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T Bowl posted:Mine is 37 miles and take 75 minutes on average in the morning and 95 minutes in the evening. yikes. what city?
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Statutory Ape posted:it's not that simple Kinda is for me. I'm single, childless and have no love for the exurbs (outside of the plethora of clean making GBS threads options). I really should have gotten my poo poo together and moved.
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Jan 13, 2020 20:49
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Chinatown posted:yikes. what city? Baltimore to DC and back.
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Jan 13, 2020 20:59
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My favorite thing about driving is when the person behind me uses their high beams as their default setting Then when I glance into my rear view mirror I risk being blinded
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Jan 13, 2020 21:00
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Several people have misread my initial post also, I am not saying to tailgate people at high rates of speed like some fuckwad. I hate that too and usually slow down to piss them off if they do that and there is no reason for it. I specifically meant when you are at a stop in some serious traffic where people need to fit in, not pulling forward is really dumb. I regularly see 3-4 cars in a row leaving 1-2 car spaces where other cars could have fit in if people just pulled up. It's like the rear end in a top hat who parallel parks with half a car length in front of them to the next car.
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Jan 13, 2020 21:18
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if a guy at the opposite end of a 4way goes straight do you go too
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Jan 13, 2020 22:03
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I wish more places would allow and encourage telecommuting. Not everything can be done remotely of course but enough that it would cut down on traffic, and those that must go in would have have less traffic to fight. My present job is really good about that, they let people work remote whenever they want, where my last job my boss thought working remote meant you were somehow stealing from the company.
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Jan 13, 2020 22:14
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sudonim posted:I wish more places would allow and encourage telecommuting. Not everything can be done remotely of course but enough that it would cut down on traffic, and those that must go in would have have less traffic to fight. i have trouble staying productive when i work remotely
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Jan 13, 2020 22:17
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I brake check tailgaters. 
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Jan 13, 2020 22:19
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Seizon posted:if a guy at the opposite end of a 4way goes straight do you go too i never trust turn signals or lack there-of if there's a chance i'll get hit too many stupid mother fuckers turning them on 6 turns behind the one they actually want, or not turning them on at all edit: I didn't obey this rule the other day when there were two cars back to back with right turn signals on, and I was trying to pull out in front of them. First guy was turning at my road, second guy went around the first guy to the left and floored it 
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Jan 13, 2020 22:22
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did anyone say road diet yet
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Jan 13, 2020 22:23
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Seizon posted:if a guy at the opposite end of a 4way goes straight do you go too Absolutely and gun it so you can get across before they have a chance to turn left. Also, a driver can jump in line in the stop sign rotation if another driver commits to a move that will block the person who would otherwise be next.
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Jan 13, 2020 23:08
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Seizon posted:if a guy at the opposite end of a 4way goes straight do you go too yeah, all the time. i think it's weirder when people don't. i've got places to be and i want to keep that poo poo moving for everyone behind you too; stop-signs can have a lot of traffic at them and it's not very efficient. most people here are generally decent at using turn-signals when there's people around at a stop-sign and stuff, but you can also generally read intent by how they're orienting their wheels or car. i purposely hold my car more towards the right when going straight just to let people instinctively know i'm not going left and it helps people get the courage to go straight too. Xaris fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Jan 13, 2020 |
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Jan 13, 2020 23:10
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Chinatown posted:I brake check tailgaters. I slow down to the speed limit.
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Woodpile posted:I slow down to the speed limit. Yeah I will also sometimes just coast and slow down and see how long it takes for them to go around me.  Its a good troll.
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Chinatown posted:I brake check tailgaters. i did that too, in my youth. i'm lucky to have not been shot for that maneuver. now, i just coast and flash them the  when they glare at me as they pass.
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I sure do hate it when people drive cars and also exist in general.
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Kibbles n Shits posted:I sure do hate it when people drive cars and also exist in general. get the gently caress outta my way!!!
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olives black posted:Kinda is for me. I'm single, childless and have no love for the exurbs (outside of the plethora of clean making GBS threads options). I really should have gotten my poo poo together and moved. It actually still isn’t So I’ve lived in or around boston my entire life and travel a lot for work within the US to major cities. The existence of public transportation doesn’t automatically make life easier for you or even make sense economically. Boston, NYC, and SF all have, by USA standards, great public transit. They’re also 3 of the most expensive COL. Eh, tbh, i was going to effort post more about the politics and budget and history and whatnot but tbh, if you actually look into the realities of it, its not that simple- and its not necessarily about you. Lol my call of duty match loaded so o well
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Statutory Ape posted:Lol my call of duty match loaded so o well Now this is good posting. Take notes, everyone.
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T Bowl posted:Baltimore to DC and back. condolences on the Ravens getting pwnd by Derrick Henry and Co.
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Chinatown posted:get the gently caress outta my way!!! Lifted hot pink truck with flame decals coal rolling blasting the Venga Boys We Like to Party brazenly tooting my La Cucaracha horn at the back of your vehicle screaming out the window "OH MY GOD HURRY IM GONNA poo poo MY PANTS I GOTTA DOODOO SO FREAKING BAD"
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My commute is 30 miles. It generally takes an hour. The last 5 miles takes longer than the first 25. The sad part is they did massive freeway expansion about 5 years ago, in the region of the last 5 miles. Didn't help all that much. Now they are adding a truck lane to another part of the commute. That might help a bit, once they start opening all the Amazon and other Distribution Centers in our area. (They have something like 15 planned along my commute route.)
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Genesplicer posted:My commute is 30 miles. It generally takes an hour. The last 5 miles takes longer than the first 25. The sad part is they did massive freeway expansion about 5 years ago, in the region of the last 5 miles. Didn't help all that much. Now they are adding a truck lane to another part of the commute. That might help a bit, once they start opening all the Amazon and other Distribution Centers in our area. (They have something like 15 planned along my commute route.) i left the city and moved to one of the few areas you could develop these things and still be near good highways/boston around here and these things are kind of a cancer for the towns. new england is a shamefully laid out poo poo show on a good day but the small towns that happen to be on the highways are undriveable now
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Lifted hot pink truck with flame decals coal rolling blasting the Venga Boys We Like to Party brazenly tooting my La Cucaracha horn at the back of your vehicle screaming out the window "OH MY GOD HURRY IM GONNA poo poo MY PANTS I GOTTA DOODOO SO FREAKING BAD" i adore your new Av
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Chinatown posted:condolences on the Ravens getting pwnd by Derrick Henry and Co. I'm not from here so gently caress em imo.
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Seizon posted:if a guy at the opposite end of a 4way goes straight do you go too Brent having a crisis of sexuality mid-session isn't going to change me.
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gently caress North Carolina drivers, go back to your state.
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At least you can drive around Florida drivers. NC people fluctuate between 25 and 85 MPH and make it so you can't pass them.
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Ruffini posted:At least you can drive around Florida drivers. literally everyone fluctuates between 25 and 85 MPH.
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everyone in Colorado drives super slow. its hilarious.
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That's due to the altitude Everyone is high Less horsepower
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Genesplicer posted:My commute is 30 miles. It generally takes an hour. The last 5 miles takes longer than the first 25. The sad part is they did massive freeway expansion about 5 years ago, in the region of the last 5 miles. Didn't help all that much. Now they are adding a truck lane to another part of the commute. That might help a bit, once they start opening all the Amazon and other Distribution Centers in our area. (They have something like 15 planned along my commute route.) More lanes just makes more people drive.
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Chinatown posted:everyone in Colorado drives super slow. its hilarious. Colorado was the nicest place I have ever been a pedestrian. I waved a guy along, because I had nothing to do, and he still waited until I crossed
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Chinatown posted:everyone in Colorado drives super slow. its hilarious.
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Away all Goats posted:Yeah, my dad made me take defensive driving courses when I was getting my license (our insurance company gave a discount if I took them) and that was one of the lessons they tried to teach me. The idea was that you had space in front of you to pull forward in case someone coming up behind you couldn't stop in time without that extra space. And yes its just as stupid as it sounds. It makes sense as a defensive driving maneuver, for what you said as well as so you're not liable / victim of insurance fraud when a beater rear ends you and pushes you into the audi in front of you. when it gets stupid is when the people wait until you're stopped all the way and then pull forward to fill in the gap they left.
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Chinatown posted:everyone in Colorado drives super slow. its hilarious. in the middle of the mountains in colorado on their major interstate some hay bales fell off a truck and they closed a lane of the highway at the incident. but for some reason rather than merge lanes there, people were doing it literally like 5 km out, we just took the empty lane until some dude blocked us angrily, but gently caress me I was not waiting for a bunch of mountain yokels that don't understand merging. I still had to wait, it was 45 minutes of idiocy.
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T Bowl posted:Baltimore to DC and back. isnt that a very popular train route why not do that?
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The Walrus posted:people who leave a bunch of space ahead of them at a red light and then pull forward once you've stopped behind them I assume from your av that you’re Canadian and this is literally what they teach you in young drivers, the biggest driving school chain in Ontario. You stay two car lengths away from the line when there’s no one behind you, move up one car length when someone comes up behind you, and move up another when someone is behind them. It’s very dumb
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The Walrus posted:in the middle of the mountains in colorado on their major interstate some hay bales fell off a truck and they closed a lane of the highway at the incident. but for some reason rather than merge lanes there, people were doing it literally like 5 km out, we just took the empty lane until some dude blocked us angrily, but gently caress me I was not waiting for a bunch of mountain yokels that don't understand merging. I still had to wait, it was 45 minutes of idiocy. no one outside of the Eastern seaboard understands zipper merging
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