I think its an urban thing......
I lived in the (over-populated and over-rated) southeast of England a while
back and had to use the M25 ring-road motorway to get home and back from
work. It was seriously dog-eat-dog down there, with 10-15 mile tailbacks
and1-hr 30 to do a 28 mile journey on that motorway. Traffic aggression was
the norm, chopping from lane-to-lane to get best forward motion. Back up
north in Manchester 1 or 2 miles is a jam and folks are a lot more laid-back
in traffic.
Bliss!!
Phil
110 V8 SW
(now with added JATE rings for that great recovery flavour!!)
-----Original Message-----
From: Vel & Maryanne Natarajan <velnma@home.com>
To: lro@Works.Team.Net <lro@Works.Team.Net>
Date: 15 April 2001 07:04
Subject: RE: LRO: People's Republic....
>
>Because Americans strive to be "#1", and that if means racing forward 10
>feet, and then having to hit your brakes to keep #2 from getting in front
of
>you and making you get to your destination .25 seconds later, then so be
it.
>
>That said, I always use my signal when I intend to change lanes, and I find
>that more often than not, people (even here in Chicago) tend to let me in.
>I'd say it happens less than 25% of the time where someone speeds up to
keep
>me from merging or changing lanes. Then again, I've never driven in
>California or Boston where I hear drivers are pretty uptight and "intense".
>
>Vel Natarajan
>'65 SWB SW
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-lro@works.team.net [mailto:owner-lro@works.team.net]On
>Behalf Of Frank Elson
>
>Are you lot saying that if you indicate that you want to do something on
>the road, pull over, turn right or left, move into another lane, someone
>will stop you doing it? why?
>
>Frank
>
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