you stretch the orange light,
> someone else will come through behind you. Knowing that, you can avoid
> getting rear-ended at intersections by going on through. Conversely, people
> here are pretty good about being sure the intersection is clear before
> launching their death missile at the green light. Other places work the
> other way around and any stretching of orange lights will get you plastered
> by the fool who launches the instant he thinks it is about to go green.
> Personally I prefer this arrangement over the drivers in Wisconsin rural
> areas who pull up to a 2-way stop sign, wait until you are about four
> carlengths away (with the right-of-way in your favour, of course) and then
> pull out right in front of you.
> David Lieb
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