Sandy, I've never driven in the middle east, but have to agree that China is crazy. No rules, just the wild west (good write-up you attached). McDonald's folks never drove in China, too much liability if you injured anyone. We hire drivers or let the chinese nationals drive. And the ride was outrageous! Regards, Bob S.
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Sandy Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Joseph McAllister <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am very pleased to see that others are taking the heat that used to be >> born by the sainted drivers of Boston, Mass. >> >> [SNIP] >> >> Now that's a Boston driver, circa 1958! > > Great story. > > A description of Chinese driving: > http://wikitravel.org/en/Driving_in_China#Dangers > > The Middle East is even worse. Anyone who thinks Boston, > Paris or Rome traffic is crazy has not seen these. > > In a discussion among a dozen or so well-travelled folk > some years back, all agreed that Saudi Arabia was > pretty bad (worse than Cairo, Mexico, China, ...). Only > the few who had been to Tehran or Lagos thought they'd > seen worse. Nobody had been to both of those, so we > could not reach a conclusion about the worst drivers > on Earth. > > -- > Sandy Harris, > Quanzhou, Fujian, China > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
