Cab Ride - Like New York, Taxi's crowd the streets of Athens. The subway and bus
lines can provide transportation, but the easiest (although not cheapest) way to get to or
from the port or the airport is a cab. In addition to cabs, motorbikes and mopeds fill the
spaces between cars, trucks, and busses on the streets. Traffic laws are regularly broken,
and it is rumored that offenders are sometimes ticketed by the police, although I never
actually saw this happen myself. You quickly learn to cross the street whenever there is a
gap in traffic, whether the gap is caused by a traffic signal or not. The length of time a
person has been navigating the streets of Athens can be accurately judged by the size of
gap they deem necessary to safely cross. Athenian natives know that expensive cars are
more likely to slow down when faced with the possibility of minor damage to their front
ends and use this fact to their advantage.
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