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Back when right on red was first allowed in PA, after about 6 months of the new law I came to a red light, stopped, looked both ways, and proceeded to make a LEFT on red... whoops! My passenger sat there with this look on his face like " What just happened?"...LOL
Minor braincramp!
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Just yesterday, as I was heading home with dinner, I pulled up into the intersection during a green light to await an opportunity for a left turn. Light went yellow, and cars heading in both directions began to slow. Light went red, and I began to move to complete the turn and get out of the intersection.
Enter pickup truck coming from other direction. He actually goes AROUND the car in front of him, which had already stopped at the light, and runs the red doing about 45-50 mpg, barely missing me. I had to slam on the brakes to avoid making the evening news.
When the light turns yellow, 4 cars go (that's fine)...It turns red... and 3 more are continuing to turn. Green turning light hits the other direction, and they can't turn because the cars from the "NOW RED light running people, are still turning"...
Ok so I've had it... NOW When the light turns green, I shoot. Already had one city bus who RAN the obvious red light, slam his brakes because I was NOT about to let him go through... The cars behind me, ALSO did NOT let him go through... So here he is in the middle of the intersection STUCK because everyone is crossing. And all the time my yelling "HIT ME, HIT ME!!! Your a city bus, make my day!"
Yesturday it was a Grand Cherokee, and a Chrysler Minivan. The lady had the nerve to beep at me as if I'm the one who did wrong, that's ok... I blocked her, still didn't let her go through and let the only lane continue where someone almost hit her head on.
No, there's no hostility....
I was tailgated by a FedEx double truck even though the lane in front of me was blocked by two trucks already who felt the left lane had been built for them for 10 miles.
When he finally passed he then slowed back down to the 70 mph speed limit he follows (trucks and cars speed limit is 65.
In Ohio we have a 55 speed limit for trucks and 65 for cars. Lobbies have been trying to get that changed. Now I can see same speed for both doesn't work at all. I am contacting my local state representatives to lobby against the same limit for trucks. IT'S NOT SAFE.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
On the bright side, I can smile and know that I'm going a heck of a lot further on a gallon of gas. ;-)
Kyle
The Politically Correct way, just let go of the gas and slow down...
Mine.. Brake check ! Apply one foot on the brake quickly, the other on the accelerator... That should cure it.... :-)
My husband drives a 1999 Dodge Ram V10 dually for business and when he's got a load of firewood in it (read: stuff that could come flying out) people insist on tailgating him. I don't get it.
I'm driving my Titan today, I dare anyone to tailgate me now.
On one morning commute I saw two stunts occur in a minute or two. The first stunt was a guy in an econobox in front of me in a left hand turn lane. The arrow had been yellow for a few moments. As our hero gets to the intersection, it goes red. Instead of running it like everyone else does around here, he decided to go right. He turned right in front of the other land which was a go straight or turn right lane.
The second hero was in a Mustang in the center land of a three-lane road going east. He had his turn signal indicating he wanted to get into the right lane. There was a truck there so as I came up behind the Mustang I figured he was trying to move in behind that truck. Nope. He does a U turn across the left lane, through a gap in the divider and heads west.
I think I need a soundboard in my car now so I can summon the voice of Darth Vader saying "Impressive" every time I see one of these bold maneuvers.
3-points it around so he's facing the correct way in a parking space. After I pass he proceeds to go in reverse the same direction as before. So I guess its ok to go the wrong way on a one way street as long is you're in reverse!
Kyle
When traffic is clogged I stay in the lanes I need to be in and wait patiently, even as traffic flies by on my right going 10-20 mph faster. But SOME idiots will insist anyway on flying by on the two right lanes until the last second just to avoid waiting in line, then coming to a complete stop in their lane right where it splits into two different highways and butting their way in. I actually saw a city bus do this yesterday. But the best part is at first this little red Geo in front of me didn't want to let him in.
Picture it: four lanes branching off. City bus in second lane from the right trying to bully his way into the second lane from the left. Private tour bus of some sort in the far left lane with little red GEO sandwiched in the middle.
I guess the private tour bus felt some sort of comraderie or something with the public bus driver. When he saw the Geo wasn't giving ground he veered in front of him from the left to make him stop suddenly and leave space for the Septa bus. I despise normal cars who do this to begin with, rushing to the end, coming to a complete stop in their lane, and then bullying their way in after I got to where I was supposed to be ahead of time and waited patiently in line.
But I thought two huge vehicles ganging up to bully someone like that was particularly despicable. In general, eveybody likes to think they're civilized, and polite, and high class, but making them wait in a long line is always the number one indicator that really shows you who has class and home training and who doesn't.
So what does he do? Gets a little threatening, tries to squeeze into my lane, as I'm passing him. As soon as I'm past, he puts the high beams on me. So I tap the brakes repeatedly, just enough to make the lights flash but without actually slowing down, my way of saying knock it off. He doesn't, so I gradually slow down.
Traffic was heavy enough on either side that there was no way he was going aroud me. Probably finally got him down to about 15-20 mph or so, but he never turned off the high beams. I should've brought him down to a complete stop, but figured it wasn't worth the aggravation. Besides, there was an incline coming up, and I know that at his speed, he wouldn't be able to accelerate much.
Okay, so maybe that was mean of me, but hey, it felt good at the time! ;-) Now normally, I try to give buses and big trucks the benefit of the doubt, and a wide berth, but this guy deserved a lesson teaching and, well, class was in session that evening!
Finally some reconstruction got going in the 90's but most of it needed to be done long ago and there are still too many bottlenecks and cloverleaf interchanges from the 60's.
They are finally planning what to do about the 70/71 split downtown where the two freeways merge for about a mile. That was some brilliant thinking. Lets take two major traffic arteries and put them together for a short distance, and we'll make it only 3 lanes wide. Let's make the people traveling ont I-71 all funnel into a 1 lane exit ramp and make them move over 2 lanes thru the I-70 traffic within a half mile to continue. And, let's make all the westbound I-70 traffic merge down to 1 lane to continue thru. Lets put some exit and entrance ramps into this half mile stretch as well.
Maybe we need a new topic, inconsiderate traffic engineers...
Mass chaos and it drags the average speed through that section way down. Then throw in the left-lane entrance and you've got slow traffic trying to merge into the fastest lane. It boggles the mind as to why they do this on highways.
In regards to left turn off lanes. It is almost a total fact of life in Los Angeles to have left, left turn off lanes. Some places have multiple separate destinations left turn off lanes. Add to that multiple destination right turn off lanes... fun!
The reconstruction of the Marquette Interchange in downtown Milwaukee (where I94, I43 and I794 all meet) is designed to, in addition to keeping overpasses from falling down, eliminate all left lane exits. Lovers of left lane exits need not fret, however, as there is still is a beloved exit on WB I94 for the Miller Park.
It is the most obvious way for out-of-towners to access the primary parking lots for the Park and it's very, very odd, considering the state's donation to the building of the Park was $50M or so in infrastructure construction...most of which was basically moving an entire section of US 41. I imagine those who live in Milwaukee know of much easier ways to get there. I can get around Milwaukee, but none immediately come to mind.
Keying a car because you don't like the way someone parked is about as cowardly an act as there is. Besides that it is criminal. It is a form of vigilante justice. Attend an anger management class instead.
Attend an anger management class instead.
The space hog needs parking school. The upset space hunter doesn't need anger management.
If a proud owner wants to park far away from the store entrance and park their "baby" in two spaces where visitors/customers don't usually park, that's one thing. If they don't want to park properly in a crowded area, take a cab.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
(sorry about the strange post)
I had to quit driving a particularly enjoyable stretch of road because of school buses cutting the corners across the center line, and running me off the shoulder. And this is on a 35mph posted road! They stop in the middle of a two lane road, which they aren't supposed to do. I'
ve had them run red lights, even after the opposite has gone green. I had one stop oncoming traffic, to let another out of a side street, cutting me off. There were kids on the bus, I could see their little faces bunched up in horrer, as I repaved the road with my tires, so I wouldn't hit them. They are constantly speeding on the roads, makes you wonder if they are off duty cops. I think my kids will be getting the "parents taxi service."
My father kept a ball on the hitch of his full size Dodge Van. It earned it's keep by repelling offenders. He said he never stopped for any incidents that may have happened, but he knows that he indirectly altered the front end of a handful of cars. Said most of the impacts weren't severe enough to warrant his attention. It was a wonderful frame mounted tow hitch, so the steel chrome bumper never showed any usage.
What about those yo yos who leave their turn signal on for miles, and even make opposite direction turns or lane changes? Makes you want to pull in front of them and return the favor.
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I parked his car as close to the emergency room as possible. I gave him his keys, and started walking him in. I got him about 2 feet inside and the staff grabbed him away from me immediately.
I went out to meet my brother for the drive home. That's when I noticed I had parked his car mostly in one of the spaces reserved for MD's - definitly not my best parking job.
Maybe some cowardly low-life keyed his car
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I understand your point.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
I have stopped to wait for some lady driver to back up so her car isn't sticking out into my lane on a multilane street around Dayton.
Sorry to the lady drivers who can tell the fact that the car sticks out 7 feet ahead of their steering wheel, but it is usually ladies who do this. Occasionally a pushy male in a hurry does it too.
Twenty-five years ago I got a long Lincoln Town Car a State Patrol ticket when he stuck his front end out into a narrow state highway at a T-intersection east of Cincinnati. I was being followed by a Trooper on his way to the post and this car had its front end two feet over the yellow line. I slowed down to a crawl and moved past him without crossing into the oncoming traffic lane. The Trooper courteously waved for him to pull on out onto the highway. Then he turned on his lights. I suspect the guy had been inbibing a little and ruined his depth perception.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
They fight over bypasses that could have been built long ago to benefit them or their friends in politics rather than getting bypasses built to alieviate the heavier traffic on three lane portions of the interstate. Dayton should have a diamond of bypasses done now, but only has one side in place. Part of the problem is at the state level politics.
When I lived east of Cincinnati the land had been bought up around the proposed path of the circle freeway by investors 'close' to the governor and his party. When the freeway was done, the developing started to their benefit.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Well, I stopped, threw it in reverse, and told her she was too far over the line and needed to back up. She used a few choice words with me, which naturally, I felt compelled to shoot back. I was delivering pizzas at the time.
See now, why my company preferred it when I DIDN'T drive with a sign on my roof! ;-)
One day in DC, I was walking with some friends, and a Crown Vic cab pulled up to the red light, right into the crosswalk, as I was in it! Actually he would've hit me if I hadn't been paying attention. I ended up jumping up onto his hood!
It can. Simply drive north through Lower MI and the UP. Of course, it depends on where you're going, but I'll give a real life example. I go to the NASCAR race at Michigan Intl Speedway, which is in Brooklyn, MI. I live 30 mi north of Green Bay, WI. It is nearly an equivalent amount of time to drive north through the UP of MI, over the bridge and south through Lower Michigan compared to driving south through WI, around the southern tip of Lake Michigan and east to Brooklyn. This year, we are going south because we plan on going through Chicago at 4am.
Or you could take the ferry from central Lower Michigan to east central Wisconsin. Saves something like 4 hours.
I won't try to justify it. Especially to someone who thinks it's okay to push people out of the way to get on the freeway.