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Re: subway info?
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Fri, 2 Mar 2001 20:11:09 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Frank Filz writes:
> Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> > In lugnet.trains, Eric Joslin writes:
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> > > That intersection isn't *that* bad. You just have to learn how to drive in
> > > Boston, that's all. We're all really good drivers here- perhaps you're
> > > just not up to scratch.
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> Having learned to drive in Lexington, I've got some good Boston driving
> skills. I used to study "The Boston Driver's Handbook" for ideas :-)
> (well, not really, but I did actually once perform one of the advanced
> maneuvers - said maneuver being the "shielded left turn" where you turn
> left at the same time as the car in front of you, using him as a shield
> in case oncoming traffic doesn't slow down enough, and the advanced part
> being not only do you use them as a shield, but you also gun the gas and
> get ahead of them - I once got stuck behind an old lady who was taking
> too long to make a left, when she finally started to move, I moved
> faster :-)
You only did that once? Wimp :-)
Besides there is a reason we drive like we do here. If you didn't drive that
way you would never get anywhere. Many turns in the city are blind and in the
suburbs there is so much traffic that if you don't block a lane or 2 of traffic
when making left turns you can litterally sit for hours durring rush hour.
Actually there is a good statistic. Massachusetts drivers rank #1 with the
fewest deaths per 100 miles driven of all the 50 states. It seems
contradictory until you realize that 1. usually traffic is bad enough that you
can't go fast enough to hurt yourself if you are in an accident and 2. we have
more Hospitals per-capita than just about anywhere else in the world never mind
the U.S. so they can patch us up quick and get us back out on the roads.
Eric Kingsley
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| I'm so glad I live here in Northern California where driving is of two types: 1) Parked on US 101. 2) Racing madly through San Francisco, down 1 way streets (usually the worng way) searching for the last parking spot in the city. Never mind the (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Oh, I've probably done it a few more times, but you have to realize that the vast bulk of my driving experience these days is not in Boston... (...) I always point out to non-Boston drivers that Boston driving shouldn't be characterized as (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: subway info?
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| (...) Having learned to drive in Lexington, I've got some good Boston driving skills. I used to study "The Boston Driver's Handbook" for ideas :-) (well, not really, but I did actually once perform one of the advanced maneuvers - said maneuver being (...) (24 years ago, 2-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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