Re: Looks like I need that ****er sooner rather than later

On Apr 5, 5:44 pm, Bernd Felsche <ber...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> Athol <athol_SPIT_S...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >Jason James <a...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >> I go to Sydney once or twice a year, and the traffic on the major
> >> roads (not freeways or motorways) which are 4 or 6 laners is
> >> bloody terrible if you're looking for a place you haven't been to
> >> before. Everyone else are doing their daily drive and hence speed
> >> up as they can go auto-pilot, but for the unfamiliar driver
> >> slowing down to catch a place to turn or change lanes to get into
> >> the right one,..at your own risk! You get blasted by horns,
> >> fla****ng high-beam, cars accelerating around you etc etc. And
> >> this is after studying the road map. Maybe time to get a
> >> navigator set-up.
> >The navigator would use sensis maps, so would be pretty much guaranteed
> >to be worse than the printed maps.  If you want to see what I mean, try
> >using google maps to give directions on a route that you are familiar
> >with and see how ridiculous the results are...
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> That's why _before_ my trip to Sydney, I studied the maps and
> suggested routes. (Both TomTom and Giggle)
>
> The nav. system got me where I wanted, without stress; despite me
> "going my own way" :-)
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> In Sydney, ISTM that you have to get into the correct lane early...
> sometimes a kilometre before your turn, depending on traffic. If you
> don't make it in time and miss your turn, then the nav. system
> comes into its own.

Yep, correct on both counts. Another thing of interest is
the road system design. Sometimes it is difficult to get left
to right or right to left via the respective entrance/exit points
on the short sections of road you need to use in certain traffic
conditions.