IT was an interesting social experiment on Monday afternoon when some of the traffic lights were out for a while.
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Trying to get out of side streets at intersections was an exercise in courage and assertiveness.
Mostly, drivers seemed confused and timid, but having been in this situation in Perth, I was comfortable with letting other drivers know what I wanted to do, and then just moving out.
Mostly, people got it and stopped and allowed side streets to move, but at the intersection with Worrigee Street and the Princes Highway, just as the poor buggers got up the courage to move out, an idiot in a white Commodore station wagon ploughed right through the cars venturing out onto the highway, almost causing a serious collision, and simply blaring his horn aggressively so that everyone froze while he sped through the intersection.
When the traffic lights don’t work, people, we need to work together. It’s not hard.
The good people of Perth managed it one morning all along the Albany Highway, stopping to let the side streets out once the cars built up. Try a bit harder, Nowra.
A. Hing,
Woollamia.