the random musings not worthy of new thread thread

[ice grillin you]

Our roads are chaos.

lol

[PhillyGirl]

Our roads are chaos.

lol

For some reason, "I can't get left!" passed through my mind when I read that.

[PhillyGirl]

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[rjs246]

Anyone who thinks that our roads are chaos has never driven in Australia or any middle-eastern country.

[MDS]

a person a day dies in israel from a car accident*

*does not include buses exploding

[mussa]

Woman got hit today by my place, heard the sirens early morning. About 9am I was going to the gym and they had the roads blocked off and as I was turning I saw what looked to be a body in a white bag in front of the car that hit her. Lovely.

[Diomedes]

Chaos is hyperbole, of course.

But orderly, sane, and reasonable are not adjectives you could apply to American traffic either.

[Sgt PSN]

Our roads and highways are, for the most part, orderly, sane and reasonable.  Drivers are not and it's a result of living in a society where people are entirely too self centered.  I'll drive how I want because I'm in a hurry because I'm running late...blah blah blah.  Piss off. 

Since we're talking about traffic, the thing that pisses me off more than anything in traffic jams are lane shifters.  The iceholes who insist on bouncing back and forth from one lane to the other.  Guess what dickheadface, that only makes the traffic worse.  When the freeway gets backed up, it would actually move along a little faster if everyone just stayed in their farging lane. 

I also hate the idiot who is cruising in the far left lane and wants to stay there until he's at his exit and wants to cross over 4 lanes of traffic to exit.  Farg that guy. 

[ice grillin you]

our drivers are fine drama queens...when you have hundreds of millions of drivers on the roads accidents are going to happen due to idiocy

the biggest problem with drivers is that they drive to much...not enough people take advantage of public transportation when and where available

[Diomedes]

Our drivers are not fine.  They are marginal at best.

[PhillyGirl]

Since we're talking about traffic, the thing that pisses me off more than anything in traffic jams are lane shifters.  The iceholes who insist on bouncing back and forth from one lane to the other.  Guess what dickheadface, that only makes the traffic worse.  When the freeway gets backed up, it would actually move along a little faster if everyone just stayed in their farging lane. 

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[Sgt PSN]

When it's due to idiocy, it's not an accident.  Accidents aren't preventable, like bad weather, animal in the road, etc.  Most "accidents" are completely preventable.  Drunk Driving.  Wreckless driving.  Excessive speeding.  Talking/texting/doing anything distracting while driving.  Those are all preventable causes of accidents but I'm pretty sure if you looked up the stats you'd find that the majority of accidents on the road are due to preventable causes. 

[ice grillin you]

that may be true but it doesnt make our roads overly unsafe certainly not chaotic and definitely not a chicken little sky is falling topic

its probably not in the top 1000 things to worry about in life

[PhillyPhreak54]

I know you know this Sarge - but how nuts was the traffic in Peru? Total and absolute gridlock with people ignoring stop signs and lights and the traffic police. They do their own damn thing there. Whats funny is that its rare to see accidents. Despite the craziness they dont wreck. I am always amazed when I am there how so organized yet zesty it is.

Our traffic is bad because of douchebags and idiots. The 18yo punks who laughed after almost hitting you- they should have been dragged from the car and beaten.

Houston leads the world in bad drivers (and uninsured) per capita I bet.

[Sgt PSN]

Nah, it's not the end of the world or anything but it's still annoying and it is something that would/should be addressed before it does get out of control.....especially the more in-depth driver's education and testing.  Perhaps stronger punishments or higher fines would get people's attention too.