Gossip about traffic in USA

On October 12, 2010, in China Travel Gossip, Tips&Ideas, by Liu Qi

People who Travel to Beijing a lot would have an impression of the transportation in Beijing: traffic jam. How will it get in the USA? Does it better or worse than China Tours in Beijing? Today let us gossip of it.

First, we tourist surely want to know Tour Buses there whether has any difference from China. The answer is YES. Unlike China, the U.S. law rules that tour bus drivers must have a continuous 9 hours of rest and their driving time is limited no more than 11 hours a day. So your requirement of extra driving at night can possibly be refused. Based on ensuring the safety of passengers’ life and property, U.S. law prohibits drivers to work overtime. In addition, smoking in tour buses is forbidden at anytime. You can not eat food and drink beverages. There should be no ice-cream and no taking off shoes. All these rules are on account of keeping the buses clean and having fresh air. Last but not least, according to Regulations under the environmental laws air conditioning is not allowed when the driver waiting for customers in the parking, otherwise they will be fine. Please understand it.

Next are some unofficial things about the transportation in USA. This may help people who will have a long time to stay there for travel or some other reasons.

Maybe the most notable one is traffic fines since rules about fines there are pretty strict. Among these the following two kinds of traffic fines can be the representative ones. One is the speed limits. It is divided into highway, sub-highway, roads in general, the city and parking lots etc. several grades. Limited speed in general roads is 65miles per hours, not more than 104 kilometers per hour. In the United States, according to models and road condition, running 100 miles could not be galloping. But speeding is to be fined undoubtedly. And the more than the prescribed the higher fines you may get. If you want to travel at 100 miles, once caught with the police, you will be fined not less than $ 1,000. That is a huge number of money. U.S. fine rules treat equally without discrimination. Police deals it definitely on rules. Experienced drivers there obey the rules carefully for avoiding the high fine. Different from fined then leaves in China, it will be recorded by computers. And if you speed for the first time, you will have a security lesson for half a day instead of paying the fine. Half a day means a lot in U.S. where time is money in. That may be not easy than a fine. Remember, chances like this could be only once in a year.

The other one of traffic fine is about parking limit. There are so many parking lots since it has lots of cars. Large parking lots there are managed by computers. That is where the representative happens. Please insert enough coins, or you probably get a fine for your parking over just 1 minute. For example, you can park for half an hour for 25 cents, but you will pay a fine of $ 40 for another 1-10 minutes. Obviously, in the United States parking fees is necessary to pay more. It is different from your china travel. Remember no fluke mind in USA.

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