@LiberalLibrarian The stretch of highway through our community has always been dangerous due to erratic and speeding drivers. Now that it has been completely repaved it has gotten worse. I registered a complaint with our local RCMP detachment and as of last week they have stepped up patrolling.
@LiberalLibrarian Part of it may be due to the suspension of road tests for driver's licenses during the pandemic.
@Coctaanatis @LiberalLibrarian you mean, like the fact that on suburban interstates, the new 'speed limit' is 80? And if you are not going at least 75 you'll get run over?
Yeah. Posted limit is 60.
@kismatt @LiberalLibrarian People here in northern Virginia have been driving that way for years, and in my experience it's like that on I-95 pretty much all the way to Florida. In Maryland, I've been passed by cars doing 100 plenty of times, which is funny because non-interstate roads in the Maryland suburbs are full of traffic cameras.
@LiberalLibrarian so much unhingement … I have a different theory, the virus has affected people’s brains in ways we don’t understand. We want to find “rational” reasons based upon pre COVID thought, but the gross weirdness and lack of emotion regulation I think go beyond it.
@LiberalLibrarian not arguing about people being more feral, but "California stop" made me chuckle. My office is up near Victorville and people seem more likely to get to a full stop, or completely blast the light/sign. Most of my driving being in New England I referred to CA stop as a rolling stop, so experiencing that not being common out there as us Yankees believe struck me as funny.
@Valkaru @LiberalLibrarian I've seen them referred to as "Idaho stops" as well.
PS: The stop sign that's on the corner where I live apparently is only a stop in the daylight. At night, people will fly thru it at 40, in a residential subdivision. Whee.
@kismatt @LiberalLibrarian when neightbors blow past my house (25 mph limit, one road in and out), i sometimes might roll a kids ball into the street just to spice things up.
@Valkaru @LiberalLibrarian if I did that I'd probably get shot at.
@kismatt @LiberalLibrarian so tossing a bicycle in the street would be really frowned upon
We have a pair of ...let's call them young adults...who have pocket rockets, and who will zoom up and down the street @40 mph at all hours (yes, 3 AM) blowing thru the stop sign, driving on the sidewalk, weaving in between cars, etc.
You don't know how much I'd love to string up a clothesline. ISTG.
@kismatt @LiberalLibrarian making a bad name for those well-behaved riders:( Between acting the fool and ridiculously loud pipes (I am in New Hampshire) there are some folks that don't win many friends
@LiberalLibrarian
Our area is the same nowadays. Red lights and stop signs are now just suggestions. I believe it has something to do with the proliferation of "safer" roundabouts in recent years. It's just another way to play chicken.
@LiberalLibrarian Or they have a death wish. Their own whilst taking someone out in the process.