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The Daily Reflector
I knew Greenville was a special place when it came to terrible drivers; plenty of other Carolina cities have terrible drives but Greenville is just ridiculous.
The Daily Reflector
I knew Greenville was a special place when it came to terrible drivers; plenty of other Carolina cities have terrible drives but Greenville is just ridiculous.
If you look over to the left of the article there is a side bar that lists the infractions that they found. I don't know how long they were out there but that is a lot of infractions. It only confirms my suspicions that most drivers here aren't concerned with even the most basic traffic laws. I wrote a letter to the Daily Reflector about the use of the center turn lane to merge into traffic and the online responses weren't very supportive of my view.
There is a lawlessness that occupies Greenville. Most of the time it's more like an 1860 western town with no sheriff. It shows in the number of robberies and the number of vehicle accidents. Both of those areas of crime are out of control and it doesn't seem like anyone is concerned with stopping it.
They can blame the accidents on the new students all they want but why don't the other college towns have this problem?
The Daily Reflector
I knew Greenville was a special place when it came to terrible drivers; plenty of other Carolina cities have terrible drives but Greenville is just ridiculous.
This is what happens when the police don't do regular patrols across the entire town, along with an increase in crime. Greenville's roads are a clusterf*** of people driving scared, aggressive, confused or indifferent. There's not one bit of unity. It's not just the students, but it's also the phone talkers, texters, migrant workers driving like do back home, and people coming into the city from the surrounding ruralness and maintaining their country driving style. Speeding doesn't seem to be the issue, but traffic flow does. There's no order. Personally, I'm fed up with people pulling out in front of me while I'm doing 50, as if I won't be on top of them by the time their vehicle completes their turn.
Speeding doesn't seem to be the issue, but traffic flow does.
Most people here think speeding is an issue for a reason. They'll block roads up driving 5, 10 and 15 MPH under the limit. Then when the cars behind them get a chance to go, they often go briskly. There were 2 cars traveling west on Firetower this morning. From Arlington Blvd to almost all the way to Greenville Blvd they moseyed along, side by side, 30, 35 and 40. They had 2 dozen cars held up behind them. People were jockeying back and forth, switching lanes, hoping they could get by them. That's what causes accidents. That's what cause traffic flow problems. And another thing, when the light turns green GO damnit. Don't sit there thinking about going. Don't continue to talk on the phone. Stop putting your makeup on. Pay attention to the traffic light and not the conversation you're having.
I dunno, looking at the AAA stats, it's all fender-benders. Pitt's fatality ranking is down in the middle. Most of the high-fatality counties are rural ones like Hyde and Clay.
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Originally Posted by Richard Martin
They can blame the accidents on the new students all they want but why don't the other college towns have this problem?
Watauga County's in the top five for both total and non-fatal crashes. Pitt's got the advantage on non-fatal injurious crashes, but that can be a function of more rural crashes, which tend to be at higher speed, or people not wearing seatbelts. Or the fact that unlike Boone, it's physically possible to drive over 10mph in Greenville.
This is what happens when the police don't do regular patrols across the entire town, along with an increase in crime. Greenville's roads are a clusterf*** of people driving scared, aggressive, confused or indifferent. There's not one bit of unity. It's not just the students, but it's also the phone talkers, texters, migrant workers driving like do back home, and people coming into the city from the surrounding ruralness and maintaining their country driving style. Speeding doesn't seem to be the issue, but traffic flow does. There's no order. Personally, I'm fed up with people pulling out in front of me while I'm doing 50, as if I won't be on top of them by the time their vehicle completes their turn.
I cannot tell you how many times that happens to me in one day in Greenville. Everytime it happens I think "they cannot be this stupid to pull out in front of me" so I continue going whatever the speed limit is and at the last minute they pull out in front of me.
I cannot tell you how many times that happens to me in one day in Greenville. Everytime it happens I think "they cannot be this stupid to pull out in front of me" so I continue going whatever the speed limit is and at the last minute they pull out in front of me.
Yup! The old I'll wait 'til they get real close before I pull on out in front of them trick! At one point, I wondered if my charcoal grey car is hard to see or gauge its velocity, but no, drivers in Greenville just suck!
There aren't good corridors in the city. Along with the unsynced traffic lights. Plus, especially this time of the year, the influx of students at East Carolina and PCC. Also people from out of the city/county using services here (hospital or ECU). And the land use pattern is still crap. With the its cheaper to build out, than up.
The old Stratford Arms looks great. ECU was able to demolish the apartment complex, while keeping the trees intact. It looks marvelous. There will be some good tailgating there this fall.
Campus Towers is constructing something on Cotanche.
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