zoltani

I remember being stuck in traffic crawling along at about 5-10 mph on the ring road when i was traveling from paris to a suburb about 40 Km away. You are a bit disillusioned when you say that people only use cars in europe for long trips. Have you actually experienced traffic in europe? When i was in budapest for a year i noticed that the traffic on the roads was comparable with the good old USofA, with most cars carrying only one person. When you consider the center of the city, often with very narrow street, of course you do not have the same traffic. Horrible traffic exists, it is just pushed back and hidden from the center-city (which is not a bad thing IMO).