Driving has been a clusterfuck for years in Northern Virginia, people waiting till last second to cut across 3 lanes of traffic to take an exit, playing with phones rather than watching the road etc but for the most part running red lights was not a major problem.

Not anymore. It's everywhere. And it's not just the one car who wants to beat the signal, it's 2 and 3 cars behind him. On top of this road rage is so prevalent that just going to the store can be stressful.

I remember my dad enjoying his Sunday drives. Good thing he's not around to see this shit.

It's the stop signs in my neighborhood.
Especially the later in the evening it is

Yeah, around here trying to turn left at a light after the light turns yellow is pretty hazardous as people a couple hundred feet back just keep going even after the light has turned red. Also if I am the first car turning at an intersection and my light goes green I damn well better check traffic all around as sometimes people again just keep going.

On the other hand if I am behind other cars at a red light it is getting increasingly frustrating to wait extended periods of time when the light goes green because of people in front of me playing with their phones and if I dare honk I get the finger every time.

And then at the intersections with red light cameras we get people slamming on their brakes as soon as the light goes yellow.

Around here I mostly see very backed up left turn lane users running the red. It’s more common to see drivers who just sit there when the light changes green.
Yesterday I sat through one green watching a left turner with a trailer slowly drift halfway into the turn lane in the last few yards as a nitwit from the other direction made a U-turn right in front of him, practically under light. Then when the light changed the second time the dipstick in front just sat there, oblivious.
The vax.

Same here.

When they change most any road work around here, the goofy bastards at GDOT decide that the left turn lane needs to sit for five minutes waiting for the light to cycle through.

'No Turn on Red' is showing up everywhere like a bad rash.

I can't think of the last time I have seen so many drivers blow through a traffic signal.

Here in MQT, many signals go to flash between 12AM and 6AM.
My brand new Silverado took a T-bone from a red light runner. Fortunately, no one hurt.
My main peeve with Traffic Signals is they cant come up or apply the technology that prevents you from pointlessly sitting at a signal when there is no crossing traffic.

I see that fairly often around here. One almost caused an accident when the cross traffic (green light) started moving before the light runner had fully cleared the intersection. They almost have me afraid, when I'm approaching a yellow light, of getting rear-ended by the following car who expected me to run the light.

We have people stopping at a flashing yellow as if it were a regular signal

This is so common here it's laughable. I've seen people stop at a light, sit there like the rest of us, then apparently decide they have waited long enough and just drive through a red light.

Is why is Round-A-Bouts are so much better......and MUCH safer.

The local police chief told me, after a Round-A-Bout was installed.....They still have exactly the same amount of accidents, but now they are low speed instead of high speed.

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Originally posted by Rightwire:

This is so common here it's laughable. I've seen people stop at a light, sit there like the rest of us, then apparently decide they have waited long enough and just drive through a red light.

I sat in the left turn lane, with a red left-turn arrow on the traffic light. Sat there through three complete cycles of the light. Finally decided that was long enough, and next cycle that had a green for straight ahead, I did the left turn when it was safe to do so. Sensor in the road bed must not have been working.

The street through my neighborhood is pretty quiet, usually. The one vehicle that seems to always be speeding through here? The school bus.

So, what's new?

Here is my car that was totaled many years ago, when some bitch ran the red light. I had green long before reaching the intersection, so this wasn't even her last second attempt to beat the red light. She was driving an Expedition. If I had driven just a little faster, I could have been hit directly and be seriously hurt, or even killed. I thanked God for that.

I think stop lights are a suggestion here in Central Ky. It's gotten so bad, if I'm first at the light I count to five on the green before going. Apparently others are as well, I don't get "honked" for it anymore.

It’s the same down South here. Running red lights. Driving while looking down at a phone, surfing. People swerving, others accelerating painfully slow. You’ll have one lane that is driving like it’s a school zone, and right next to that people driving 20 mph over the limit. It’s a clusterfuck and a health hazard imo. This year, I had to start avoiding the freeway close to my home because oftentimes it’s bricked N or S. I’ve even seen it completely shut down. I talked to a couple of Plano PD officers a few nights ago. I asked them WTF is going on? In a nutshell, the bird brains are still on that Covid fear shit from 4 years ago. One officer said “It never left”. I’m so sick of it I try to drive as little as possible now as I don’t want any my vehicles totaled. To replace each one, it’d be 10k-20k out of pocket expense and I have full coverage insurance on everything I own. The roads are a fucking nightmare these days. I’ve watched this get worse and worse every year so I did the only thing I could, bought land out of state, rural, and will spend the next few years trying to get a building built and ultimately get the fuck out of dodge.

Walmart sells some really nice Dash Cams that are not super expensive. I have one in each vehicle.

Yes to a dash cam. Often I’m driving a vehicle not ideally suited to the best mileage, a Silverado. Then of course maybe the motorcycle, another set of issues.

It’s not a tank, but the larger vehicle helps with added mass. One also has to drive in a way to make up for the deficiencies of others. That could mean different things to people, with a motorcycle, as if you’re invisible.

Plus now we have deer activity ramping up.