I like town driving!
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Who else is with me?
I'm at university, so spend about half the year carless and move about by bike. When I do come home, driving again's obviously pretty high on the list of priorities - but what I've realised is that enjoy driving around town as much as I do a country blast - admittedly this may slightly be due to the typical 1.1 econobox, and I don't mean driving in gridlock, but when in town medium-low levels of traffic are actually pretty entertaining. More cerebral perhaps, as you're planning your next move rather than wrestling with physics, with is instinctive. Anyway, who else thinks negotiating 4 roundabouts a mile and arbitrary extra lanes fun?
I'm at university, so spend about half the year carless and move about by bike. When I do come home, driving again's obviously pretty high on the list of priorities - but what I've realised is that enjoy driving around town as much as I do a country blast - admittedly this may slightly be due to the typical 1.1 econobox, and I don't mean driving in gridlock, but when in town medium-low levels of traffic are actually pretty entertaining. More cerebral perhaps, as you're planning your next move rather than wrestling with physics, with is instinctive. Anyway, who else thinks negotiating 4 roundabouts a mile and arbitrary extra lanes fun?
I don't love it, but it can be satisfying smoothly and quickly slicing through a city centre, it's dull and annoying when the traffic is backed up on every road in every direction though. Some people I know have such an intense dislike/fear of driving in city centres that they refuse outright!
Mastodon2 said:
I don't love it, but it can be satisfying
point, 'satisfying' is a better way of describing it. A nice series of mini-roundabouts where you can see in advance no one's going to make you stop I would describe as fun though. And nope I've never driven the kirkstone pass, more's the pity (although I do have some nice country roads nearby, almost always deserted as well). As for the admiration, well, what can I say... a stock base model clio does give me more tail than I know what to do with 
kwits that don't know where theyre going, myself when I'm said fMilton Keynes roundabout system (the part connected by national speed limit dual carriageways) is fun, I should imagine. That said, last time I was there was about 8 years ago. I expect it is all 20mph zones with average speed cameras, and Goebbels and Himmler watch over the town via CCTV from Brussels.
My job involves driving through a busy city centre around 50% of the time. As you start to learn all the short cuts etc there is nothing more satisfying than jumping huge queues of traffic. So yes I quite like town driving, apart from when it snows and everyone does there best to either crash in to you or drive at 1mph.
jimmyjam said:
I love driving through London on a summers evening with the roof down.
8am on a Monday morning is a whole different thing
I agree. I often drive from various friends places around central to my own in West London and in the summer months its a real treat. Sunroof as opposed to convertible but its enjoyable none the less. 8am on a Monday morning is a whole different thing
E21_Ross said:
you haven't driven around brecon beacons on a quiet saturday/sunday morning have you
ivinghoe beacon... I've done a few scenic routes but that doesn't actually do much for me as it's a choice of 'enjoy the scenery' or 'enjoy the drive', attempting to both results in rather too close an 'enjoyment' of the scenery for me! (where's a :crash: smiley when you need one?). One more thing that's fun about town driving: threading through emtpy rat runs. Makes the journey feel more dramatic, and you feel like a cabbie
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