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emoove (tony) wrote:

For real culture shock as a driver, Drive through Boston, park at Logan. Fly
to SFO, and drive in that city. I mean, they actually stop when people step off
the curb to cross the street! I thought it was to give them a chance to get
into the kill zone, but no, those people were allowed to just walk across
the street!

True enough. That's more or less the law in all of California.

But at the same time there's currently a really serious red-light
running problem -- don't slow, don't even look except for a cursory
glance, then bomb on through -- in SF, and it's caused some really nasty
incidents.