Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Nov 5, 2006, at 12:00 PM, mike wilson wrote: > > >>Godders, you don't know you're born. My wife's record for the >>20mile journey she does to work is two hours fifty minutes. One >>way. It routinely takes an hour. I thought there were a lot of >>cars in California? 8-) > > > My experience with driving in the UK (I've probably driven about > 25,000 miles in the UK since 1993): it seems the average is to take > double to triple the amount of time to traverse the same number of > miles, on average, that it does in the USA despite having a generally > higher M road average speed. A and B roads in the UK, equivalent to > US state and county roads, are always much slower going for distance > even if they are more fun to drive in the rural areas.
My parents live 180 miles away. My record, at the moment, is 2hours 15 minutes. But I started that one with a hot engine. It all depends on where and when you are travelling. > > The trek from where I live to where Shel lives can run pretty fast, > if traffic is light as there are main roads (interstate and > interstate bypass designation) nearly all the way. But there are > nearly always difficult traffic slow downs due to the volume of > traffic and the bridge crossing junctions along the way. It's much > faster to get to San Francisco, which is only about 10 miles > closer ... I can get there in 35 minutes if I avoid the rush traffic, > with significantly less hassle. Getting to Shel's requires either > circumnavigating or crossing San Francisco Bay ... > > Godfrey > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
