Puerto Rico viewed from a gringo’s perspective
25 Mar
In Puerto Rico, you better hope your house isn’t on fire or that you are about to die in the back of an ambulance, because cars will not get out of the way of emergency vehicles. It is truly an odd site to see. I guess because in the States we go out of our way to get out of theirs.
I think people just don’t believe that there is an emergency. I don’t know how many times I have seen an emergency vehicle turn on his lights and sirens so they could run a red light. So I do think the mentality is that if I have to wait so do you.
People don’t believe the cops either. They are always breaking the driving laws. The motorcycle cops do exactly the same as all other motorcyclist that I wrote about earlier.
One of the problems with the police is that there is little enforcement. If they started writing tickets for parking illegally, or catching the crazy motorcycles, etc. Traffic would flow smoother.
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