| my husband's condo unit is at the corner of Zhangyang lu,Pudong side where the window of his fine living room is at the right smack of those intersections... During our Christmas holiday visit, as WE (w/our kids) joyfully look on a those cars, buses, pedestrians, commuters, & bikers passes by, in just a matter of 30 minutes on that beautiful 24th of December around 8:00AM!!!, we saw 8 different cases of road accidents, on that corner alone... Imagine that!!!(that's just early in the morning,& may even doubled the number of cases as the day draws later & rushing a up) as a mother of 3kids & came from another country w/a rather different road traffic rules, I just can't help it & wonder, why is it that everybody wants to be at first??? It seems everybody doesn't want to be stopped, everyone is in a hurry, everyone is honking their horns...we even saw a commuter bus, I still remember the bus # w/c is 961, hurriedly & trying to beat the yellow traffic signs blinking, isn't it the yellow signs means to slow down, yield & be prepared for the red sign to STOP. Then, a motorcycle rider with no helmets on w/a younger child in front obviously with no protective gears too, seems not minding the traffic signs while approaching the wide intersection, even runs on a high speed, the closer it reaches the intersection the faster he drove, then making a wide right turn not minding the pedestrians awaiting to cross then suddenly losing his controls from his motorcycle, slammed into a taxi w/c at that time picking up a passenger... Oohhh, well these were just our memories of how road courtesies(?) are, be it in with a driver, a commuter, a biker, a pedestrain point of view there is in Shanghai... |