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SV650rules · 22-11-17, 05:41 PM

In the words of a famous song 'LA is a great big freeway, put a hundred down and buy a car, ( in a week maybe two they'll make you a star)'. When we lived in Australia overtaking on the left (or 'undertaking' as it was aptly called) was sort of OK, but made driving pretty stressful and people would shoot past on the inside and you had to continually check your mirrors, I had a grandstand view of an accident (nearly caught up in it) when outer two lanes of a 3 lane road stopped because of traffic light ahead, some people (including me) had stopped to leave a gap to allow people to turn across road junction (was before the lights but not light controlled) from other carriageway when a guy comes down the inside lane at a rate of knots and T bones a turning car directly in front of me, luckily the local fire station was on the junction and I legged it to the station to get help.

Sorry but lane splitting, filtering at more that a walking pace and undertaking are strictly for the birds.

I have driven in LA as well, while on holiday, but much preferred the Pacific Highway.

22-11-17, 05:41 PM	#2
SV650rules Member Mega Poster Join Date: Nov 2016 Location: Shropshire UK Posts: 1,363	Re: Los Angeles In the words of a famous song 'LA is a great big freeway, put a hundred down and buy a car, ( in a week maybe two they'll make you a star)'. When we lived in Australia overtaking on the left (or 'undertaking' as it was aptly called) was sort of OK, but made driving pretty stressful and people would shoot past on the inside and you had to continually check your mirrors, I had a grandstand view of an accident (nearly caught up in it) when outer two lanes of a 3 lane road stopped because of traffic light ahead, some people (including me) had stopped to leave a gap to allow people to turn across road junction (was before the lights but not light controlled) from other carriageway when a guy comes down the inside lane at a rate of knots and T bones a turning car directly in front of me, luckily the local fire station was on the junction and I legged it to the station to get help. Sorry but lane splitting, filtering at more that a walking pace and undertaking are strictly for the birds. I have driven in LA as well, while on holiday, but much preferred the Pacific Highway. __________________ 2016 SV650 AL7 Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear - Mark Twain Last edited by SV650rules; 22-11-17 at 05:44 PM.