Have you ever been to Rome ?
or Bombay?
London's rather mad. >>>At least where you are you have proper motorways/roads built for cars?
Here most streets were built for horses.
I drove for 13 years in America (Toronto, NY and Fla), without an accident ever, but I was carefully driving wonderful cars which were built for American highways such as T-Birds and Caddies...
Here now in London I'm scared silly of the roads every single day, so I cycle fast overtaking everything, straight down the middle of the street and it's so dangerous, it's exhilarating.
xxxLinda