Buffy ,'Beneath You'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
My favorite is 35 meeting up with 30 and 75. It's all, "Chane lanes! Now! To the right! 10 seconds to get all the way to the left! Go! Go! Go!"
L.A. does this all the time. It's very disconcerting.
Also disconcerting in L.A. is portions of the 10 where the road is sort of slotted concrete; when the sun hits it the right way, you can't see the lane markings-- you try to follow the slotted paving, but that just drifts you into a new lane.
I hate driving in L.A.
I have a theory that at least some of the not-signalling happens because getting through traffic is an antagonistic process with eth other drivers as your enemies, and so you don't want to give them the valuable intel that you're about to move into their lane.
Bumper sticker: "Using your turn signal is not giving information to the enemy"
Scariest sight recently - standing on the corner on my narrow, residential, one-way street watching someone going too fast the wrong way. In reverse.
Also disconcerting in L.A. is portions of the 10 where the road is sort of slotted concrete; when the sun hits it the right way, you can't see the lane markings-- you try to follow the slotted paving, but that just drifts you into a new lane.
They mostly just never repaint the lanes here.
Have I mentioned recently how happy I am that I don't have to drive?
Yeah, and before Videogames there was Hawaii 5-0 to blame it on. There is a certain percentage of the population who becomes assholes behind the wheel regardless of personality under other circumstances.
Incidentally I have a question about the study where x percentage of driver violate the speed limit. Does the percentage change as the speed limit increases? I have 55 mph highways and 75 mph within a few miles of each other. And it looks to me like every time I move from the 55 mph segment to the 75 mph segment, all the people who were going 75 mph in the 55 mph zone speed up some more when they enter the 75 mph zone.
Rt 128 in MA is also more dangerous because it was built on the cheap (governor's non-civil-engineer brother in charge) and in most cases the acceleration lane for merging traffic is ALSO the deceleration lane for outgoing traffic, all like in 150 feet of highway posted at 55 MPH and running up to 75 MPH in practice.
standing on the corner on my narrow, residential, one-way street watching someone going too fast the wrong way. In reverse.
Had this this morning, except the road is a narrow two-lane with parking on either side. Oh, and it's a hill with a 25% grade. Oh, and it was a DUMPTRUCK.
GAH.
There's a bridge from DC to Alexandria where you can find yourself having to cross all 4 lanes of traffic in the brief span it takes to cross to the Potomac, if you're coming from DC and going S in VA.
Also, in CT they have this lovely rural highway (the Merritt Parkway) that everyone flies along (because they're all driving beemers and saabs) and it basically has no on-ramps, plus is hilly and tree-y. It's still a beautiful drive, but getting on is terrifying.