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From: browne@savax.UUCP (browne)
Newsgroups: net.travel
Subject: Re: Re: Transportation in Europe
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Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 08:55:14 EDT
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Organization: Sanders Associates Inc. Nashua ,NH
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> drivers are courteous and aggressive at the same
> time, rather than timid and rude as is so often the case here. 

Drivers in Italy are really something else! A someone else mentioned,
they drive (as people in the states would say) like maniacs.
In Rome, I never saw one accident.  If you are a pedestrian, you
approach the street you wish to cross, and hold your hand out,
palm down/toward oncoming traffic (as if you were a traffic cop).
THE TRAFFIC STOPS FOR YOU!!!!
It was incredible. I've never seen anything like it in my life before
or since. Even though they are rushing and bustling around, they stop
for any pedestrians, almost any time.

Duff Browne
Sanders Assoc.
Nashua, NH