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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Even if, where would I leave the horse in the evening? I don't have a field myself, and my backyard isn't really big enough for a horse 
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Ah, well, yes, I can see that that would be a hindrance.
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I could ride a bike, and have ridden a moped for almost 10 years (from age 16 to 25); hoewever, about 15 years ago, local governments thought that roundabouts would be better to prevent traffic jams, so they started to replace all traffic lights / intersections with roundabouts.
They are indeed better in preventing traffic jams, but they don't have the same 'I have to watch out here' intimidation factor of the red light. Traffic has become absolutely mayhem, even in the south, where it's not so busy. Everybody's like:
"I can STILL get into the roundabout by squeezing my 500 kg car in between that big ass 10.000 kg truck and the bus! If I don't, I have to wait 10 seconds... OH NO!"
To many, a roundabout is a little sort of irregularity in an otherwise straight roads, for which you don't even have to brake. Roundabouts scare me to death, and we got *A LOT* of them here now.
When they got to removing about every traffic light under the sun from the town where I live, I switched to public transport.
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I knew that you didn't want to bike-ride, due to traffic considerations. I confess to not knowing all the "rules of the road" for Segways. (I did, however, look up the spelling, at least.) I infer that you can't just switch over to a sidewalk, if a car roundabout is likely to run you down and kill you?
Bummer. If I had to travel 90 minutes or whatever, on public transport each day, I'd be deranged. It's the reason that I left L.A. (Los Angeles, for those of you in other countries) in the 80's, before the LA Olympics; the traffic drove me bats. I'd drive a whopping 6.5 miles--SIX and a half miles--in more than an hour, each morning, if I left a 7:00 a.m. for an 8:30-commencing workday. If I left at 6:00 a.m, it ONLY took about 35-40 minutes. I thought if I stayed any longer, I'd become one of those psycho workers that gun people down in traffic. I mean, that's
simply stupid. You can bloody nearly walk 6 miles faster. You can certainly JOG it faster.
I assume you can read and all that, at least? I had friends in LA who took public trans, (female friends) that did their hair and makeup in the bus each morning, LOL. The "before" had to be pretty scary--getting on a bus with their hair in hot rollers, etc. Always looked fab when they got OFF the bus, though. :-)
I guess if you think of it as being driven--chauffeured--it's not so bad. Right?
Hitch