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It's everywhere and it's worse here! Posted by Saabpilot [Email]  (#134) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Saabpilot) on Thu, 23 Dec 2004 12:20:35
In Reply to: Is it me? or holiday drivers just suck, Russell Giuliano, Thu, 23 Dec 2004 10:51:07 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
As a displaced East Coaster (12 years in Ohio now) and as a person who through business travel has driven in nearly every major metropolitan area of this country, I have to honestly say that my humble home of Columbus, Ohio has the worst drivers I have ever seen. And yes, it gets dramatically worse in snow and during the holidays. Although East coast driving is tough you usually know where you stand and everyone kind of drives the same. It's aggressive.
But here the kind of things you described happen every day. People doing left turns on red lights because they just feel they have to go. People not using turn signals. People just stopping right in the middle of the interstate because they're lost. I could go on and on with the ridiculous things I've seen here. Having no State inspection process for cars doesn't help. If it moves it's legal to drive here.
For a long time I thought it was just me but I've seen a couple of newspaper editorials from other displaced East coasters here who have said the same thing. I think here it's a problem because this city is a melting pot - about 50% of the people are from somewhere else or from "the country." Don't get me wrong, I grew up in "the country" but when you come to the big city to live you should learn how to drive in the big city traffic.
And don't even talk to me about inclement weather! Never in my life have I seen any place where people drive so badly in inclement weather. There can be sprinkles, not even serious rain and people will go 35 MPH on the interstates. Serious rain means massive traffic jams and stopped cars on the interstate. Snow and ice like we just got yesterday, wow, it's unbelievable.
My best defense, not only to keep my cars intact but to keep my sanity intact has been just to take it in stride, not get keyed up (ok, sometimes I do) and to give rather than take when I'm on the roads around here.
But you are correct, people drive worse during the holiday shopping rush, or maybe it's just the fact that there are more of them on the roads at the same time than usual.
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