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The worst I have seen is when I go to visit my brother in Atlanta. I'll be driving 80, and people constantly will fly right by me. NJ drivers are slowpokes compared to them.
exactly! I have never seen anything like it (except in Germany )
The thing that bothers me most is that so many people don't know how to merge onto a highway. You can't enter a 65mph highway at 45mph. It is very unsafe. And it is very dangerous for the poor person stuck behind you trying to enter the highway as well as whoever happens to be driving in the right lane of the highway too. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that it is safer and easier to merge at similar speeds as the cars you are merging with.
The thing that bothers me most is that so many people don't know how to merge onto a highway. You can't enter a 65mph highway at 45mph. It is very unsafe. And it is very dangerous for the poor person stuck behind you trying to enter the highway as well as whoever happens to be driving in the right lane of the highway too. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that it is safer and easier to merge at similar speeds as the cars you are merging with.
Frequently I would follow a car entering the highway and the person would slow to a crawl or just stop at the end of the merge. Which is why I usually look in the mirror and make an early merge instead of being slowed down by a coward.
I also notice a lot of bad driving/parking in the parking lots. People who can't maneuver around other cars and forced to wait creating necessary congestion around parking lots.
Older highways don't have long-enough entry ramps. Vehicles need a good quarter-mile, to get up to speed & merge into traffic.
I think the exit to 95S from Route 3 east has to be the worst merge ever in my experience. I don't remember seeing a sign or anything indicating that the two lanes, going up the entrance ramp onto 95S, have to merge the way they do, which is that the rightmost entrance lane merges almost immediately into the leftmost entrance lane, and the leftmost lane then merges into 95's right lane. I'm not a good judge of distance but it really feels like the right entrance lane is only 100 feet before it merges into the left entrance lane. So if you're a driver in the left entrance lane, you're looking to your left to see if the highway is clear; meanwhile you have people in the right entrance lane who are desperate to merge into your lane before their lane disappears! It scared the heck out of me the first time. Especially since there are trucks that use that exit. I'll look again the next time I take that exit but I don't ever recall seeing a road sign warning drivers.
The thing that bothers me most is that so many people don't know how to merge onto a highway. You can't enter a 65mph highway at 45mph. .
You're lucky if they're going 45mph. I've been behind people going literally 15-20mph. The worst thing is when you have on ramps going uphill, which decreases everyone's speed even more.
My least favorite ramp is merging onto I-280 East at exit 4 (Eisenhower Parkway). The on ramp is curved, goes uphill, and it has a very short distance to move over before you get mauled by oncoming traffic. I was on that ramp the other day behind a box truck going 15mph. I thought I was a goner.
I just moved from the Mid-West to New Jersey for a job. I'm surprised as to how different the driving etiquette is.
Where I'm from, we usually have a few extremes - few people who drive 10 or more miles over the speed limit and few people who 5 or more miles under the speed limit. A lot of people drive on around the speed limit.
However, in New Jersey (especially Central Jersey, where I'm living) there seems to be more people driving in the extremes and fewer people driving within or around the speed limit - especially on the highway.
My guess for so many people speeding is the difference in lifestyle here. New Jersey tends to have a busy lifestyle attached to it, whereas in the Mid-West the lifestyles are more laid-back.
I see people going at 80 mph when the speed limit is 55 mph and I hardly see the police pulling them over. I wonder if the policies regarding speeding here are different.
What do you all think? What's the reason for so many people speeding here? Should I go with the flow, in order to reduce traffic congestion? I've noticed people like me who drive on the speed limit tend to slow down traffic dramatically in an abrupt manner.
Thanks in advance.
my general observation in most of the mid-atlantic and northeast - if you're moving with the flow of traffic in the right lane - on an interstate, you're unlikely to get pulled over by a cop. if you're in the middle or left lanes, slightly more likely. if you're behaving differently than those around you - whether that be driving faster, or changing lanes frequently - you're a target for the cops.
I just moved from the Mid-West to New Jersey for a job. I'm surprised as to how different the driving etiquette is.
Where I'm from, we usually have a few extremes - few people who drive 10 or more miles over the speed limit and few people who 5 or more miles under the speed limit. A lot of people drive on around the speed limit.
However, in New Jersey (especially Central Jersey, where I'm living) there seems to be more people driving in the extremes and fewer people driving within or around the speed limit - especially on the highway.
My guess for so many people speeding is the difference in lifestyle here. New Jersey tends to have a busy lifestyle attached to it, whereas in the Mid-West the lifestyles are more laid-back.
I see people going at 80 mph when the speed limit is 55 mph and I hardly see the police pulling them over. I wonder if the policies regarding speeding here are different.
What do you all think? What's the reason for so many people speeding here? Should I go with the flow, in order to reduce traffic congestion? I've noticed people like me who drive on the speed limit tend to slow down traffic dramatically in an abrupt manner.
Thanks in advance.
Ah, the police lull drivers into a false sense of security by letting speeders go by and broadcasting to everyone else it is ok to do 60 in a 45. Then when the towns need cash the cops pull over speeders in the name of saftey. Almost like baiting deer.
Safety is a convenient rationale for many laws and restrictions in NJ. So many in fact that a cop can pull you over because he dosen't like the cut of your jib and guaranrteed there is an infraction he can cite. Love those license plate frames.....a sure infraction rarely ever cited, but it exists as a default if excuses should run out.
As NJ is a corridor state, many of the drivers you see are from out of state.
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