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  • #1

    Left turn ONLY moron

    At a intersection I travel almost daily, controlled by a a light whit a left turn arrow where all 4 sides have a left turn lane and a right/straight lane I have noticed that more and more morns are going into the left lane than when they either get the green arrow they will go thereby runnign headlong into cross traffic or wait for the straight/right lane to get the green and and trying to merge in the intersection.

    I guess the RED arrow, painted ground and hanging signs are to hard to follow. Though these morons are better than other the morons who see it and for some dumb reason almost come to a full stop in the intersection let the idiot in.

    I had one guy who did this while talking on their phone and trying to drink a coffee. When I honked at him as he was about to hit me, her flipped me the bird. The nerve of me following the rules.

    I have noticed a cop hiding in a nearby parking lot recently so hopefully they will start to crack down on these morons.
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    I take I-4 East to go home every day and there are 3 lanes. LEFT LANE is to I-4 WEST, CENTER LANE is to I-4 EAST, and RIGHT LANE leads to a RIGHT TURN ONLY that takes you to another part of Downtown Orlando.

    Every single day I am in the center lane and some douchewaffle realizes at the very last possible second that are about to either get on the wrong freeway or go back to a different part of downtown so they slam their breaks and cut in front of me or whatever driver happens to be closer. Half way through their turn is when they hit their blinker btw.

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    • #3
      I HATE driving in downtown Orlando! I get so lost and confused with all the one-way streets and how the exit names aren't necessarily the street you wind up on (i.e. the Mills exit - it takes you to South street!). My friend and I wound up in Pine Hills one day trying to get back to I-4 to go to Tampa, and we had to call my dad to figure out how to get out.

      I try and avoid it like the plague.
      Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

      Proverbs 22:6

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      • #4
        I don't think I could handle driving in Orlando. o_O NOLA is bad enough, where we're notorious for having I-10 exits in some areas that have one and ONLY one sign -- the one actually over the exit itself, with no warnings...
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        • #5
          Quoth thegiraffe View Post
          My friend and I wound up in Pine Hills one day trying to get back to I-4 to go to Tampa, and we had to call my dad to figure out how to get out.
          Crime Hills *shudder*

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          • #6
            Quoth EricKei View Post
            I don't think I could handle driving in Orlando. o_O NOLA is bad enough, where we're notorious for having I-10 exits in some areas that have one and ONLY one sign -- the one actually over the exit itself, with no warnings...
            Isn't that because they still haven't replaced them from Katrina? I was "in town" a few months ago, and I think they still have blocked I-10 exits because the exit doesn't lead to anything anymore.

            But for the OP...I might just be tired, but I am unable to picture what you are describing.

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            • #7
              Rine - nope, the highway exit signage here has always sucked. If anything, it's *improved* since the Big K. As for the blocked-off exits -- that IS generally a case of "they never fixed those roads because nobody has expressed any interest in moving back there".

              I was working for "GameStore" at the time. I wound up acting as the "company rep" for the insurance adjuster...Meaning, I got to ride around town and bypass the military blockades...and get free lunch...and get to see a LOT of, shall we say, interesting stuff around town. This was just before they stopped requiring Permits to get in. At the time, we had a store in New Orleans East. Note the usage of past tense. Even tho this was several weeks AFTER the storm was history, the area in question was still partially underwater and impassable. The adjuster just said "Ya know what, I'll just go by there to take pictures once the water goes down. I think we can safely assume that that one's a total loss". Smart fella.
              "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
              "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
              "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
              "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
              "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
              "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
              Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
              "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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              • #8
                I went into New Orleans twice in the months after Katrina with my sister who was working for her company (big chain of home improvement stores). I remember that you couldn't really rely on what you remembered about the street layouts or you couldn't rely on mapquest, either. Spent a lot of time being lost. My other sister works for the folks that provide lunches for the public school system there and it's still nothing but bad experiences.

                I did see a lot of very interesting and also very sad things during that time. Still see some sad things when I go to New Orleans. Hurricanes suck.

                Sorry matt for the thread hijack.

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