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If only... Posted by Chadwick [Email] (#569) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Chadwick) on Fri, 18 May 2012 05:14:51 In Reply to: The autobahn commute, Noel, Thu, 17 May 2012 06:42:53 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Have been over there twice now, but only this last time did I actually have access to a car. A Volvo S60.
It blew my mind how well it all worked. It takes a level of personal awareness and responsibility that we just don't have on our roads. Also, almost all of it was three lanes, never a pothole, and the curves seemed to be more gradual than the east coast highways I'm used to.
We took the 3 to the 4 from Frankfurt to Belgium, going about 95mph the entire time, getting blown by on the left by vehicles that were not anything special really... but they were easily going 120mph.
We need to do whatever we need to to make that work here. I'd pay a higher highway tax for sure if I had roads like that to drive on.
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