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| Note the vehicle below the tree on the right - parked on a roundabout immediately in front of a maternity hopsital! |
Former Monty Python actor Michael Palin once referred to the city of Bogota in Colombia as the most dangerous city in the most dangerous country in the world.
I have spent time in many parts of the world. Mauritius, Israel, Seychelles, Malaysia, Belgium, Germany, Colombia, the USA, Brunei, Madagascar, Eire, Scotland, England and Brazil. And I reckon that if you can drive in one of Mato Grosso's main cities, you cn drive anywhere in the World.
I drive around my adopted city a lot. On a busy day I spend four hours in the car. I am at the busiest phase of my life, after all. I have seen driving conditions decline over the last decade. When i moved here there was hardly a car on the road. Now, with credit having been made available by the government there are considerably more cars on the road - and more casualties. Cuiabá now has a 'Placar da Vida' on Avenida Reubens de Mendonça. It records the number of days since a fatal accident has occurred. Yesterday it read 13 days. Sounds like something out of the film 'The Ring', doesn't it?
One of the consistently worst junctions is the roundabout in from of the 'Femina' maternity hopsital. There is a school next door and congestion is bad at peak times.
Also, at any time of day you can see cars and motorcycles taking a chance and driving the wrong way around the roundabout in order to save 16 seconds. People also park illegally on chevrons every hour of the day and night.
If the driving conditions on this roundabout were not a consistent public health issue I would not include these details here. Avoid the area at peak times if you can.
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