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In reply to the discussion: Obeying traffic laws? How hard is it? [View all]mythology
(9,527 posts)But then again I live in the Boston area where nobody knows how to drive or park. Granted it doesn't help that we have a million one way streets, cross walks at seemingly every intersection (especially in Cambridge and Somerville) because combining a few cross walks would be too much of an imposition to walk a block down the street and lights that are deliberately off set to slow down traffic. Oh and there are a significant number of bicyclists who have no idea about basic laws. Back when I was biking to work, I got hit from behind a couple of times by other cyclists who thought I was just going to blow through a red light.
There's one stretch near where I live that has 5 lights within maybe a quarter mile and even late at night they are almost always off set so that right when you get to the second or third light, it turns red, even when there are no cars on the cross street. It's more than a little infuriating.