Posted on 08/29/2014 10:08:43 AM PDT by C19fan
...ya just can’t get around this town.”
Believe Houston added 250,000 people in the last few years plus probably another 250K illegals. Watch the traffic reports from the 290 area every morning. Why would anyone live out there and go into the city to work? Going to be a real trip if we have another hurricane and the newbies have to evacuate, particularly since they have put all that crazy barrier fencing down the middle of the median to keep us from creating our own contraflow lanes.
Thankfully, I live and work in the Clear Lake area.
No offense taken. I agree with you!
My understanding is that Santa Fe had to start hiring
Green Card Mexican Nationals to be their police officers...
no one else could “afford” to live there at the pay scale the city provided.
Family and I spent one night(2001) in Tierra Amarilla...famous for a 1967 “raid” led by Reises Tijerina (a Texan)-I will not involve myself in their local politics...
But the People of Tierra Amarilla are wonderful people and
treated my family well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_Amarilla,_New_Mexico
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reies_Tijerina
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alianza_Federal_de_Mercedes
People in Pittsburgh will very often allow you to go in front of them if you are trying to leave a parking lot or enter congested traffic. Does not happen in too many cities that I know.
One thing Pittsburgh drivers do that drives others nuts is if they are driving down the street and see someone they know, they will roll their window down and stop for s 3 or 4 minute chat. If you happen to be behind them, you wait.
A somewhat quaint custom, it drives Mrs. Buckeye (who grew up in Detroit) absolutely insane.
Two amusing things I noticed on a few visits to the Boston area
-— You see some guys with snowplow blades still on their SUVs and trucks in May. To put fear in the other bumper car contestants
-— When snow falls...On the major highways you see guys going as fast as they can in their 4x drive vehicles to show how fearless and tough they are
there is a period between those two sentences.
No you wait and do not enter the intersection because you want to get that left turn in.
I;ve seen many many crashes because of these idiots which do this, and especially those idiots which try and take that left turn and beat the oncoming traffic.
LOL not heard that name for some time. People in NH used to call them that.
you are driving down a two lane highway north bound . The vehicle in front is going much slower and you then signal to go into the left lane.
Next minutes the vehicle which is about 50 ft away then speeds up as soon as they see your signal.
I know using signals is very strange for people in Boston but some of us who happen to drive for a living do happen to drive as we should and understands that we are not the only vehicle on the road.
There are some nice people around, to be sure, but there are still some odd things going on up there. Google the town of Dulce (which is the center of the Jicarilla Apache reservation), and see what comes up! Make sure your tinfoil hat is on nice and tight.
Hwy 288 is bumper to bumper each morning from the Medical Center to Pearland.”
My son makes that trip up 288 to the city and back every day along with about a gazillion other people. TXDOT was at one of our local meetings and we raised the question of putting a train right up the middle of 288 to connect to the one that ends on Fannin now. One of the TXDOT guys said there wasn’t enough traffic on 288 to warrant a train into the city. So now they’re going to widen it and add toll roads.
They do want to put a train up the middle of Highway 35 from Pearland to Hobby Airport though because their study shows it will be well utilized. These people are all loons.
Wasn’t Boston where that terrorist ran over his own brother/passenger?
Completely agree that Boston/Worchester/Springfield MA drivers are the worst of the worst. Every car in Boston has a dent. Who cuts me off while driving in CT? 90% of the time it is a car with MA plates. Not sure why they’re so bad, but I’ve always thought that if you’re too stupid to put a Kennedy in the Senate for a few decades, then perhaps you’re too dimwitted to operate a vehicle.
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Many years ago I got a book at Logan to pass the time. It was called “Wild in the Streets” and it was a local book about Boston driving. I never laughed so hard in my life.
You might be surprised, but that's the standard protocol for making a left turn in California. It's actually taught in the driving schools out there. Done correctly, that method of making a left turn keeps the traffic moving much better than waiting at the line for clearance to turn.
If you stop and think about it for a moment, it actually makes sense, because in dense urban areas with heavy traffic, cars really will get stuck at red lights unless (at least) a few cars advance at each turn of the traffic light.
That's not so much a problem where there are signals with a left turn arrow, but lots of intersections don't have them.
I was taught by one of those "official" driving schools (in Indiana), back in the early 70's, that pulling into an intersection was proper. Keep wheels pointed straight, in case you are rear ended, but pull right into the middle of the intersection if the light is green. Rationale is that your turn is shorter/safer that way, and the flow of traffic you are in will move along better.
Kids took driver's ed in the past few years (in Maine), they were taught the same (to pull into the intersection).
Q: Should I Pull Into the Intersection When I'm Turning Left?
Intersections and Turns | New York State DMV
It’s like being bi-lingual, I revert to “normal” driving when I leave NYC, but here in the Big Apple, using your signals when your in traffic (which here is pretty much all the time) all but ensures that you’ll stay stuck in whatever lane you are in until some Good Samaritan decides to NOT speed up to block your entrance to whatever lane you want to enter ... which can often take a long time.
LOL, that is so true.
Once I get down here the driving becomes less stressful, it is like you said being bilingual .
They have never driven in Pittsburgh. Tailgating is the city favorite sport. and turn signal use don’t exist. If you use your turn signal is only causes confusion.
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