Just thought that I'd add a photo I took today of the traffic circles on 5th......
Would be interesting to get hold of statistics regarding the number of cars that had been written off due to "lack of attention in the middle of the night" on those circles.
Here in Kathu the bricks around the circles are much higher - so many cars with askewed frond wheels, bent chassis, etc. Why in the world should the occurance of these incidents be more frequent over weekends? (hi hi hi hi)
BierSuip
... even more so on a Payday Night when it falls on a friday.... even the streetlights are'nt safe.... the lights along the road to the mine, past the bedsitters are always getting trashed.....
the tree in the centre I don't have any memory off, maybe it was smaller, and has grown. I'm sure there were flowers in my day.
Mike what are the white box things on two sides, look like lights -(facing left and right) i see the chevrons,(top and bottom)
lots of paint on the road, arrows and triangles ?
Traffic camera's....
:emot19: just joking... I think they are power points of sorts.... I know the next circle down has lights on it over december..... Alfie! You know?
unbelievable
just missed my window of oppurtunity to slipthis in between your two posts, hhahahahahaha
I remember the biggest puddles I saw in OM after rain right here. As Barb already mentioned. Don't remember the tree.
...54 seconds my dear, that's all it would've taken.....
:36_2_35:
The bricks in the circle used to be much higher - then someone who had an accident challenged his fine and won because the height of the traffic circles' bricks was unlawful! (early 80's/late 70s).
Mike Thurtell
I when i first arrived in england and had to do my license it was a nightmare all the big circles . I was calling them circles and no one knew what i was talking about. Roundabouts over here. This was when we could not use our SA license so i just send money over to SA every year and got international one and drove on those for 5 years. Then the law changed and i was alound to changs SA one for Britsh one.
I got my drivers liscense driving from the old xray down 5th round the circle (which I took in 4th gear) and back.
Scary sh*t if you think about it.
e180
I wish i got my lisence in OM susan did hers there and she also had to drive down 5th ave and back to x ray bossie bosman passed dont know how because when she had finished coming from x ray she stalled the car, think they were very lax those days
I was lucky to get my learners and drivers on the same day up in Windhoek.... it's a nightmare to hear the stories about going for your license in ZA, no wonder most people don't bother with the LYSEEENS! :emot186:
I eventually managed to get my licence, 2nd time round.
Had to drive up streets in Sea Point and do 3 point turns, also had to negotiate the intersection out of CT from Waterfront, 5 lanes of traffic. I took the inspector out towards Bellville, he was not impressed. By the time we got back he was late for his next appointment. Hahaha
Ah well, also he said I accelerated and braked to fast, still have that problem.
Do you find the older you get ...the more paranoid you become on the roads?
I'm not sure if I'm more paranoid about the others, or the others about me... hahaha
:36_2_35:
By the way Michael. Carefull about using words like paranoid. Might get you a one way ticket..... laughpoint
Hi,
I remember this traffic circle well. During my time in Oranjemund it had a rocky flowerbed in the middle though. I remember once in the early 80's trying to get my dad's car out of the flowerbed after he had managed to unceremoniously park it there after a night out at Caseys. Does Caseys still exist today ? The circle was also the hangout for the local gemsbok population.
Many nights on my way home from the movies I would bump into a few of them grazing there and on the grass patch behind the power station.
Regards,
Carl Wrbka
Hey Diana,
I did the same strenuous drivers licence test from the old cop station around that circle . . . way back in 1975, at the ripe old age of 21!!
That Canadian Guy,
Keith.
The bar of Casey's is still there, but is now know by the name The Coolbox, and is run by a private guy..... It has changed a lot inside, with a beer garden, gambling machines and a take away restaurant..... you do not really find any white people in there these days, they are all next door in the Snooker and Darts Club......
With all this talk of strenuous drivers licences, didn't you know that you could have gotten one at Casey's in those days. The local speedcop at the time (I won't mention his name right now) was a regular at Casey's, and If you got him drunk enough he would issue you one right there and then. You probably won't get away with it nowadays, but in those days your licence was just a hand written form signed by the speedcop who took you for your test. The form was then just glued into your ID book. (The big black ones in those days).
My father in law got his code 10 licence that way. I heard there were quite a few others too.
That must have been after our time Carl,remember we got our drivers in ox-wagons.
And you had to be the ox to get your licence...
bling1
e180
Carl .. I remember another time .. must ahve been one of those caseys episodes again .. Your Dad used to pick your Mom up after work at the shopping center .. my father gave that job to me to pick my Mom up .. I remember the one day your Dad arrived and parked next to me .. the car if I remeber correctly was a valiant station wagon cream colour .. anyhow the entire drivers side was kind of totalled .. scraped and looking like crumpled tissue paper ... i remeber your Mom ( By the way I always looked upon her as a very unusualy attractive different features to the ordinary ) coming out after work looking still very angry at your Dad . anyhow he must ahve done his best to make amends as he did the entire repair job himself .. I observed the buildup of bodyfiller each time to try make good the damage .. wonder how much more the drivers side ended up weighing with all that boyfiller ?? It seemed to be a regular feature of Oranjemund caseys nights out and cars looking sorry the next day ....
The famous Valiant incident. My mom was :emot186: after too many BierSuip . The rest is history.
That reminds me of a Billy Summers Story, Billy bought a brand new car in Cape Town, drove all the way back to town, and instead of doing the right thing and going home with it.... he went to Caseys to have a beer or two with th elads, but he was clever and did not park the new car in the usual spot, for fear of a drunk coming out of caseys and trashing his new car, so he parked across the road.... But it did not help, coz my dad was parked next to him, trying to avoid Big Dirk also, so he trashed Billy's car instead... :emot19:
@ Carl it was your Mom .. no wonder she looked so tense ..
Wonder why everyone always tried to avoid Big Dirk after a Casey's hang out?
I think the main reason - he always offered to drive them home and they were scared sh*tless of that - he's driving was often more dangerous than their own intoxicated efforts. laughpoint
We checked him and Piet Steyn out one night - did we crawl home with laughter! Should get Johan Steyn to tell me the whole story again, 'cos he and my brother Leon followed them all over town. They passed Piet Steyn's house - (got lost they said later) that's where tannie Aida and my mom waited for them and we girls were ordered not to trail on with the boys.
In the above pic..... i think the palm tree looks appropriate................ Better than a Kemeeldoringboom!
Quote from: Michael Alexander on January 14, 2008, 06:33:09 PM
:emot19: just joking... I think they are power points of sorts.... I know the next circle down has lights on it over december..... Alfie! You know?
Lights and a power point for the x-mass lights they put on them?