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Mon 2008-06-16 12:42 |
Before I was a Londoner, I drove into London quite frequently on clubbing expeditions, and then a few years after that I rode a motorbike through London quite regularly to visit my then girlfriend.
My experience on both occasions was that London drivers are mostly fine (except pizza mopeds), and in fact are much nicer about letting you out of side turnings than people in smaller towns/cities tend to be. What I found really difficult, especially when I first started driving into London, was navigating in an area with such a density of junctions.
Particularly having learned to drive in Milton Keynes, I'm used to 'the third left' meaning 'about 2km from here', not 'about 20 metres from here'. Combine that with the one-way horrors you can get entangled with if you do miss your turning (whereas in MK there's (almost) always an entirely predictable route back onto the correct course), and you have pretty much the entire reason I hated driving into London.
Satnav helps a great deal :) |
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