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Originally Posted by Twinkle Toes

Oh yeah, and these freeways could use more lanes! The 10 here in my area is two lanes in either direction. They need at least 4 lanes in either direction - and they have the room to do it! I lived off the 10 in CA and it was 4 or 5 lanes out there so it was never congested. Today it was a flippin' nightmare getting home from dance! The 410 was a nightmare, the 10 was awful, all the access/frontage roads were backed up like OzzFest was in town. I wonder what I ever did wrong in my life to be punished like this!!! I'm a good person -- really I am!!!

Highway funding in Texas is pure crap-o. Funding is lacking for all cities and when funding is found most of it goes to Dallas and Houston before everyone else. Which is why tolls are being preached non-stop. Plans are to add new toll lanes to 10 from Camp Bullis Rd to Boerne.

[Twinkle Toes]

Oh, and here's another thing that is weird to me. Why are your cops/Highway patrol so incognito? In CA we have black and whites that clearly state "California Highway Patrol" on the side of the car and you always know when you've got one behind you. Here, they are like dark blue and the lettering on the side of the car is like in black or something that you can't see. Why the need to be so secretive? I'm just leery of ALL Crown Vic's now!

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Those are unmarked police vehicles. There's a few of them driving the freeways (they're used on freeways to caught speeders).

[RedOregon]

Actually, they first called them "road rage" cars. They were *supposed* to concentrate on people driving like idiots.

Nowadays, though, they seem more like stealth cop cars. One of the cops that hangs out at a gas station near my house in the morning... doing no favors to the "cops drinking coffee and eating donuts stereotype was complaining because his "stealth car" had pushbars on the front. He was griping that people could spot him from a mile away!

[fierce_flawless]

ROFL on "frontage" roads! When I was 16 and taking driver's ed I had the SAME question, and my family gave me hell for years about it!

[Twinkle Toes]

Okay, here's something else I'm noticing. Why do people in Texas insist on riding your bumper? Is it because I have CA plates? I don't drive like a granny, in fact I typically drive about 80 mph and it never fails - there is ALWAYS some a-hole who wants to ride my bumper. A couple of weekends ago on my way to the air show some lady was riding my bumper and I was already going between 80 and 85 and she was so close I could smell her perfume! That was the last straw for me and I had to pull a "California". I slammed on my brakes and she backed up - WAY up until eventually she just got into another lane.

This past weekend I was somewhere and needed to get over because the lane was ending. I had my blinker on and car after car just basically sped up NOT to let me in.

I'm curious, is it because I have CA plates and people are just not going to give a Californian a break or what - because outside of their cars Texans are the friendliest and best people on the planet but they drive like a-holes!

You drive like that in CA and somebody gonna Moderator cut: *&%!
Thanks for letting me vent.

[MichelleSG]

No, it's not your plates. If you haven't noticed it's all women doing that. Those are the psycho soccor moms, I was driven off the road by one 2 weeks ago.