In my area this is one of my top pet peeves. The stupid drivers are not rising in rage against the politicians but they are mad just the same. Complain to each other and then vote over 80% Dem each time here.
Apologist in local newspaper said:”Yes the roads are near gridlock for 2 to 2.5 hours each rush hour direction twice a day. But instead of blaming the traffic blame yourself. Think “I am to blame for sitting in a car instead of taking a bike or the bus. It’s my own fault.”——What a barf fest.
Although I have anger issues and I am a misanthrope for just such reasons, I love my wife, President Trump and his supporters including on Free Republic. My lifeline to this cruel world’s people.
As the bestselling weird New Age writer Esther Hicks said: People are against you for having anger because it is inconvenient and uncomfortable for their selfish purposes. So true.
“. . .instead of taking a bike or the bus.”
This is a good example of the bogus nature of this. On one of the streets that they shrunk for bike lanes, we had previously had to go through a couple of years of construction while they built a semi-dedicated bus lane. Although it was a pain to go through (each one of the bus stops had to be hardened with a concrete pad), afterwards it was great. The buses had their own lane and cars had two lanes (one for through traffic and the other one that could be used by left-hand turners). And the bus traffic efficiently got to work as well as the vehicles (average trip time for us about 30 minutes). Now with shrinking the lanes for bike lanes there are only two lanes for vehicular traffic, one with the risk of left-turners and the others that have to be shared by cars and buses. The result, in addition to drivers constantly trying to weave back and forth between the two lanes, is that the buses are caught in the same traffic jam as everyone else. And that 30 minute trip is now turned into 45 minutes for both cars and buses.