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Old 07-28-2010, 07:25 PM   #12 (permalink)
Laurentiu
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he-he, it's not so hard, it took me about 10-20 minutes to get over the initial "shock" and 1-2 weeks to start doing things instinctively rather than by thinking when I started driving here in CY. And please, don't say bad things about traffic in England...In my personal opinion from what I've seen the UK is second only to Germany in road behaviorism. And yes they seem to be very passionate about roundabouts but not as much as the French where half of the world's roundabouts are located , about 30.000 of them, can't even fathom that.Haven't been to France yet though to experience all that twirling around

The best part to me is the safety, can't beat that...again a link to IIHS Click Here
....40% fewer vehicle collisions, 80% fewer injuries and 90% fewer serious injuries and fatalities (according to a study [15] of a sampling of roundabouts in the United States, when compared with the junctions they replaced
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Originally Posted by alvaro84 View Post
Man, those crazy English drive on the wrong side of the road to begin with
Theoretically speaking, left-hand traffic/driving does have a few advantages but not enough to say it's better...it's just different..
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