Start Your Engines
Strange Thing #19: Traffic lights go in the following order: Green, Yellow, Red, Yellow, Green, etc. This is different from American traffic lights which go: Green, Yellow, Red, Green.
It would seem to me that the extra yellow in the British system would lead to some sort of NASCAR related/James Deanesque drag racing scenario at every light in the country. Knowing exactly when the green was coming would only give you time to rev up the engine and start moving the clutch out, and then you could go tires squealing through every intersection. But maybe that doesn't happen here, because Americans are weird about our cars, i.e. mildly obsessed to the point of preferring to sit in an SUV on the beltway for three hours a day rather than take public transportation.
It would seem to me that the extra yellow in the British system would lead to some sort of NASCAR related/James Deanesque drag racing scenario at every light in the country. Knowing exactly when the green was coming would only give you time to rev up the engine and start moving the clutch out, and then you could go tires squealing through every intersection. But maybe that doesn't happen here, because Americans are weird about our cars, i.e. mildly obsessed to the point of preferring to sit in an SUV on the beltway for three hours a day rather than take public transportation.
Oh but it does! Its the get ready! Ever been on the carriageway late at night in particular parts of town - the Boy Racer live and well and living in essex, or any suburb actually. Also more subtly, unless participating, it is VERY important to get away first, espeically if your car is crapper than the one beside you, particularly if its a merc or a beamer.
Posted by
Harriet (the fshlady) |
1:02 pm, November 23, 2004
Actually traffic lights in UK go red - red and yellow - green - yellow - red
Posted by
Anonymous |
12:50 pm, February 13, 2005