it's changed for the worse then since I drove up from LA to Oregon when I
worked in the States - mind you, that was in 1972...
Best Cheers
Frank
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----- Original Message -----
From: Hope Peter <hope_peter@bah.com>
To: <lro@Works.Team.Net>
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 6:09 AM
Subject: Re: LRO: People's Republic....
>
> > >Am I getting this correctly?
> > > 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?
> >
> > They are pulling your leg Frank.
> >
> > Actually though, in my part of California a lot of people are using
their
> > turn signals.
>
> I don 't think they are pulling anyones leg. That is exactly what
happens.
> If you put on the signal so you can move over to the exit, people in that
> lane speed up so you can't get over. SWMBO is from LA County and told me
> before we went there on vacation, warned me about the drivers. In the
past
> couple years I have spent a number of times in LA and San Diego and it is
> just as has been described here. After the first trip I have learned that
I
> need to rent a big fast vehicle just to survive. The 5 between LA and SD
> and the Santa Monica Frwy have been the worse. I saw similar agression in
> San Fransisco, San Jose and Pleasanton. Not so bad in Sacremento or Santa
> Barbara, and I have always found the drive from Malibu to Ventura to be
fun.
> Pete
>
>
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