Big City Drive

As every reader of this blog knows, I love driving. However, this love nearly ends when I enter the big city close to where I live. Driving there is a real nightmare. Sometimes I have no choice but go in there, and there is nothing I'd like to avoid more than that.

Last week I've been there. During rush hour. I regretted the second I entered the city. Traffic was heavy, and finding a parking spot was an impossible mission. I had to park far away from where I was going. A true nightmare.

Luckily, I don't plan on going there soon again. I had enough of it last week.

Have a great weekend!
Nadav

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Abundance of Roundabouts

Roundabouts are a great way to control traffic flow in an intersection, but they can easily become a nightmare. If you live near a city which has many roundabouts, like me, you will suffer when you try to shop for something on that city.

These round traffic controllers can make your life truely miserable. They can be very helpful, but when they come one after the other, they become an annoyance. It happened to me many times, and it's still annoying.

If you can, try to avoid roundabouts. However, if you must go through them, try to do that in calm times. Driving through roundabouts with busy traffic can easily become a huge nightmare.

Have a great weekend,
Nadav

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City Driving Madness

I like driving on highways and roads out of the city. They usually have flowing traffic and high speed limits, just what I like about driving. Unfortunately, not all driving takes place on these roads, and I have to go in the city.

City driving is a total disaster in the city near me. Bad roads, bad drivers, and crazy pedestrians govern the streets. Narrow roads and buses also make it hard to drive. For example, people turn left in roundabouts while going against traffic (they turn left the "fast way"). Worse than that, I had people opposing me on one way street. They just don't like to go all the way around.

I hate city driving, and I try to avoid it at all cost, but sometimes it's a must. Some drivers there should not even have a license.

Have a great weekend,
Nadav

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City Driving and You

DMV offices are located in cities, so one very crucial driving skill to master is driving in cities. Still, many driving students make terrible mistakes when they drive in city streets. Here is an article I wrote about this subject.

City Driving Errors That Fail Many Drivers on Their Road Test

Driving in a city can be much more complicated than driving on a freeway. There are traffic lights, pedestrians, slowing cars, turning cars, and many other factors to watch out for. But the road test is done in a city and not entirely on a freeway. Many driving students practice some separate driving maneuvers, but they don't know how to combine them into good city driving. That makes some city driving mistakes repeat more often than others.

One big mistake is done with crosswalks. Many driving students cannot handle a crosswalk, especially if it's positioned outside an intersection. They don't know how to recognize a crosswalk when they see it and how to treat the crossing pedestrians. Crosswalk mistakes are very harmful for the test, and usually end up as test failures.

Intersections also cause many problems to student drivers. Sometimes they are so concentrated on their driving that they forget to check side traffic on intersections, or worse, don't notice traffic lights or stop signs. If a serious enough error occurs, the examiner marks a critical error and the test is over.

Heavy traffic is a part of city driving. At some parts of the day traffic is just crawling to its destination. There are some drivers who can't handle that. They become nervous or angry, which affects their driving. If it happens to an examinee during a driving test and he starts driving like a beginner, the examiner might notice that and end the test.

Parked cars are a nightmare of every driver. Sometimes it's an opening door, on other times it's an ignorant driver who doesn't look back when exiting the parking. During the road test the driver has to be extremely cautious, or something could happen, something that could ruin his test and send him home to wait.

City driving is a matter of practice. Every driving student should get some good city driving practice before the test. A good practice does not consist of just going out to the city, but driving with a guide that explains the minor details of city driving, details that can change the test result from fail to pass.

You can find a good guide at the Pass Your Road Test area of my site. There is also a free course offered on that page with more driving test mistakes and tips.

Hope you find it useful.

Yours,
Nadav

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