Traffic Jam

You would think that I live in the middle of a big city but I'm not. I even live outside of the 'big city'. The thing is, the Norwegian roads are horrible. Not their fault that the countries is covered by fjords, mountains and hills.
The road between my home and work must be one of the worse. It goes along a mountain and in Sweden we would call this a bicycle road. Half of the distance is so small that only one car can pass and no it's not a one-way road. It's not anywhere near straight so you only see about 10m ahead of you and it's heavy trafficked - both ways including buses and lorries!
So on a Thursday at 3 PM it looks like this.

 The queue is continuing between the houses and up the hill. This is because in heavy traffic, a middle size lorry got stuck somewhere in between.
But I'm really impressed by Norwegians ability to cooperate. You actually needs teamwork and cooperation to solve this puzzle and people's kindness to reverse a long distance to let cars by.
You need to master the art of precision, reversing, breaking and courage to get through this route day after day!

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