"Peter McCallum" <
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> PiledHigher <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > http://tinyurl.com/7vehw
> >
> > edit: looks like I put that one through long url!
>
> "Foreigners in oil-rich Kuwait must be university graduates and draw a
> salary of not less than 1,370 dollars a month in order to obtain a
> driver's licence.
>
> A number of professionals like doctors, teachers, judges and accountants
> are exempt from some of the conditions."
I was in Kuwait earlier this year and, funnily enough, they let us drive on
the roads!!!! It is pretty well chaos on the roads there and over half of
the vehicles are giant Chevvy Suburbans, Chevvy Blazers, or Ford F Trucks
(fuel is pretty cheap over there). Also would see the occasional Commodore
(Chev Lumina), Statesman (Chev something), or Magna...... that was pretty
weird.
The road that we mainly travelled on was a freeway with about 4 lanes going
each way and a speed limit of 120km/h. We would be overtaking in the left
hand lane at 120km/h and then someone would scream past us in the parking
lane on the left (between us and the barriers) at about 150km/h. Use of
indicators seemed to be pretty much a novel concept that hadn't quite caught
on yet.
Didn't see any locals riding pushbikes although each of the US bases had a
whole heap of el-cheapo "Jeep" dual suspension mtbs in desert cam colours.
Not surprised really given that it was at least 50 degrees C for pretty well
the whole time I was there. It was weird at car parks as the cars were
fitted with a system that allowed the keys to be removed but the engine to
keep running to keep the air con going!!!!
Needless to say, was glad to leave the place.
Ride On,
Gags