Why did Berry drive to Geneva in 1961 ?

[Durango2k]

I found this in "look at life"- a car transport flight service from London to Geneva...

Carsten

[Simon P]

Splendid! Can you imagine? People who happily managed to lead their whole lives without ever sending or receiving a single text or without having their day constantly interrupted by a constant barrage of emails....

:D

[christopher storey]

I love the way some loader at Geneva drives the Simca Aronde off backwards without ever looking behind him ! ( Oh, and in answer to Carsten's question posed in the title of this thread, I think the longer Carvair services were summer only , and they may not even have started until 1962 or 63 although the Lydd / Le Touquet and Southen/Ostend were going earlier than that , using Bristol Freighters

[richard btype]

The difference in traffic density/car ownership is such a marked feature. I seem to recall (Bank Holidays excepted) that most journeys were on A & B roads and ran quite freely.

That was in the days when the focus was on traffic efficiency for example there is a road nr Braintree Essex where the road changes between single lane traffic interspersed with short double lane sections so the faster traffic had an opportunity to overtake the slower vehicles. That same road still exists but now the double lane sections have been reduced to cross hatched single lanes so one is forced to just follow in single file.

I very much dislike the manipulation by the traffic planners to a dumbed down controlled situation - the same thing applies on many slip roads such as joining the Al going South from the South Mimms service area...

[Simon P]

True. Witness the ever expanding number of sets of traffic lights on roundabouts these days. Traffic lights! On roundabouts! What the heck's all that about....

:?

[tinworm]

Down in darkest Devon they like to fill in bus stop laybye's and make the bus stand in the road offloading passengers , just to stop the traffic (or slow it down).

Barrie

[neal herridge]

In my part of Devon Barrie we don't have Buses. Just very big pot holes.
Neal.

[Mark Gordon]

"True. Witness the ever expanding number of sets of traffic lights on roundabouts these days. Traffic lights! On roundabouts! What the heck's all that about.... "

I try to be understanding of the fact that different countries look at situations differently from what I am used to (warm beer in Germany, driving on the wrong side of the road in GB, etc.) but TRAFFIC LIGHTS in a round about? I thought that the whole purpose of those things, which by the way seem to work very well even with the idiots here in the U.S., is to eliminate traffic lights and the unnecessary waiting for the light to change when no traffic is coming. Can anyone explain the logic of a light in a round about?

[Simon P]

Exactly. You develop a system that is designed to be perfectly self-regulating - and then you go and impose a system of regulation upon it. Makes absolutely no sense at all - but they've crept in everywhere over here.

Consider also:

- The cost of re-painting all the road markings and installing the lights
- The cost of servicing the lights and the cost (financial and environmental) of supplying them with round-the-clock electricity
- The time, petrol, and money wasted spent sitting at lights at roundabouts when you could be on your way

Come the day of the revolution.......