It's true in LA that you have to pull as far into the intersection as possible to take the left just as the light turns yellow (and sometimes red), because no one will let you go, ever. And you need to pull up as far as you can so that you can take the dude behind you with you.
This is why the intersection near me (Sloat & 19th) is the intersection of death. Because people do this, and then get so excited that there is a break in the oncoming traffic that they go without looking to see if a pedestrian is crossing. There have been multiple accidents since I moved here just nine months ago.
oh gods i'm willingly going into a moshpit filled with teenies. i'm willingly going into a moshpit filled with teenies and i will be SOBER.
Oh my.
My friends and I are torn. In Philly at the Electric Factory the balcony is where the bar is. You have to be 21 to go up there... so if we're up there we're going to have
pleeeenty
of room.
And be very close because it isn't that high and hangs over the stage. We think Gerard needs a purple sparkley boa.
Looking at a trailer for Baby Mama. It's not the awful one I saw earlier, with the surrogate peeing in the bathroom sink, but lawd-a-mercy, that's funny?
Just saw her peeing in the sink. Decidedly unfunny.
Aims, Today doesn't have them listed as a guest, but I'm recording anyway.
Steph, of course you may show Grandparents and Lions to Big!Boss.
I am one of the timid drivers you all hate. This is one reason why I don't drive.
I wonder why driving makes people so rageful? I mean, I rarely see grocery store shopping cart rage. Now I am trying to think of other situations where people have to deal with lots of random strangers at varying skill levels and take turns and stuff.
I,too am a timid driver who doesn't really drive anymore. I avoid making left turns if ther is no arrow. I turn right and drive around the block.
In Boston, this is grounds for an Early Green Left, i.e., as soon as the light turns green (in the absence of a specific left-turn arrow), if you are the first car in line, take your left before the guy coming straight the other way has the opportunity to get in your way.
Nutty is so right, not least of which because in Boston (and Mass in general), you also have to worry about the drivers who speed up when the light is turning yellow, even though they are a good distance from the intersection. Often times two or three cars will flat-out run the red as well. It's all well and good to say "well, then they are the ones at fault", but not much use if you've been t-boned by a car that was speeding up.
I'm pretty sure it's this kind of behavior that put Matt off of driving in Boston ever again.
Aims, Today doesn't have them listed as a guest, but I'm recording anyway.
Thank you honey! MWAH MWAH MWAH
One thing I particularly disliked about Boston traffic was the delayed green -- that is to say, one side of the intersection would get the green light before the other, to give left-turners time to go. Why would I hate this, you say, when it seems so helpful? There was no way to know when you were at one. Like a lot of things about Boston, they seemed to assume that either you'd been doing this exact thing for the last 15 years or you just shouldn't be there anyway.
I will say I've noticed a lot of work being done in Boston on the traffic lights the last few years (probably due to the Big Dig), and when they've done substantial work, they usually put some sort of left turn arrow in these days. Finally learning I guess.
So I guess, the moral is, if you know of a particularly nasty left without an arrow, arrange to do some damage to the traffic lights.
