I’d like to report that on my drive from St. Louis to Dayton today, there were very few maniacs on the road. They were all on the shoulder with a police car behind them. There were cops everywhere. Sheesh. I’ve never seen so many. Must be trying to close the budget gap.
Oh, I forgot about the crap icing on the shit cake that is school zones here - they aren’t in effect right now since school is not in session, and NOW the drivers around me have decided to obey them. I get tailgated (and passed illegally) in them every day when they are in force, and people lolllygag along when they aren’t. READ THE FUCKING SIGNS, PEOPLE! SCHOOL ZONE IS 30 KPH FROM 7:30 AM TO 17:00 PM SCHOOL DAYS! When school is out, it is not a school day! And yes, they do this on Saturdays and Sundays and evenings, too. It’s enough to make me want to get a rocket launcher.
I do not understand why people won’t stop for pedestrians. Yesterday, I nearly got hit as I was in the crosswalk by a speeder. I was already in the crosswalk and this driver speeds up to the crosswalk and stops in the crosswalk almost hitting me and acts like I’m at fault.
What the heck?
I never, ever step in to the crosswalk unless I make sure the driver(s) see me. Yes, they should be stopping, but if they don’t see you and you just assume, the car wins that battle.
The car saw me though.
I was already halfway across the crosswalk.
I hit the button that signaled the pedestrian crossing lights.
I guess if you were already half way across, then you couldn’t really do much.
But my point about making sure drivers see you before you cross still applied to controlled cross walks. Some people are oblivious/playing with the radio/on the phone and don’t see the lights.
One example from two days ago. I use an entrance ramp with two lanes - one for people driving east who want to get on the ramp, and one for those going west. No merges, everything nice and quiet. Some moron in an SUV, coming from the east, decided he didn’t want to wait in line and drove the full length of the striped area between these lanes and pushed in in front of a probably startled driver. I think this is the most obnoxious act I’ve seen in over 40 years of driving, and I used to live in Boston.
So, I hear there’s a lot of crazy driving in Boston..
especially when the Red Sox are in town. 