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Re:Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the... by yodsanklai on Monday February 03, 2020 @04:10AM (#22222605)
You're lucky. Here in France, honking is illegal (except for signalling immediate danger) yet people honk all the time and it's tolerated. I live in a city and it's a major nuisance. It's stressful for drivers (even more for cyclists) and extremely annoying for people living nearby. I really don't understand why this isn't taken more seriously.
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Re:Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the... by seszett on Monday February 03, 2020 @04:34AM (#22222716)
I thought it was bad in France but now I live in Belgium and it's much worse. That's in Flanders, no idea about the rest of Belgium although I imagine Brussels should be worse on this regard.

People will honk just because they are stuck in traffic, and once one car starts honking, at least a few others will join them.

In my street in particular, this happens at least weekly at 7am and in front of a hospital, and if I walk up to them to tell them to stop because it's useless and disturbs everyone, they get even more angry obviously.

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Re:Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the... by justanotherc on Monday February 03, 2020 @06:42AM (#22223328)
People don't like to be told they did something wrong
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Re:Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the... by hylaride on Monday February 03, 2020 @09:18AM (#22224289)
Interesting. Last time I was in a city in France, I noticed the whine of scooters more than honking, but I live in a big city so I may have just tuned the honking out.
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