Conehead
11-11-2004, 03:03 PM
David Z <dave@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:36_jd.30014$K7.19327@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> "John McKenzie" <jmac@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
> news:41318AF0.7F45@alphalink.com.au...
> > David Z wrote:
> >>
> >> > Sorry David but I don't drive a 4x4.
> >>
> >> Good, then you're more likely to be killed if hit by one.
> >
> > maybe by someone passing a tram on the wrong side :)
>
> In retrospect that may have been a not too smart thing to do, but tram
> drivers do equally, if not more, stupid things. For example, today I was
> sitting at an intersection waiting to turn right, and about 1 second
before
> the lights turned red (and at which point I would have turned), this
> super-long new white tram on the opposite side of the road decided to
> proceed through the
> intersection, which left me stranded in the middle for a great deal of
time
> after the light had turned red. The traffic going the other way had
already
> started, in fact. So I basically had to try to turn into moving traffic!
> Crazy.
>
>
It's worse when trams do a U-turn in front of your 4X4.
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Conehead
news:36_jd.30014$K7.19327@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> "John McKenzie" <jmac@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
> news:41318AF0.7F45@alphalink.com.au...
> > David Z wrote:
> >>
> >> > Sorry David but I don't drive a 4x4.
> >>
> >> Good, then you're more likely to be killed if hit by one.
> >
> > maybe by someone passing a tram on the wrong side :)
>
> In retrospect that may have been a not too smart thing to do, but tram
> drivers do equally, if not more, stupid things. For example, today I was
> sitting at an intersection waiting to turn right, and about 1 second
before
> the lights turned red (and at which point I would have turned), this
> super-long new white tram on the opposite side of the road decided to
> proceed through the
> intersection, which left me stranded in the middle for a great deal of
time
> after the light had turned red. The traffic going the other way had
already
> started, in fact. So I basically had to try to turn into moving traffic!
> Crazy.
>
>
It's worse when trams do a U-turn in front of your 4X4.
--
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