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Wild in the Streets: The Boston Driver's Handbook
Wild in the Streets The Boston Driver's Handbook Author:Ira Gershkoff, Richard Trachtman Take a crash course in Boston driving. Have you honked your horn in the last hour? Do you relish finding fire hydrant parking spots? Do you think a left turn from the right lane is perfectly acceptable? Does a red light make you speed up? If you answered no to any of these questions, be forewarned: You'll never survive Boston's wild streets<... more »/I>. But help is on the way. The essential guide to the sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious reality of driving in Boston, The Boston Driver's Handbook: The Almost Post Big Dig Edition offers expert advice on how to master this most complicated of contact sports, including:
Where to park (be inventive-curb, what curb?)
The best kind of car to drive (shiny and new screams "hit me")
How to drive in the winter (the "rock-a-bye-baby" technique is a must)
Pedestrian point values (absent-minded MIT professor, 2 points; Harvard jock, 10 points) With the newest information on the almost-but-never-quite-completed Big Dig, The Boston Driver's Handbook is a must-have for the Boston tourist and native alike. Hey, armed with the handbook's hard-earned advice, a little finesse, a lot of guts, and a tank full of gas, you too can become a certifiable Boston Driver.