David HoAnything that makes a city a worse place to drive makes it a better place to live… 👀
ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘@davidho Hmm. So nobody remembers traffic jams?
Claude@anne_twain most traffic jams are created by people not respecting security distances between vehicles and being selfish instead of demonstrating a basic sense of courtesy on the road. And bad public transport. @davidho
@switch No they're not.
@anne_twain that's what my driving teacher told me years ago so I believed them. Maybe she was wrong. I live in France though. Cities are notably smaller than what counts as even a middlesized one in the USA. And apart from Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux and a few other big towns, we don't have many huge multiple lanes roads.
@switch I guess English is not your first language, then? I'm wondering if your driving teacher said that lack of driver courtesy and driving too close is the cause of traffic *accidents*? A "traffic jam" happens when there's too much traffic on the roads and traffic slows and even stops. What's that called in French?
In America they call it "gridlock", but in Australian English it's a traffic jam.
@anne_twain she was talking about traffic jams in cities. Of course accidents cause traffic jams too.