Wednesday, August 24, 2005

One of the big differences between here and MA/Southern NH

You find a lot of intersections here that are 4-way stop intersections, meaning everyone has a stop sign. You don't find a lot of these in the greater Boston area. Why? Because in Boston, you find that at these intersections, 4 cars will get to the intersection, and well, no one will stop. Here, you find the exact opposite. 4 cars get to the intersection, and... no one will go, even with a clear right-of-way. Sometimes they will even visually GIVE you the right of way, with a wave of the hand or a flash of the headlights, even though you are turning and they are going straight and they got there before you... weird.

2 Comments:

At August 24, 2005 1:01 PM, Stephan said...

The desire to give up the right of way has always been bizarre to me. Situations like this can be just as dangerous as the Mass approach of everyone taking the right of way. In Mass you are in heavy defense mode, you know someone is going to do something wrong. In Maine you can get caught off guard.

 
At August 24, 2005 1:36 PM, Della Bitta said...

Yeah. When I moved back-home to rural Rhode Island I found a similar behavior.

You could be driving down Main street in Wakefield all la-de-da and assuming traffic will simply flow onward. Then !BAM! - the care in font of you stops .. to let someone else from a side street onto the road . What. in. the. hell?!

We're not riding horses here people.

 

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