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[quote=Anonymous]As an occasional freeway driver (maybe once a week, or a few times a month) consistently both before and after Covid, my impression is that the average speed and behavior is about the same, but I've seen a definite uptick in the number of crazy people who will weave through traffic going 85, and the people doing dangerous things seem to be doing more dangerous things than pre-Covid.

Like pre-Covid, maybe once every 2 or 3 times I drove on these rides (395, 66, 495, very rarely 270), I'd see someone going very clearly too fast, changing lanes withouts signaling, or some other dumb thing. Now it's pretty much every time I go, and I also see absolutely insane behavior like people cutting across three lanes while going 75 to access an exit, cars pulling into lanes between two cars that are both currently braking, cars using the shoulders on both sides to pass cars that are going the speed limit (so not even to get around someone going too slow but just out of impatience/entitlement). It's disturbing and I actually recently decided to go out of may to avoid driving freeways whenever I can because I feel like it's only a matter of time before one of these idiots gets me killed or seriously injured.

I've also seen more ridiculous behavior on surface streets, but drivers have consistently done insane things on surface streets in DC since I moved here 20 years ago so that's less surprising. I also rarely drive around DC (even less than I drive on freeways), so generally I'm just observing this from the sidewalk or inside a building.

Still, people are crazy. Impatience, rude, risk-taking, impulsive, angry. I think the whole region needs therapy.[/quote]

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