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Which aspect of the highway transportation system do you despise the most? For me it's two things, SUV's blocking my vision and people not using their turn signals.
Oh, the worst was when I lived in Ann Arbor. The idiot bicyclists created half the traffic in the town as they wove in and out of traffic, the wrong way down one-way streets, and had complete disregard for traffic safety. They should have all been ticketed! If you want to share the road with cars, then follow the laws or get ticketed...or squashed!Evo said:People riding bicycles in those expensive little outfits on single lane roads with no shoulders and so hilly/curvy that there is no passing allowed for 10 mile stretches and it's extremely dangerous to attempt going over into the oncoming lane due to the inability to see uncoming traffic.
My feeling is if I need to go around one of these suckers and I'm faced with an oncoming car, the bicycle guy is going to die. tsk I guess they should have picked a less dangerous route.
If you want the roads all to yourself then you should go for a drive Thanksgiving morning.DaveC426913 said:Other people driving on my roads.
Which one? Yours or ours?Huckleberry said:If you want the roads all to yourself then you should go for a drive Thanksgiving morning.
TheStatutoryApe said:The people who forget how to drive in the rain between every rainy season.
People who tail gate infuriate me. When ever I have someone close to my bumper for more than 20 seconds I take my foot off the gas and coast until they get irritated enough to change lanes. Then sometimes I'll spead up to keep them from getting in front of me. Occasionally I just tap my break but it seems people get pissed at me and flip me off a lot when I do that.
OH! And those bastards with the super bright headlights get under my skin too. A couple times I have gotten myself behind them and turned my brights on in hopes that they get the picture.
zoobyshoe said:Speeding is the #1 cause of accidents. I dislike fast, impatient drivers, especially of the teenage variety. Last year, two days in a row I passed flipped over cars on the highway. Both had a gaggle of teenagers standing next to them, trembling, waiting for the authorities.
Course I don't hate teenagers.Gale17 said:hmmm... how about you hate the way those teens drive, instead of hating the teens themselves? I'm sometimes fast and impatient... but I'm fond of you zoob... i don't want you to hate me!
zoobyshoe said:Course I don't hate teenagers.
Goes without saying, sweetie.Gale17 said:you didn't finish your thought... you meant "course i don't hate teenagers... i love you gale!"
FredGarvin said:If people would be more aware of the actual task of driving and not be so taken in with looking at the accident or construction on the side of the road or playing with the radio or smacking their kids in the back seat or eating food or talking on the phone or putting on make-up or reading the paper...
I lived in Boston/Cambridge for a while, and they have a great public transportation system. The subway or buses can take you within a 10 minute walk of just about anywhere you want to go, and they are frequent enough that you don't need to wait for long. As more and more people in a city use public transportation, the system can afford to become more and more versatile and convenient. I would also consider taxis public transportation.mattmns said:Yeah I am with honestrosewater. Personally, I think the whole US car dependence is terrible. And maybe we will see some good changes in the next 10 years or so, unless some magic fuel comes out. The problem is, of course, that public transportation, no matter how good, is not the American way. Public transportation has no freedom, which all of us Americans need. At least with driving there is freedom, no matter how inefficient and terribly designed it is.
But at the same time, those are the idiots you can thank for your jacked up insurance premiums!brewnog said:I really wouldn't mind if these people were only a danger to themselves, - the non fatal accidents they cause would teach them a lesson, and the fatal ones would take them off my roads.
Shiny-side down. I like that one.brewnog said:his car was shiny-side down on the wrong side of the road.
FredGarvin said:But at the same time, those are the idiots you can thank for your jacked up insurance premiums!
Fred said:Shiny-side down. I like that one.
This actually makes sense though, if you are surrounded by bad drivers, you would be more likely to get hit.FredGarvin said:Also, if enough people in your area get into accidents, then you automatically get put into a higher risk category just because of where you live in relation to those people. It completely sucks.
Or worse, the ones who don't pull up to the stop line and so never trip the sensor to get the green arrow! :grumpy: Why on Earth do they need more than a car length between them and the stop line?!FredGarvin said:My other pet peeve is people that wait 10-15 seconds before moving after the light turns green, especially on a turn arrow.