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| buying a carWhen thinking about a car purchase in Uruguay, we really need to focus very hard on what it is that we can and cannot do in this country. Speed limits should be taken into consideration if one were thinking about obtaining some 'zero to sixty' vehicle while living in this country. |
|  "Roads in Uruguay"
I haven't seen the police enforcing strict speed limits so much, but I think you would be hard pushed to find any decent quality road that isn't busy on which you could attempt 0-60 in a couple of seconds. Outside of Montevideo and the main coastal highways out to Colonia and up to Chuy you are facing mostly tiny side roads and dirt/gravel tracks. |
| "Road to Salto"
I drove to Salto and back once. The roads were well maintained, ash fault, with little traffic and great for speeding! There were also cops positioned regularly with what appeared to be radar.You would easily do a 0 to 60 test on any of those roads. You could also easily do 80 or 90 MPH and get a speeding ticket too. The road to Colonia would seem about the same based on my bus trips to Colonia. Within Montevideo it seems rare to see transit police. You could do the 0 to 60 test almost anywhere on the Rambla in Montevideo during the wee hours of the morning. |
| "Autobans."
Try Germany! hahaha. Elaine is right, the southern strip between Colonia and Punta del Este and a small suburban sector of northward Route 5 starting in Montevideo are the only separated ways roads. Those sectors, are precisely the ones more under the eyes of the road police. 110K/h is the speed limit in the best sectors. The rest of the roads are two-way without separation, rather narrow, sometimes hilly. Nice roads to drive peacefully, but not at all to test the limits of a Ferrari. Besides, you would have to share the roads with much slower and older vehicles. In the South you'll also find the rural neighbour taking the road to visit his cousin, or going to the druggstor in the local village, that cannot possible understand the cultural urgencies of Montevideans and foreing tourist speeding on the same road, nor have an idea of the driving technics that need to be put in place to satisfy those urgencies (like signaling a turn, not stopping on the road so say hello to somebody, not making unexpected manouvers, or having all the lights in order. City and rural life are completely different human systems; there can be problems when their different speed mix. |
Comment #404/01/10 09:34Rural east Colonia departmento | "Ruta 1"
If you are driving the Ruta 1 MVD-Colonia, the section from the toll at Cufre (approx km 110) to Colonia Valdense (km 119) is deadly for speed traps. The speed limit does frequent changes between 60kph, 75kph and 90kph along a stretch of excellent dual carriageway road which positively begs to be driven along fast and there are usually lurking traffic cops. |
Comment #504/01/10 09:44Rural east Colonia departmento | "Urban -v- rural"
"City and rural life are completely different human systems; there can be problems when their different speed mix."When I was reading up on the rules before taking my ROU driving tests I was surprised to discover that there are officially two different methods for making a left turn... the urban method and the rural method. The urban method involves signalling left, pulling to the middle of the road and making the LH turn when its clear to do so but the rural method involves signalling left, pulling up on the right hand side of the road and waiting until the road is clear before darting across both carriageways. After the recent road works on Ruta 1 near La Paz, we now have a new junction onto the Nueva Helvecia/La Paz road laid out in the urban style. It seems to cause a lot of confusion :-) |
| "Urban v. Rural"
Now there's a general traffic law that is supposed to rule everywhere, but I didn't meant that, but the different "states of mind" that traduces into traffic conducts. The conduct of the good old granjero in his old Chevrolet pickup truck, accostumed to the local dirt roads, drinking mate while he drives, that occationally takes the main road to do 10-20Kms, and the Montevidean maniac (or even worst, the Porteņo!) that would speed to 140Km/h just to save 15 minutes of his 200km trip. The urban guy is used to speed and knows that some rules have to be observed so speed is possible (I'm sure that seeing the traffic in MVD foreigners would lough, but believe me, be it the legal ones or not, we follow some rules... hahha). Anyway, signaling a turn or a sudden stop, in the rural roads is just for the cows to observe... and may seem ridiculous; so it's difficult to change that mindset when occationally taking the main road. And also, it is that different meaning and value of time... |
Comment #704/01/10 21:13Rural east Colonia departmento | "Urban v. Rural"
All true. I've noticed that my own driving has deteriorated over the 3 years I've lived here. I nearly hit a neighbour the other day when reversing out of a field entrance without looking properly. The absence of traffic can make you lazy. As to MVD, I don't find the traffic too bad. There again, I'm comparing it to driving in Thailand :-) |
| "After 2 week road trip"
Having been a pedestrian in Uruguay for the past year and a half it was a nice change to be back behind the wheel of a car. I recently spent 2 weeks driving along the coast of Uruguay, up to Punta del Diablo and then out toward Colonia...I still have not yet ventured up north to Salto/Paysandu - (it seems to flood every time I consider going!). I found in general the driving in Uruguay is pretty decent (if you've stood on the Arc de Triumph in Paris and looked down at the craziness or tried to cross a street in Budapest or survive a taxi ride in Buenos Aires, Uruguay is heaven in comparison!). One thing that does annoy me a little is the junctions in Montevideo. Many streets have junctions of equal importance with no traffic lights or yield signs. In all the taxis I've ever taken nobody seems to assume right of way, they have to slow down to check at EVERY single corner, even the ones with yield signs!! Canelones and Maldonaldo are prime examples of this...hardly any traffic lights, large junctions every few feet...who knows?! And the pedestrian crossings are the same as in Budapest, the light turns green for you to cross, but it also turns green for those turning the corner, so while you're crossing they continue to drive at you and look infuriated waiting for you to get out of their way! |
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