I love riding in the front top of double decker buses - I'm just a total kid that way. Here, through a heavily spotted bus window (accented the low early sun) we have morning rush hour on one of the strangest roundabout thingies I've ever seen in the UK. It's a big ovoid creature contain several (five?) mini-roundabouts at each place a road intersects the beast. We drove around parts of this lots when we were first here, and while I got better at it, I was never good (or comfortable) here. Crazy.
Actually, a lot of this backup is probably
because of the regular flow of pedestrians
and cyclists across an outgoing branch to the
right of this photo. This is the
"standard" route from town out to
the University (I come back this way on foot
in the evening). The traffic's heavy enough
that you usually need to push the little
button to get a light at the crosswalk, and
the resulting red light for the cars lasts
long enough to back things up into the
roundabout like this.
MRT: Yeah, I don't miss the driving
either. Going without a car for a year is a
really wonderful experience. It helps
reinforce both how much I really don't like
them, but also how it is possible (at least in some parts of the
world) to survive without one.
TiaGD: Not the very back for me - makes me
car sick. My bus in is almost always a
double decker, and there's typically been
nary a soul upstairs but me. The University
term starts Real Soon Now, though, so I
expect quite a few more passengers on this
route, and probably competition for this
choice seat :-).
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cars SUCK
i'm finally living a real city where i
don't have to have one. i LOVE not having a
car!!!! they are evil biotches that rule us
Posted 22 months ago.
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We drove through it several times a day
during our first two weeks here, and it was a
killer, especially for an American who hadn't
spend a lot of time with roundabouts in two
years. I, too, prefer the bus or walking
:-).
Posted 22 months ago.
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There were always two I was afraid of. One
had a big roundabout with six satellite
mini-roundabouts. So you could drive the
wrong way around the big roundabout! The
other was the same but there was no big
roundabout in the middle :-/
I think they were Swindon and Hemel Hempstead
respectively..
PS I bet you don't get your choice of seat
now! all the UEA buses in Norwich are
packed!)
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Actually, I'm still getting my favorite seat.
I'm going in early enough, and get on the
bus far enough out that there aren't a lot of
university students on it yet. By the time
we get to the U I definitely have company up
top, but it's hardly crowded.
Posted 22 months ago.
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kool_skatkat says:
many cars, little space.
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