Singaporean traffic behaves in very strange ways. Traffic engineers unfortunately produce theories of limited exportability.... somehow Singaporeans always seem in a rush to get somewhere, and do strangely irrational things even if it means they'll cut about 4 seconds from their travelling time. (travelling time to the next red light, that is) and the one thing that traffic analysts don't account for, of course, is 4D numbers. Possibly because the license plate numbers in other countries sometimes have more than 4 numbers on them....
http://www.smartmotorist.com/wav/wav.htm is a theory on traffic waves, for those of you who're interested/bored. It's the phenomenon of there being traffic jams even when there's no obvious obstruction to traffic.... The only thing is, if you follow their advice and try to keep a constant speed instead of that typical stop-go behaviour in traffic jams..... some Singaporean driver's gonna think "AHA! an EMPTY SPACE!" and then cut right in front of you.
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In other news, the obedient dog in the photo was spotted again, this time much closer to the entrance of the food centre. He's probably obediently tempted.
I must lead a really boring life.
Sunday, October 19, 2003
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