California Senator Scott Wiener is introducing a new set of bills to make streets safer across the state, including one that would change how you drive.
I lived in Seattle for 7 years and am well aware of what I5 traffic through Tacoma is like during rush hour. I used to drive to visit friends down in Portland on Friday after work pretty frequently.
I mean where is he wrong? It’s mostly psychological outside of very long, high speed travel. People who drive aggressively in cities are usually shaving off 2 to 3 minutes if they are lucky. And that’s if they somehow also get lucky with traffic light timing.
In most cases if you had simply walked out your door five minutes earlier, you would’ve saved more time than the speeding granted you.
🙄 That leapfrog shit where you zip in and out of crawling traffic every time there’s a gap is dangerous and people shouldn’t do it in the first place. If traffic is super slow then the speed limit is easily fast enough to pass anyway.
Also, it shouldn’t be your job to speed to make up for bad traffic. That’s a failure of public policy and engineering. We should fix that.
There are a number of scenarios where one might do 10+ over the speed limit to get around someone on the highway that does not involve the leap-frogging-in-crawling-traffic maneuver you’re referring to.
Yeah, you might want to get around them, but only to save a couple of minutes. If someone is going slow enough for me to give a shit, the speed limit is enough to pass. Otherwise, tough luck, you have to go 50 in a 55
You sound like someone who has never themselves driven in real traffic before.
You mean like the jackholes who think the best way out of a traffic jam is to drive on the shoulder so they can pass everybody? 🙄
“Real traffic” is nearly a dead-stop and you’re not in a position to gun it to get ahead in most cases.
Source: The real traffic of Seattle.
I lived in Seattle for 7 years and am well aware of what I5 traffic through Tacoma is like during rush hour. I used to drive to visit friends down in Portland on Friday after work pretty frequently.
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I mean where is he wrong? It’s mostly psychological outside of very long, high speed travel. People who drive aggressively in cities are usually shaving off 2 to 3 minutes if they are lucky. And that’s if they somehow also get lucky with traffic light timing.
In most cases if you had simply walked out your door five minutes earlier, you would’ve saved more time than the speeding granted you.
🙄 That leapfrog shit where you zip in and out of crawling traffic every time there’s a gap is dangerous and people shouldn’t do it in the first place. If traffic is super slow then the speed limit is easily fast enough to pass anyway.
Also, it shouldn’t be your job to speed to make up for bad traffic. That’s a failure of public policy and engineering. We should fix that.
There are a number of scenarios where one might do 10+ over the speed limit to get around someone on the highway that does not involve the leap-frogging-in-crawling-traffic maneuver you’re referring to.
Yeah, you might want to get around them, but only to save a couple of minutes. If someone is going slow enough for me to give a shit, the speed limit is enough to pass. Otherwise, tough luck, you have to go 50 in a 55
no
Epic rebuttal. /S
That’s what it comes down to. “I’m too impatient, selfish, and narcissistic to value your safety above a few extra seconds of my life”.