Riding electric bicycles in Dashilar's narrow traffic lanes is especially risky because elderly people constitute a large proportion of the residents.
You'll pass to one side of this medieval city gate, which was built in 1380, the largest of its kind in England, replacing a Roman gate that stood on the same site: the entrance is so narrow traffic routes round it in one direction, and only those heading back towards the station get to squeeze their vehicles (or bikes) through.
True, shameless developers continue to tear down wooden buildings to make room for ugly concrete blocks, and the narrow traffic lanes are increasingly crowded with cars.
About 20 miles from the capital, an offramp from an expressway spirals away to the southeast, onto a narrow, winding traffic-clogged road.
A helicopter hovers overhead, following the team bus as it negotiates the narrow, traffic-jammed streets between the hotel and the Barra Funda district in the center of the city.
Children run around freely on the narrow traffic-free cobbled streets, while teenagers play ball games.
It's famously hard to navigate otherwise: narrow, traffic-choked streets with every vehicle heading for the gaps in the traffic (or even the anticipated gaps) at breakneck speed.
Rescue workers struggled on Sunday to get equipment to the crash site, impeded by the city's narrow, traffic-choked streets and the thousands of onlookers who had gathered.
What, then, is the combination of the film festival, the Grand Prix of Monaco and the Chanel cruise show at St.-Tropez, all taking place this week on that rich, narrow, traffic-clogged strip of the French Riviera?
The old Borden Bridge was a narrow, two-way traffic bridge enhanced with arches, which is still visible from the new bridge.
