> It's funny you describe the differences. Over New Year's I took a
> trip to Italy and France that involved a lot of expressway driving,
> and I marvelled at how civilized it all was. There were the standard
> expectations (slow drives right) and they were followed. I don't
> think there was any particular appeal to chaos, but it just went
> smoothly, somewhat to my surprise.
Yeah, expressways are pretty much the same the world over, modulo the local motorist asshole quotient (very high in most of the US). Expressways are car-centric by nature and designed to move lots of 'em at high speed.
What I was thinking of was city streets, particularly in smaller towns.
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