Posted on 07/27/2019 7:40:35 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Baltimore drivers are just the worst. Again. For the second straight year, Allstate ranked Baltimore drivers last out of those in the country’s 200 largest cities, adjusting for population density and precipitation.
The city dropped into the bottom slot last year in the annual Best Driver’s Report — based on the average number of claims per driver and the company’s Drivewise app, which monitors driver behavior — after being ranked second-worst in 2017...
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Wow. But if you increased the population density to about that of Boston, whose roads are often former cow paths, then that would change.
Boston, Mass.
MassHoles
... Allstate is racist!
Nah... You’re In Good Hands With Allstate /sarc
Got a ways to go, though. The ten northernmost counties in Idaho have a combined population under 400,000. In big cities, you have that many within spitting radius.
As a lifelong Detroit area resident who moved to Maryland 10 years ago, it’s not just Baltimore.
Last night, I was driving a F-150 pulling a large trailer, fortunately it was empty. There was a car on the roadside with no lights on. As I got about 50 feet behind it, the driver whipped the door open and stepped out right in front of me. The lane next to me was somewhat clear, I swerved to the left and the trailer swung wide. Fortunately it was empty and didn’t roll.
A large portion of the reason is that the state gives a driver permit after passing a 10 question test. They then drive 50 hours under parental supervision (generations of bad driving skills) then they take driver ed.
Just flat stupid.
We lived in the Tampa area for two years for my husband’s job and couldn’t wait to get out! Between Cootsters running red lights and stop signs and invisible drivers (those who couldn’t see over the steering wheel) driving huge Cadillacs and Lincolns, I didn’t think we would get out of Florida alive. Never want to go back!
The Turnpike was a good experience. Everyone was doing 5 to 10 over the limit, just like Michigan. Toll was expensive, though.
The legislature created the Ohio Turnpike Commission in a 1949 law that included a provision to dissolve the agency when the construction bonds issued to build the 241-mile roadway would be paid off in 1992.
But in 1990, the turnpike commission and its lobbyists convinced the legislature to keep the tolls on and to allow the agency to operate indefinitely.
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