I always yield in those types of situations and it never fails that the moron behind me leans on the horn.

People around here are just terrible drivers. I see it everyday. The main road I drive is two lane 50 mph with no stop lights. People merging on at various points have a yield sign but they just continue without looking or stopping forcing the cars in main lanes to slow and yield or change lanes. This is not how it is supposed to work - cars in the main lane have the right away.

Yield means stopping if you have to.

People are driving badly today.

It's like they can't handle light rain and gray; I saw a SUV blow by me, stopped at a red light, and almost made a left turn into oncoming traffic. They stopped just before getting hit.

Everytime it rains or is gray outside here, same story. I really don't understand.

That's some final destination shit. You're about to die. Spend all your money and finalize your will before the end of the week.

Rest in peace OP.

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Anonymous wrote:On the way to drop my kids of at school. One car totally blew through a stop sign. Another pulled out of a side street and almost side swiped me. The last time was people not knowing to stop on a blinking red light while I was trying to cross Connecticut.

Do you think that overall heightened anxiety is causing people to be more distracted?

Nah. Its just drivers being drivers. You just got unlucky.

We probably need to reconsider building roads until the driver community can get all drivers to obey the law.

Employment demands in this area mean we have to stay connected. The "work-day" begins when you wake up around here.

Maybe you should invest in a high visibility pedestrian vest and a larger vehicle, OP.

Whoosh! (I'm not the OP, BTW)

You must be new around here, DCUM abhors you if you have a vehicle larger than a Prius.

You can’t drive because you are thinking about the virus? The virus doesn’t drive a vehicle...

Anonymous wrote:I've seen an increasing number of drivers apparently thinking that red lights are optional. Especially on controlled turns with a red arrow - they seem to think "red" means "yellow" now.

Bus-riders can see when drivers are looking at their phones. And guess what, a whole lot of drivers are looking at their phones.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On the way to drop my kids of at school. One car totally blew through a stop sign. Another pulled out of a side street and almost side swiped me. The last time was people not knowing to stop on a blinking red light while I was trying to cross Connecticut.

Do you think that overall heightened anxiety is causing people to be more distracted?

Nah. Its just drivers being drivers. You just got unlucky.

We probably need to reconsider building roads until the driver community can get all drivers to obey the law.

Employment demands in this area mean we have to stay connected. The "work-day" begins when you wake up around here.

Maybe you should invest in a high visibility pedestrian vest and a larger vehicle, OP.

Drivers in this area hit school buses. I guess they're not hi-vis/big enough?

I've seen an increasing number of drivers apparently thinking that red lights are optional. Especially on controlled turns with a red arrow - they seem to think "red" means "yellow" now.

Anonymous wrote:I almost got hit by a school bus driver today. If my kid wasn't in the car I would have let her hit me and sued the hell out of their insurance company.

Yeah take one for the team.

OP and in rereading my post I see I made an error in not being clear. I was in my car, not on foot.