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Thought I'd throw this in as a general "catch-all" to the various idiots I had to deal with this morning...
It's bad enough that Route 28 is a mess lately. But, leave it to our wonderful transportation agency to turn a simple morning commute into a total mess. Yep, I got caught in the mess resulting from the Veteran's Bridge closure this morning. All of that traffic, which would normally go on its happy way across the bridge, was being forced to detour...and the side street being used, simply couldn't handle it. As such, traffic was backed up from the bridge, down onto the parkway, and ahead past the stadiums.
Most people realized that they weren't going anywhere, and simply waited. But, it didn't stop a few people from forcing past stopped traffic (the ramp I was on narrows to one lane), in an effort to get around the blockage. They'd literally wedge their way past, only to have to slam on the brakes to avoid getting hit by traffic already on the road. In fact, this didn't stop one intrepid driver (in a beat-up white Mazda Millenia) from doing just that. I'd moved over a bit, to avoid some glass, when she came up from behind me. Rather than wait, she got over a bit too far, and scraped the entire side of her car against the wall
Seems she was late for a meeting with her crack dealer 
But, that was minor for what nearly happened later--I nearly hit a truck
After I got away from the bridge, and away from the idiots attempting to detour, the box truck ahead of me put his left signal on, started to move into the left lane...and started slowing down. No sooner do I start to pass him (I'd assumed he was moving over to avoid traffic coming off the next couple of ramps), he slams on the brakes...and makes a fucking U-turn in front of me, with not quite a carlength of stopping room I somehow managed to slam on the brakes, blast the horn, as he shot across *3* lanes of traffic without hitting anyone. Seems he really wanted the exit ramp (which was also flooded with cars) on the *right* and rather than simply go to the traffic light, he thought he'd save a few minutes. Never mind that he could have killed me!
Seriously, where the FUCK do people learn to drive here?
It's bad enough that Route 28 is a mess lately. But, leave it to our wonderful transportation agency to turn a simple morning commute into a total mess. Yep, I got caught in the mess resulting from the Veteran's Bridge closure this morning. All of that traffic, which would normally go on its happy way across the bridge, was being forced to detour...and the side street being used, simply couldn't handle it. As such, traffic was backed up from the bridge, down onto the parkway, and ahead past the stadiums.
Most people realized that they weren't going anywhere, and simply waited. But, it didn't stop a few people from forcing past stopped traffic (the ramp I was on narrows to one lane), in an effort to get around the blockage. They'd literally wedge their way past, only to have to slam on the brakes to avoid getting hit by traffic already on the road. In fact, this didn't stop one intrepid driver (in a beat-up white Mazda Millenia) from doing just that. I'd moved over a bit, to avoid some glass, when she came up from behind me. Rather than wait, she got over a bit too far, and scraped the entire side of her car against the wall
Seems she was late for a meeting with her crack dealer But, that was minor for what nearly happened later--I nearly hit a truck
After I got away from the bridge, and away from the idiots attempting to detour, the box truck ahead of me put his left signal on, started to move into the left lane...and started slowing down. No sooner do I start to pass him (I'd assumed he was moving over to avoid traffic coming off the next couple of ramps), he slams on the brakes...and makes a fucking U-turn in front of me, with not quite a carlength of stopping room I somehow managed to slam on the brakes, blast the horn, as he shot across *3* lanes of traffic without hitting anyone. Seems he really wanted the exit ramp (which was also flooded with cars) on the *right* and rather than simply go to the traffic light, he thought he'd save a few minutes. Never mind that he could have killed me!Seriously, where the FUCK do people learn to drive here?
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