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[Eliko]

I heard of a Scotsman coming down the Paphos hill on a skate-board on Burn's night, the wind blew up his kilt and he was nicked for 'Flashing'!!!

[rawk]

I read the other day ROC government were thinking about changing over to driving on the right in Cyprus to harmonise with the EU traffic laws.

Apparently they were going to try it out with buses and trucks first, then if that worked, get private cars to join in later!

Rawk

[morhekil]

driving on the right? You're joking. Think about highways and all the other roads everywhere you'll need to rebuild. Maybe next century, yeah.

And how they will "try it out with buses"? Building new roads for them all over the island?

[zan]

[zan]

I think they should leave the cyclists until last....................Well, you've got to have some fun.

[Pete_D]

In Malta they don't drive on the left or the right, they drive in the shade

[devil]

The UK is I believe the only country in Europe with so many cameras.

Not true. Switzerland is taking cameras more than seriously. On the motorway between Lausanne and Geneva, for example, they have installed speed camera boxes (for both directions) on an average every 2 km and you can bet over half of the boxes are populated at any time. The speed limit is 120 km/h and the tolerance before a flash is 5 km/h. You can bet your bottom dollar that if you have your cruise control set at 120 (true speed), anyone overtaking you has CD plates! Perhaps not quite as frequent on other roads but there must be literally thousands of cameras in the country.

They also have large numbers of traffic light cameras and they pioneered them 25 years ago. I got nabbed in Lausanne about 20 years ago and fined for passing 0.02 seconds after it turned red. It was OK though: I was driving my daughter's car!!! In some places, every single light has its camera.

Switzerland has one of the lowest per capita road death rates in the world, and they are striving to lower it even more (current figure is about 100 deaths per million vehicles/year, about the same as the UK; only Sweden and Norway do better). Is there cause and effect?

[Radio]

In the written part of the driving test one of the questions is,

"Here in Cyprus do you drive on the left or on the right ?".

The correct answer is, of course, "Yes !".

[Jagsman]

Having just spent 2 weeks in Cyprus I must agree the standard of driving leaves a lot to be desired.I lost count of the number of times cars jumped traffic lights along with turning without signaling.However the really scary one is when they straddle the white line or come at you on the same side of the road.It's a pity really because I really enjoyed the fact there is so little traffic compared to what I was used to in Glasgow{the Kingston Bridge at 8 a.m is an experience}

[Hazza]

Has anyone spotted those mobile cameras? Got flashed by one on the highway doing 125km/h. They were tiny things, like camcorders I guess with a red flash? Is that a speed camera? Or is it still in trial mode?

Got caught by a radar a couple of months back. Showed them my UK license so no points. They asked to see my Cypriot ID card and they put 2 points on that, saying if I ever get a CY Licence, those 2 points will automatically go on now. So now showing any ID cards people!