I've just returned from a car-less holiday in Jersey, with lots of bussing and walking.
It was interesting to observe the different driving standards. The roads are mostly narrow, and the main roads have long stretches where there is only just room for two buses to pass. Yet everyone drives quite briskly, and by UK standards to a much higher standard.
Even men in caps got a move on, knew how to reverse competently, and all were very good at judging spaces.
The bus drivers pass walls and other vehicles at up to 40 mph with inches to spare, and confidently manouevre into any available opening in order to pass.
Yet at the same time everyone is very polite. Drivers readily allow pedestrians to cross, drivers let buses out, but also bus drivers are courteous to other drivers too.
Less haste, more speed really seems to work. The only really stupid acts I saw were by people in UK registered cars.
If only a comparable house to ours didn't cost about £5m I'd be tempted to move there.
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