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(Message started by: Octavian_P on Oct 10^th, 2006, 8:33pm)

Title: We live in Romania and that takes all our time
Post by Octavian_P on Oct 10^th, 2006, 8:33pm

A normal traffic day in the rush hours

PS: can you spot my scorp in there ;D

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/Octavian_P/image002.jpg

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/Octavian_P/image001.jpg

Title: Re: We live in Romania and that takes all our time
Post by allenjames on Oct 10^th, 2006, 9:43pm

LOL - those drive thru Mcdonalds really do increase local traffic !
;D

Title: Re: We live in Romania and that takes all our time
Post by Geoff_W on Oct 10^th, 2006, 9:44pm

:o Now that must be interesting, drove round the Arc de Triomphe once but that looks hairy.

Title: Re: We live in Romania and that takes all our time
Post by clarkster on Oct 10^th, 2006, 10:17pm

try driving in nairobi at night, lights are not a legal requirement, that was fun. Basra was even worse!

Title: Re: We live in Romania and that takes all our time
Post by jonnycab on Oct 11^th, 2006, 1:39am

Dear me.....even the Trams are stuck in traffic.........so crappy public transport isn't just exclusive to the UK ;D

Title: Re: We live in Romania and that takes all our time
Post by Spannerdemon on Oct 11^th, 2006, 4:37am

Think that's bad......you want to try Istanbul!! ::)

Title: Re: We live in Romania and that takes all our time
Post by r33per on Oct 11^th, 2006, 8:13am

It's like a car version of Where's Wally?...

Title: Re: We live in Romania and that takes all our time
Post by mr._floppy on Oct 11^th, 2006, 9:46am

Erm, don't traffic lights exist in Romania ?

That's one you'll need to get before we allow you lot in to the EU !!!! :'(

( got to keep standards up you know )

Title: Re: We live in Romania and that takes all our time
Post by Octavian_P on Oct 11^th, 2006, 11:00am

mr floppy if you look verry verry hard at the picture you will see the trafic lights, but who cares about them, when this things happen all the time @ and to make matters worse this happens because of the "good knowledge" of the "best" drivers like taxi drivers and bmw drivers (the worse in this country)....they always ignore trafic rules. You can see the yellow taxies are the most ones in exactly the middle of the junction @, they always pass you by on the other side of the road, as you se on the and over the tram lines >:(. And now about the police, anyone of you can spot a policeman to help ??? ...nope...all of them are on free roads preparing the radar gun, and giving parking tickets :-X

Title: Re: We live in Romania and that takes all our time
Post by cossie_al on Oct 11^th, 2006, 11:48am

If I had to tackle that everyday I think I would be swapping the scorp for a tank os something similar :o

Title: Re: We live in Romania and that takes all our time
Post by Kjetil S on Oct 11^th, 2006, 11:50am

Arctic Trucks version of a Ford Excursion or similar? ;D

Edit:

Like this (http://www.arctictrucks.no/lisalib/getfile.aspx?itemid=1551)? ;D

Found a comparison shot (http://www.arctictrucks.no/lisalib/getfile.aspx?itemid=1553) with the original next to it.

Title: Re: We live in Romania and that takes all our time
Post by taliban on Oct 11^th, 2006, 12:06pm

think i can see a black scorp estate, bottom right hand corner....

Title: Re: We live in Romania and that takes all our time
Post by julie_quaife on Oct 11^th, 2006, 12:22pm

Bloody hell! just like r33per the thoughts of 'where's wally' sprang to mind. Are you sure this wasn't caused by a scorp breaking down?

Title: Re: We live in Romania and that takes all our time
Post by julie_quaife on Oct 11^th, 2006, 12:25pm

Just another thought, I've never been to Romania before but if this is a town road, how big are your motorways? these pictures put the M25 to shame!!

Title: Re: We live in Romania and that takes all our time
Post by Octavian_P on Oct 11^th, 2006, 6:59pm

This is just one of the main streets from the capital city Bucharest. Instead we only have two motorways, A1 and A2. A1 is usualy called the road of death, because it's always in construction and getting repairs over different sectors so it's a real hell sometimes and a lot of accidents / jams on it. The A2 is "new" build jut a few years ago and it is in pretty good condition.

PS on A1 it was the first time that my scorp saw an excess speed of over 125 mph ;D

Title: Re: We live in Romania and that takes all our time
Post by Octavian_P on Oct 29^th, 2006, 8:04am

Heres another one ;D

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/Octavian_P/dfa7.jpg

sorry about the quality :)

Title: Re: We live in Romania and that takes all our time
Post by Spannerdemon on Oct 29^th, 2006, 6:50pm

Quote:

Erm, don't traffic lights exist in Romania ?

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Believe me, once you get across the Channel, traffic lights (as we know them in Britain), cease to have the same importance to local traffic!!! And that's putting it VERY politely!

I've driven in most European countries, and the further away from GB you get, the more horrific it becomes.

Putting it at its most simple. nobody gives a toss about traffic lights in some of these sort of traffic jams. They don't have cameras all over the place like us, so the law is totally and routinely ignored wherever possible. The police just use whistles and jump up and down in animated fury, but I've never, ever seen anyone booked, even though the police are standing by the lights.

Worst places I've driven in are Paris, where a car shot past us at a junction, straight into another vehicle (across a red light), the two drivers jumped out, swore and gesticulated wildly, as only the excitable French can do, at each other, and then drove off!!

Heraklion on the island of Crete whilst on holiday, (thanks to my wife for 'navigating' me straight into the very thick of the City centre. An experience that I still have violent nightmares about), and Istanbul where they have numerous policemen at the junctions who literally take their lives into their hands, jumping in front of cars to get them to stop moving at red lights. You've got to see it to believe it.

Scary.....Yes you bet it is!! :o

Title: Re: We live in Romania and that takes all our time
Post by aTo on Oct 29^th, 2006, 9:23pm

Somebody said Turkey??? Hey I made 30000km almost in 10 months So I know my traffic very well... and once I got fined because I drove my car around 110km/h where it was supposed to be 55... But mainly nobody cares about traffic issue. There are some camera systems but it is not situated in everywhere.

A story; I was driving at countryside motorway(TEM) in at 1 am and I made 2-3 km in 30 minutes because there was a road maintenance.

I remembered that I made 45 km in 3 hours and there was no special thing such as road maintenance or accidents...

the thing is there is no hairy style traffic in turkey unlike those in romania because people usually do obey traffic lights(crossing the at the red is a very few issue)

But the most stupid thing must be going bumper to bumper( a Turkish term which means there are few cm between cars) around 100 km/h in a snowy night.

Title: Re: We live in Romania and that takes all our time
Post by Octavian_P on Oct 30^th, 2006, 7:27pm

We realy do have traffic lights, and in general we obey them, but a few jerks in one busy morning can wrek chaos to all traffic in a junction :P. I think we are the only country that have "comunitary police" meaning a car hat parols at 20-30 km/h and keep all traffic at iddleing speed >:(. We also got a main road / not highway full of speed cameras, and all the main roads have police crews with radars. Belive me they are verry good at giveing you a ticket but not making the traffic go well :-/

Title: Re: We live in Romania and that takes all our time
Post by dh_dove on Oct 31^st, 2006, 5:40pm

And now about the police, anyone of you can spot a policeman to help ??? ...nope...all of them are on free roads preparing the radar gun, and giving parking tickets :-X[/quote]
Just like the UK then........... ;)
DH Dove