Driving is hard...WTF is wrong with people?

[owc6]

Originally Posted by KenHorse

Exactly

I remember when I moved to Kalifornication from the Philly area and was amazed you could turn right on a red light after coming to a stop.

PA wasn't like that in 1973

I learned to drive in California, and was taught that unless there was a sign that said no turn on red, it's legal after stopping.

I'd probably get in trouble in PA.

[6spdC6]

Originally Posted by Yadkin

The feds forced Massachusetts to adopt right turn on red after they fought against it for years. When they finally caved, they put NO TURN ON RED signs at every intersection.

Dam we had that same sort of bullshit in Schenectady NY. They bought thousands of signs & hardware and spent tons of taxpayer money because the old timers that ran that shithole did not like right on red. After a while it hit the court system and the city lost. More of the taxpayers money spent to remove the signs!

At that time I lived only a couple miles from that city so I was in it often..

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by KenHorse

Exactly

I remember when I moved to Kalifornication from the Philly area and was amazed you could turn right on a red light after coming to a stop.

PA wasn't like that in 1973

NYS wasn't either then, but we've had right on red for 30+ years now, I'm guessing.

I don't know how to Google, so I'm sure someone will look it up and correct me.

[NoOne]

Originally Posted by LATB

Airstream doesn't make a 40 footer. Only the Basecamp or small Bambi Airstream models are probably ok to tow with a Colorado.

"What had to be"...it was huge, almost twice the length.

Originally Posted by KenHorse

That and getting stuck behind some asshole in the left turn lane who just sits there when the light turns green instead of pulling half way out into the intersection

(a pet peeve of mine)

That was always done in Michigan but about 3 years ago now nobody wants to. Me honking incessantly usually gets them to scoot up.

[NoOne]

The only no turn on red in Michigan is usually if it's a blind view.

[Datawiz]

Originally Posted by KenHorse

I've noticed that drivers seem to be getting worse than they used to be.

I blame Brandon

I blame cell phones.

[NoOne]

Originally Posted by Datawiz

I blame cell phones.

People have some obsession about talking on the actual phone. I see a ton of brand new cars that for sure have BT but they are on the phone.

Biggest offender...women usually in some massive SUV for all their crotch monsters using one hand to turn left in a stretch Escalade who then LET GO OF THE WHEEL to reposition their hand instead of putting down the phone.

[Unsuspicious]

We have these signs that say "Slower traffic keep right" but they're just in black and white. We need them to be yellow at least and with a machine gun turret to enforce

[Tikiman]

I love the people who don't know what the white lines at intersections are for. So they pull through it until the white line is under their rear bumper. Then they wonder why they aren't getting a green.

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by NoOne

People have some obsession about talking on the actual phone. I see a ton of brand new cars that for sure have BT but they are on the phone.

Biggest offender...women usually in some massive SUV for all their crotch monsters using one hand to turn left in a stretch Escalade who then LET GO OF THE WHEEL to reposition their hand instead of putting down the phone.

I'm rarely around traffic, but I thought everyone was using BT now except for me . . . ? A buddy of mine, who is way less techy than I am, even uses BT.

I've never hooked mine up in any vehicles, cuz I don't want phone calls while I'm driving. If it's someone I know who calls, I'll call them back when it's convenient.

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by 6spdC6

Dam we had that same sort of bullshit in Schenectady NY. They bought thousands of signs & hardware and spent tons of taxpayer money because the old timers that ran that shithole did not like right on red. After a while it hit the court system and the city lost. More of the taxpayers money spent to remove the signs!

At that time I lived only a couple miles from that city so I was in it often..

Massachusetts did/ does a lot of ****ed-up things to keep cars idling on the roads instead of proceeding along efficiently.

In 1970, the governor issued a moratorium on new highway construction within Rte. 128. Projects under construction were abandoned for decades.

Local towns are allowed to set the speed limits on non-limited access highways. If the residents don't like the traffic, then they just set the limits retardedly low.

One of the four-lane parkways that I used to travel through Arlington, I forget the name, had numerous at-grade intersections at fairly regular intervals. It made it easy for the traffic engineers to time the lights so you could proceed through at the 45 mph posted speed with few delays. Then one day, during the late 80s, the town decided to time the lights to deter traffic. They even had signs made: "LIGHTS TIMED FOR FREQUENT STOPS".

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by Unsuspicious

We have these signs that say "Slower traffic keep right" but they're just in black and white. We need them to be yellow at least and with a machine gun turret to enforce

Black on white is a legal sign (you shall obey or risk fines); yellow is merely a caution side or suggestion. I agree with the machine gun installation.

I was just in Arkansas and they use stronger language: LEFT LANE FOR PASSING ONLY. People still ignore it.

[KenHorse]

Originally Posted by Yadkin

Black on white is a legal sign (you shall obey or risk fines); yellow is merely a caution side or suggestion. I agree with the machine gun installation.

I was just in Arkansas and they use stronger language: LEFT LANE FOR PASSING ONLY. People still ignore it.

Here in Orygun, the statutes are quite clear about semis NEVER allowed in the fast lane

Guess what happens all the time....

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by KenHorse

Here in Orygun, the statutes are quite clear about semis NEVER allowed in the fast lane

Guess what happens all the time....

In most states that's only when there are at least three lanes in that direction.

[Yadkin]

The I81 corridor in Pennsylvania has turned into an inland port, where goods and raw materials are delivered, I think much by rail from out west, to new, huge factories/ warehouses. Then trucks bring the finished goods to markets throughout the east coast. This has turned I81 into tractor-trailer central. On my last trip I counted about two trucks for every passenger vehicle.

I81 through Virginia is a series of undulating hills. These truckers will start a pass on a downhill section, only to be stalled at the next uphill section. Traffic will be slowed to 10, 15 under the posted speed.

[GTOguy]

Originally Posted by Tikiman

I play golf with a retired doctor. He told me that more than 50% of the people out there are walking around on some form of happy pill or other. I believe that this is a large part of the problem that we are seeing.

Medication, legalized marijuana, and cell phones are why I haven't ridden my motorcycle in 4 years. Used to be I avoided night riding because of poor visibility and drunks. Now it's distracted, doped drivers 24/7, who learned to drive in cars that drove themselves. Not the 3 on the tree, manual steering/brake, bias ply tired, Nova or Satellite the rest of us here learned on.
Drivers under the age of 5o are clueless.

[KenHorse]

Originally Posted by Yadkin

In most states that's only when there are at least three lanes in that direction.

Along I5, there is

[Mike Mercury]

Originally Posted by NoOne

mysterious dead stop slow downs in the middle of no where

that's what I have noticed in the last couple years; slow downs and full stops... but nothing to pin it on. No accident, no road work, not during any of the rush hours

[Frankie the Fink]

If you’re sitting in a left turn lane hanging out in the intersection with wheels turned in anticipation of a quick turn and somebody nails you in the rear you are pushed into oncoming traffic. Defensive Driving 101

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by Frankie the Fink

If you’re sitting in a left turn lane hanging out in the intersection with wheels turned in anticipation of a quick turn and somebody nails you in the rear you are pushed into oncoming traffic. Defensive Driving 101

That's why you should keep the wheels straight.