Traffic...

Hey there Bloggetts!

only one here with a bike. Anyhow, it was good, we did well. At the end of the day we were sitting in a little park at the edge ofToday was spent wandering about and mapping details of our project town, Civitanova Alta. This is the one I rode the bike to last weekend. Today we went back by bus, however, seeing as I'm the town waiting for the bus to come by and I wanted to share the traffic at the intersection there...

Now, there were 6 ways into this intersection, 4 main paths and 2 lesser ones. One came from Macerata straight at the town and across the intersection turned into a local main street. To the right there was a major road leading down around the city to the larger city below on the coast. To the left there was a tight U-turn back to a local street, and then an oblique left onto another main road leading down and around the city in the other direction. Finally, past the main right turn there was access to the city parking lot... with a little wedge shaped gas station crammed in between.

The only traffic control at this intersection was that there was a yield on the local street coming in from that first left. Everything else was wide open. So cars, trucks, buses, tractors, pedestrians, everybody, just came flying in from their respective streets and sort of pushed their way through to the street they were after. I started photographing some of this but then the bus came... and it was a good thing I was taking photos because the other two guys were drawing and wouldn't have noticed the bus if they'd been standing in the middle of all this!

Ciao!

- Brian -