Your pictures of Buenos Aires and beyond
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It’s logical that the car entering the circle allows those already circling to proceed. But, once there, no one uses the turn indicator to let everyone else know when they are exiting. Makes me crazy.
To many redneck drivers around here, that do not understand anything logical. Roundabouts are nightmares to negotiate, along with intersection where everyone wants to rush through on the yellow light.
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To many redneck drivers around here, that do not understand anything logical. Roundabouts are nightmares to negotiate, along with intersection where everyone wants to rush through on the yellow light.
Ah! Your bringing up the yellow light gives me an idea, daniel ! If CABA enforced all the red light violations, the city would be swimming in money. (provided there actually is a ticket with a fine associated with running a red light? Has anyone ever heard of a ticket being issued for a traffic light violation? Is there any attempt to collect fines?)
Besides filling the city’s coffers, enforcing traffic tickets could actually make BsAs a safer place. Why doesn’t this happen?
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Here they ignore motor cyclists and their child passengers not wearing helmets riding the wrong way up a one way street, sometimes even on the pavement. God help us should those idiots ever get behind the wheel of a car.
Most of the police in the street I see are too busy smoking while playing with their phones. The police force does seem to be some sort of a job creation scheme....for young females especially.
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Most of the police in the street I see are too busy smoking while playing with their phones. The police force does seem to be some sort of a job creation scheme....for young females especially.
We get the same impression from police we see lounging around on our plaza. I’m told that they don’t make actual arrests when they see a real crime being committed because the criminals’ rights supersede those of their victims.
But what’s the problem with enforcing some routine traffic violations to improve the safety of drivers and pedestrians? And lining the city’s coffers in the bargain?
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We get the same impression from police we see lounging around on our plaza. I’m told that they don’t make actual arrests when they see a real crime being committed because the criminals’ rights supersede those of their victims.
But what’s the problem with enforcing some routine traffic violations to improve the safety of drivers and pedestrians? And lining the city’s coffers in the bargain?
Yes I agree. They seem keen on issuing parking tickets but when it comes to an innocent person being killed by someone running a red light they couldn't care less. Strange culture.
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What a beautiful Cat!!!! We used to have a black Cat like that, perhaps it migrated to Argentina?
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Good grief! That was 37 years ago? I didn’t know that traffic was such a problem back then.
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Good grief! That was 37 years ago? I didn’t know that traffic was such a problem back then.
Every year the car market adds 300.000 new cars in the whole country. Imagine the car traffic jams nowadays. However the improvements in traffic lights and other ways have equilibrated the problem. And, of course, many people left the car in their houses using the public transport system that is quite reliable in BA. That is my case, having buses and railway very close to my home. I only use the car when necessary to bring some group of people to a far awat place.
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The greatest for me to watch, sorry haven't managed a pic, is the small vans, like Peugeot Partner or so, transporting eggs around for delivery......whole back of car full of the 30 egg cartons, maybe some 100 of those....... imagine driving around the city on a bizzy day with that on your shoulders......... hahahaha......
Imagine how it would look by a quick abrupt halt.....
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The Banco Aleman Transatlantico was an important Bank of the Germans, arrived well before WWI. They built a large builiding along Paseo Colon, and after WWII passed to the hands of the goevernment, as we first declared war to Germany in February 1945 to get the properties of the German capitalists in Argentina. It was renamed later as "Banco Nacional de Desarrollo". Therefore no wonder that some flags with the swastikas were there during 1934 to 1945.
Some important German firms were the Siemens Bauunion, a building company that built the Kavanagh Building and the subway from Retiro to Constitucion in the 1930's. They introduced the use of reinforced concrete in huge buildings.
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I take it that's not the Uber VIP version -
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I see a lot worse than that on the roads every day.
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