I first learned to drive in Boston, having to deal with rush hour traffic going through Harvard Square. This intersection below reminds me of that chaos just on a smaller scale. The first picture is as I'm walking to class at FCH and then the second picture is coming back from FCH. This is where I saw an accident last week. I know it doesn't seem difficult in this pics, but there are six different traffic patterns that happens here. It's kind of like when you put together those little race tracks that have those multi-line connectors so you can make figure 8 tracks.
One of the first things I noticed when I moved here was how noisy the traffic is. You expect traffic noise a big city. Everyone talks about how much American's drive and Europeans walk everywhere and Cheltenham is a small condensed town so you don't really think there will be much driving. But there is. And it's really noisy. Maybe it's that the little toy cars here are noisier than American cars? or maybe it's on big streets where there is consistent traffic there is a dull hum and you don't notice a car zipping around the corner?
These are photo's of the small little cars here. Even "big" cars like Audi and Mercedes and other luxury cars are very small. I wish I could have gotten a photo of me standing next to the Jeep in the photo on the left. It's like a little toy jeep. And you can see that most parking is done on lots in front of houses. The pic on the right is a row of small cars.
As for traffic on the sidewalk and the grocery store? I still haven't figured it out. Stairs and escalators follow the same driving pattern of walking/driving on the left, instead of the right, but the grocery store seems to be a free-for-all.
2 comments:
I love how they park in both directions on the same side of the street. I wonder if anyone who comes to visit America does the same thing figuring it's legal here too!
Ha Ha Ha...I didn't even think about that since people do it in Boston too. :)
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