Which cities have polite drivers? Impolite drivers? (SUV, tailgating, speeding)

[artyst]

i second phoenix, az as worst!! very aggressive and impolite drivers here. wisconsin, very polite!

[Trekking Rain]

I live in Seattle and the drivers here are very rude. I'm not sure if it is the traffic getting worse or the weather here. I like to drive with a couple of car lengths in front of me, at or just above the speed limit. It never fails to amaze me how many people will cut me off to get in front of me, even when noone is behind me. If I dare honk in protest, I'll be driven off the road or at a minimum gestered at. One of my friends has noticed the same behavior when he is on the road too.

Where do the nice people live?!

I've live in Portland the other 1/2 of my life. The drivers there are more polite and will let you in if you signal. I don't know if it has changed since I lived there, but if your car is broken down, someone will always stop and assist you, even if they are with their family.

[KevK]

Philly. I hate that city. People there will pull into the intersections when the traffic is stopped ahead of them and then when you get the green, they are sitting there blocking the intersection and they don't care if they **** you off or not.

[mikewu9900]

i'll say tampa has some bad drivers, you take this melting pot of people from all around the world, and the driving styles from where there from, mix and add accidents, bam, instant messes all around town.............

plus i heard that tampa is the city with the most motorcycle deaths per capita in the country. no evidence of this, but sounds right to me.


on the other hand, providence RI, where im from has some decent drivers... very aware of surroundings

[titaniummd]

Orange Park, FL and some Parts of Jacksonville, FL = Polite.

Bethesda, Rockville, Gaithersburg, Silver Spring, MD and the DC area = Not Polite.

[IonRedline08]

Hampton Roads is horrible
Miami is nuts, I have seen some of the most dangerous things I have ever seen on roadways in Miami

[MR77]

Originally Posted by GracieJJ

LA and Vegas drivers have got to be up there amongst the worst, Vegas roads and deviations are rather confusing, making the bad drivers look like uttor morons

LA drivers, though aggressive, at least understand how traffic works and they know how to make quick driving decisions. Las Vegas drivers are just clueless.

[yo vanilla]

I would say that most of Appleton, WI's mobile roadhazards come from sheer stupidity or a total lack of attentiveness rather than rude behavior. Which isn't exactly ideal, either.

[sonarrat]

San Francisco is awful. It's a combination of tourists navigating the maze-like roads, the cabbies, the double-parking, and the oblivious pedestrians who will cross the street anywhere at any time.

[M3 Mitch]

Seattle is unique in my experience in that if you signal that you want to change lanes, people will move out of your way.

Atlanta is a damn confusing mess, way overcrowded, not so much rude as that no one can figure out what to do.

DC has some pretty rude drivers. Don't know for a fact, but judging from the culture there probably many of them are 3 sheets to the wind as well as rude and clumsy.

One experince in LA, they all run 80, no more no less, and do so in huge clumps of cars packed together. Like birds or fish. They seem to mostly know what they are doing, but it got on my nerves.