Lol thats me

 

I hate it when a fat SUV or truck is in the left hand lane taking their time and you are stuck behind them in traffic and when the lane on your right opens up and you see if any cars are in front of the truck, there is ABSOLUTELY NO TRAFFIC in front of the truck.

 

Maybe I should clarify
In Los Angeles, it's ok to turn left on a red, because there are hardly any left turn signals in all of LA County. Even cops will honk at you if you don't run the red light to turn left.

Turning left on a red is also slightly (albeit probably only slightly) different then turning right on a red.

When the signal turns red, there is usually always a cusion before the other lights turn green. And everyone expects 3 cars to run the red to turn left. I'm not talking about running the red when it's been red for a while already.

Right turns that have no turn on red, usually have the no turn on red signs for a reason. Usually because there is traffic coming from more than one direction simultaneously, or because it's a blind curve, train tracks, etc.

FWIW, the no turn on red fiasco I was talking about, was in Oregon. Home of stupid/idiotic laws. Such as the recently passed 24/7 Enforcement of School Zones

Besides, I was talking about left turn on red, when there is no left turn signal... As in the kind where left turn yields to oncomming traffic. The no turn on red, has a right turn signal. If there is a left/right turn signal, I never run the red. Because you will get your turn. If there is no left turn signal, and you wait for an opening, you could seriously end up waiting half a day before you go. Especially in LA.

 

In Los Angeles, it's ok to turn left on a red, because there are hardly any left turn signals in all of LA County. Even cops will honk at you if you don't run the red light to turn left.

Um, not to be nitpicking but in CA you can turn "right" on red unless there is a sign posted saying you cannot. Also, you have to come to a full stop like at a stop sign.

When making a left hand turn, you may turn on green or amber and red "only" if you were yielding to an oncoming vehicle and have already engaged the intersection. Otherwise, if you engage a left turn before you get to the intersection and the light is red, the following may happen:

1. Get cited for running a red light
2. Intersection cameras will snap a nice photo of you = $270 minimum
3. You will get side swiped

Just FYI. My buddy just did his online traffic school for making a left on red.

 

When your about to exit and some *** comes flying by you on the left lane and cuts into the offramp just before it ends and misses your bumper by a few inches...

 

...or when someone is at a red light wanting to turn right, they see you coming from the left a mile away, they wait....wait....wait....and then turn in front of you at the last moment when they could have turned like 50 seconds ago.

 

Here in Philly we have the Scukill expressway with a lot of left merge entrances. When I lived in FLA I could never understand why people would get to the end of the entrance ramp (only occasionally) and slam on the brakes to LOOK for other cars. This is FLA with 2 mile long entrance ramps!

Then I realized when I got to PA that all those people learned to drive in Philly on the Shukill. Here everyone stops and looks because there is little visibility until you are about out of room to accelerate. I still think accelerating to speed and making the small adjustement to get in front or behind someone is the way to go BUT EVERYONE STOPS. I wait for a minute until people get on in front of me and then I have soom room too zoom but people FREAK because you let a space develop between you and the car in front of you. They want that 50 yards so they can then STOP again.

Usually people let you in when you do a full speed approach but some are diks and you just deal and brake hard. The worst are the folks who pull almost into the left lane, stop, freak out the oncoming traffic or worse just pull into the lane and then cause a frikkin near 80 car pileup becasue they have no depth perception or oncoming speed perception.

Also hate people who brake for no reason on the Hiway and I HATE people who need a 1/8 mile buffer zone should the come upon a slight delay or slow down. PEOPLE: If you slow down ANY faster than the people in front of you you create a ripple effect going back for miles in heavy traffic. This is why the conshohocken curve is backed up EVERY SINGLE DAY...not to mention you have little forward visibility at 70 mph sometimes as you wind around a blind curve.

The most common is the left lane drifter doing 50 in a 70 while chatting and not even caring that every person going by honks and flips them off. Get over if you need to chat at drive slow.

Left lane discipline should be taught and it is not here. IF they built an autobahn here it would have a hundred firey crashes a week. And I love when 2 cars go down kelly drive at the same exact speed for 10 miles next to each other so you can't get by at 35. This is the best road to drive anywhere in town and people just drift into your lane and lose conscienseness apparently. Why can't people learn the rules of the road!

I need to take the train again LOL

 

Yeah I know. I did say there were signs posted right

Which is probably where that magical "3" came from, as you can fit 2-3 cars in the intersection, in many of the busier streets in LA. Do they have red-light cameras in LA? When I lived there (94-98), the had a few in Beverly Hills on LaCienga, but they ripped them all out, because somebody sued the city and won, because the CA drivers code explicitely defines "driver", such that issuing a ticket to the registered owner was deemed to be illegal. (this was in 96' or so, so it may have changed)

But anyways... To add another one... I hate people that caboose a stop sign. You know, you get to a stop sign, and the guy next to you stops, then goes. Then the 2 or 3 cars behind him, tailgate each other across the intersection without bothering to stop at the stop sign.

 

Speaking of freeway onramps. I never understand people that drive down the freeway on-ramp, then come to a complete stop at the end, and wait for an opening, meanwhile everyone behind slams on their brakes to avoid hitting the idiot.

 

I hate all highways in my area...

Long Island Expressway -Worlds largest parking lot.

Clearview Expressway- more cops than cockroaches.

Grand Central Parkway- decent but still cop infested.

I also hate Francis Lewis BLVD with all the rice burners who think they can take me.

Anybody who lives around here should know how I feel.

P.S. I hate POTHOLES. NYC sucks because of the potholes.

 

I hate it when people drive right next to you even if there is not a lot of traffic. It's a safety issue, really. I think they call it side "cushion", in case you need to swerve into the next lane for emergency. If you're going the same speed as me, then move up or drop back. But don't drive right next to me!!

Also, this doesn't happen often, but it happened to me the other day and it really pi$$ed me off. There was some traffic and I happened to be in a lane where there was a car stalled. So everyone had to change lanes. So there's a car in front of me and the driver (OK! I didn't want to sound chauvanistic, but it was a woman!!) and she wouldn't change lanes. So I see a gap. She doesn't move. Another gap. Doesn't move. Yet another gap. Still doesn't move. Finally, I say, screw it! next gap, I'm going. So what happens? As soon as I start making my move, she changes lanes. I almost friggin' hit her, and I had to slam on the brakes. My car stalled out 'cuz I didn't have time to slap it into neutral. Really friggin' pi$$ed me off!!

 

Well, considering this just happened... it's raining out here and this guy comes flying out of a street running a stop sign and almost hits me so I slowed down and then passed him. I guess this pissed him off and he starts to tailgate my *** so I speed up and he continues to tailgate me. So I'm like whatever, I'm not gonna put my baby in danger and keep speeding up. So he finally backs off a bit and I slow down to turn and he speeds up then slams his breaks realizing that I'm slowing down for a turn.. I hear SKEEEERRCHHHHHHH, the guy hydroplanes and and when I realized this I stepped on the gas VDC turned on I was like oh crap.. my baby is gone.. the guy finally comes to stop and I gotta say.. he HAD to have been atleast inches from my bumper.. I almost had a heart attack...

^ I HATE IT WHEN JACKASSES DO STUPID **** LIKE THIS!! Doing it in any other weather wouldn't bother me so much.. but in the rain?! Come on now.. common sense. Obviously he had none.

 

When I find a person tailgating me, what I do is slow down and blatantly look in the rear view mirror so that they know that I notice wtf they're doing. Normally they'll back off.

And I've heard people tapping on their breaks to scare the **** out of the person that's tailgating them...but that seems too dangerous hehe.

 

I hate SUV's because whenever I am behind one, I can never see anything in front of me except for its big ugly butt. Oh, yeah I have another one. I hate it when you are at a light and a pedestrian is crossing the street when the light suddenly turns green and he is taking his time strolling across. He knows the light is green and is not even attempting to hurry to cross. Sometimes they give you this look like "I dare you run over me." That pisses me off cuz you are kind enough to let them cross and they give you this attitude. Damn, I'll scare them like I am going to run them over next time!