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Uruguayan TrafficThis forum post has messages dated from 02/16/12 through 02/17/12, please be sure to read all the messages. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it.
| Uruguayan Traffic I have felt for the last couple of years that traffic -- and drivers' habits have been deteriorating in the ROU. I haven't written about this because I realized that myn expereinece was atypical. Eight years ago I moved from Buenos Aires to Médanos de Solymar. That was like going back fifty years -- back and north to San Dego county in he late 1940's. I can still remember my aunt and uncle telling my cousin and me that we were to cross only in crosswalks and only after looking drivers in the eyes. The assumption of that innocent age and place was that pedestrians had an absolute right of way -- drivers would stop. They did! So did drivers in Médanos, El Pinar and even along the Avenida Giannatasio in its busiest tramos eight, seven and six years back. Then came the Prado, then Parque Rodo, and now Pocitos. In each new neighborhood I noted progressively less tolerance for pedestrians, more and more drivers behaving like porteños; that is, crowding traffic lights, ignoring traffic lanes, using their horns in place of decelerating when pedestrians stepped into crosswalks.Then several months ago an omnibus killed a pedestrian at 18 de Julio and Bulevar Artigas. The law kicked in. The driver went to prison. The driver's union said not, "Peep!" So, from that I concluded that while customs are deteriorating, there is at least on the part of professional drivers, a recognition that the law, in the end, must be obeyed. Two real questions remained in my mind. First Expert Page: Enjoy life a bit at Feligreta |
| "Traffic, part II"
what had led Uruguayan drivers to what seems to me to be crowded rat-cage behavior? One, sad, conclusion I have reached is that bad manners come from prossperity. According to figures released on the website of the Uruguayan automobile industry, new car sales have been up, way up over the past thre years, over shich time nearly 140, 000 new units have been aded to the parque automotriz. This is counting just 4 or more wheeled vehicles/ Motorcyles may more than double the count of new units added over three years. Remember rural San Diego County if 50 years back? The same two-way traffic roads, unmarked crosswalks, stil dominate Uruguay today. But with a huge increase in rolling stock, the road net is far from adequate to support the traffic. Thus, impatience, bad manners and an alarmng increase in traffic injuries and deaths.The second question is -- why no effective traffic-law enforcement campaign? I remember when the traffic police went on strike a while back. I don't remember the terms of settlement. I presume that the system that gives a part of the fines collected to individual offciers continues in force. So, what I don't understand is why there has been no campaign to enforce the pedestrian right-of-way law at crosswalks, both marked and unmarked, for instance. I imagine the fine for that offense should be quite high -- and thus lucrative. I can understand the reluctance to enforce speed laws in cities. That one would inevitably lead to high-speed chases. But, others? So, how does Uruguay go about taming traffic? Expert Page: Enjoy life a bit at Feligreta |
| "Traffic"
It sounds like you have been moving into more and more crowded neighborhoods. Maybe traffic has always been bad in these neighborhoods, you just didn't see it because you weren't there. Now you are there and are comparing it to where you were. Just a thought. How is traffic in Médanos de Solymar these days? Any idea on the traffic accident rate in ROU? How many per thousand drivers per year, or something like that? |
Comment #302/17/12 09:33Rural east Colonia departmento | "Traffic"
Its my impression that the number of cars on the roads of MVD has more than doubled since 2005 and that the increase in traffic has worsened driving standards there.The number and size of the vehicles on the roads down here has increased too... but because of our very small population, most drivers have remained polite and laid-back. The exception to this are the Argies who rush down Ruta 1 on their holidays but these provide a generous income flow in speeding fines resulting in lower taxes for us Colonia residents so I mustn't grumble :-) |
| "Stats..."
of a reliable sort are hard to come by. They almost always appear ins upport of someone or another proposal or prject. But, here is one from El Observador of July last:Los accidentes de tránsito crecieron en Uruguay un 15, 3% en los últimos 12 meses. Además, en lo que va del año se llevan registradas 286 muertes por accidentes, frente a 248 de igual período de 2010.Las cifras surgen del informe del Observatorio Nacional sobre Violencia y Criminalidad, que publica este martes el Ministerio del Interior. Expert Page: Enjoy life a bit at Feligreta |
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