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Domnic Fernandes continues (Part II) his reminiscence of
Mapusa of the 1950s
http://www.goanet.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=426
------------------------------------------------------------------On 07/04/06, Elisabeth Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear FN,
When I first came to the US, I witnessed something
that to me was simply amazing at the time. At one of
the four way junctions, the traffic (signal)lights had
stopped working. In the US, at rush hour if something
like this happens, the traffic queues, snake on
forever. I expected absolute chaos. To my amazement
there was none. It was so perfectly streamlined.
Everyone knew what to do. Give way, one car one
junction way at a time. No one tried to break this
tacit agreement.
RESPONSE: I am not sure whether the junction rule that applies in Canada is the same in the U.S.A. Where there are no lights, one comes to a full stop and then it is give way in order of priority. So first come first to exit.
In the U.K. the system here is to give way to traffic coming from the right ( we drive on the left of the road) At round abouts too, we give way to traffic on the right - traffic already on the round about, therefore has priority.
In Goa ( India ) it seems that traffic already on the round about has to give way to traffic coming straight forward! What a chaotic situation!
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DEV BOREM KORUM.
Gabe Menezes.
London, England
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