Comments on: Mainlanders Perplexed by Polite Traffic Etiquette in Macau http://www.thenanfang.com/blog/mainlanders-perplexed-by-polite-traffic-etiquette-in-macau/ News & views about Guangzhou, Shenzhen & Dongguan Fri, 02 Jan 2015 19:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Mangrove http://www.thenanfang.com/blog/mainlanders-perplexed-by-polite-traffic-etiquette-in-macau/#comment-44134 Mangrove Fri, 26 Dec 2014 00:36:00 +0000 http://www.thenanfang.com/blog/?p=34308#comment-44134 Courtesy on the roadways is a very foreign thing. Jumping in line at McDonalds or the airport boarding line is just carried over to the vehicle here but has far more dangerous consiquiences. Stopping in your lane to take a mobile phone call. Backing up on the busy highway because you missed the exit ramp. Making a left turn from the right hand lane, cutting off those cars that are going straight ahead. Parking your car in the traffic lane to go in the store to buy some noodles. A fender bender can block traffic for hours while the drivers wait for the insurance rep to show up. Cross walks and traffic lights are only for reference and to be ignored should you be in a hurry for your mahjong game. Common sense does not apply, regardless if you are a pedestrian or driver here in the "Middle Kingdom". The only way to get the attention of offenders is by getting in their pocket. Large fines would do the trick over night. But for now ... watch your ass because you are invisible and don't matter to the new BMW owner. You can teach road safety, issue fines (give the cops something to do besides pick their noses) but you can't teach common sense and common sense is in short supply here. Courtesy on the roadways is a very foreign thing. Jumping in line at McDonalds or the airport boarding line is just carried over to the vehicle here but has far more dangerous consiquiences.
Stopping in your lane to take a mobile phone call. Backing up on the busy highway because you missed the exit ramp. Making a left turn from the right hand lane, cutting off those cars that are going straight ahead. Parking your car in the traffic lane to go in the store to buy some noodles.
A fender bender can block traffic for hours while the drivers wait for the insurance rep to show up.
Cross walks and traffic lights are only for reference and to be ignored should you be in a hurry for your mahjong game.
Common sense does not apply, regardless if you are a pedestrian or driver here in the “Middle Kingdom”.
The only way to get the attention of offenders is by getting in their pocket. Large fines would do the trick over night.
But for now … watch your ass because you are invisible and don’t matter to the new BMW owner.
You can teach road safety, issue fines (give the cops something to do besides pick their noses) but you can’t teach common sense and common sense is in short supply here.

]]> By: cobbler http://www.thenanfang.com/blog/mainlanders-perplexed-by-polite-traffic-etiquette-in-macau/#comment-44113 cobbler Wed, 24 Dec 2014 04:34:00 +0000 http://www.thenanfang.com/blog/?p=34308#comment-44113 living and working 13 years in China,have drivers license for 7 years now and do also drive myself....no patience ever !!!,change lanes,passing red light and blocking the crossing , completely obstructing the traffic themselves, they complain oooh so busy ...its your own fault as never obey any rules,in the cars they feel like king , calling in the car, reducing speed to 20 km per hour and drive on the left lane...its ME ME ME !! nr 1worst drivers in the world !!!! bravo... living and working 13 years in China,have drivers license for 7 years now and do also drive myself….no patience ever !!!,change lanes,passing red light and blocking the crossing , completely obstructing the traffic themselves, they complain oooh so busy …its your own fault as never obey any rules,in the cars they feel like king , calling in the car, reducing speed to 20 km per hour and drive on the left lane…its ME ME ME !! nr 1worst drivers in the world !!!! bravo…

]]> By: hewenkang http://www.thenanfang.com/blog/mainlanders-perplexed-by-polite-traffic-etiquette-in-macau/#comment-44111 hewenkang Wed, 24 Dec 2014 02:08:00 +0000 http://www.thenanfang.com/blog/?p=34308#comment-44111 The good old 'China has to many people'-excuse. A mainland city doesn't even make it in this list of the most densely populated cities in the world. Macau does. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_proper_by_population_density The good old ‘China has to many people’-excuse. A mainland city doesn’t even make it in this list of the most densely populated cities in the world. Macau does.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_proper_by_population_density

]]> By: lacompacida http://www.thenanfang.com/blog/mainlanders-perplexed-by-polite-traffic-etiquette-in-macau/#comment-44109 lacompacida Tue, 23 Dec 2014 14:24:00 +0000 http://www.thenanfang.com/blog/?p=34308#comment-44109 普天之下，莫非皇土嘛。天朝大国，當然目中無人。 普天之下，莫非皇土嘛。天朝大国，當然目中無人。

]]> By: lacompacida http://www.thenanfang.com/blog/mainlanders-perplexed-by-polite-traffic-etiquette-in-macau/#comment-44108 lacompacida Tue, 23 Dec 2014 14:22:00 +0000 http://www.thenanfang.com/blog/?p=34308#comment-44108 Never heard of walk/don't walk lights for pedestrians ? China is more civilized and modern than I expected. Never heard of walk/don’t walk lights for pedestrians ? China is more civilized and modern than I expected.

]]> By: ChinaBroc http://www.thenanfang.com/blog/mainlanders-perplexed-by-polite-traffic-etiquette-in-macau/#comment-44107 ChinaBroc Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:53:00 +0000 http://www.thenanfang.com/blog/?p=34308#comment-44107 Saw a body with a cop standing over it on the road in Shenzhen last week, (unfortunately, so did my 5 year old). She apparently jaywalked -which I don't think has an equivalent word for it in China. Saw a body with a cop standing over it on the road in Shenzhen last week, (unfortunately, so did my 5 year old). She apparently jaywalked -which I don’t think has an equivalent word for it in China.

]]> By: Hao Hao Report http://www.thenanfang.com/blog/mainlanders-perplexed-by-polite-traffic-etiquette-in-macau/#comment-44098 Hao Hao Report Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:03:31 +0000 http://www.thenanfang.com/blog/?p=34308#comment-44098 <strong>Someone thinks this story is hao-tastic...</strong> This story was submitted to Hao Hao Report – a collection of China's best stories and blog posts. If you like this story, be sure to go vote for it.... Someone thinks this story is hao-tastic…

This story was submitted to Hao Hao Report – a collection of China’s best stories and blog posts. If you like this story, be sure to go vote for it….

]]> By: Zen my Ass http://www.thenanfang.com/blog/mainlanders-perplexed-by-polite-traffic-etiquette-in-macau/#comment-44097 Zen my Ass Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:31:00 +0000 http://www.thenanfang.com/blog/?p=34308#comment-44097 Mainlanders are in shock there is a world outside the Mainland. Mainlanders are in shock there is a world outside the Mainland.

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