>>>>Fill up over here if you want real pain Tamar.
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>>>Yeah, we were just in Norway and Iceland, and the gas worked out to $9-$10 per gallon. Of course, everything else was more expensive than at home, too, so that made up for it. <vbg>
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>>But then the distances being so much shorter also eased the pain somewhat, I suppose. And also the way streets are built, where shortcuts are quite possible - you don't have to drive around to get from point A to point B; there are no enclaves with only one entrance, and chunks of asphalt where the car trip from one to the other is 200 times longer than the straight line between them. The urban planning doesn't create hundreds of cul-de-sacs.
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>I don't know. When Tore came to pick us up in Oslo to go out into the surrounding area, he had trouble getting to us because of one-way streets, and getting out of Oslo was quite the trick as well.
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>I agree with you about cul-de-sacs. FWIW, it's the local governments who tend to require the developments to be built that way. Supposedly, good traffic planning calls for dumping everyone onto the major roads and keeping them off the neighborhood streets, unless they live there.
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>Tamar

Thats a good idea. Its not nice to live on a suburban street that doubles as a cut through for commuter traffic. Having lived in a cul de sac and a through road I know which I prefer.