Drivers in the Raleigh area! (horses, rated, required)

[RedZin]

Originally Posted by CHTransplant

Sure it could - 'specially with all these Yankee drivers that have moved in. You know how they are. They'll plow into someone just to prove it was "their turn."

Exactly.

[JWCool]

I was here during Hurricane Fran when traffic lights were out for days. It was the most wonderful driving I've ever experienced. You stopped, looked, then went whenever you felt like it. Of course some people felt they were too important to stop at all, in which case having an older car was extremely beneficial in winning a game of chicken.

Originally Posted by TheBigKahunaNC

In today's "me first" society, 4 way stops are a headache. My favorite are the ones who freight train it when the first car in their line goes....and then 4 or 5 cars behind them all go like it's a green light! I see it all the time at Honeycutt and Durant!

I always pull within a hairs breadth of their door. I can tell by the shocked look on their face as they swerve to miss me that they either suddenly remembered the rules or they're going straight home to look them up.

[mirelanski]

Originally Posted by cchampagne232000

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It is definitely not illegal to do- but it is driving without courtesy AND typically causes the traffic flow to slow because you've got numbnuts trying to fly by the packed line and force-merge themselves into the left.

I drive that route every day and it is a poorly designed merge. The worst is attempting to make it across 5 lanes in about .2 of a mile if you need to take the Davis Drive exit on 40.

When I have rode the merge lane until it is about to end and safely merged left, typically there is no one ahead of me causing a delay. The issue is as you stated, the attempt of making it across 4to 5 lanes. It is a bottleneck. People do not accelerate to speed and then get over which would make getting over A LOT easier. In their defense, a lot of times you can't get over because once merged onto 40 East traffic is backed up from all the traffic exiting on to 540.

Dumping traffic into the fast lane of a major interstate is not the most efficient way to move people on roads.

[CHTransplant]

Originally Posted by NRaleighman

Thanks for stereotyping.

That was tongue in cheek, based on a lot of prior chatter in this forum. Inside humor, I guess.

And I are one (a Yankee) anyway.

[jupiter]

Why do so many people insist on treating roundabouts like stop signs? Might as well go back to 4-way stop signed intersections.

Here's a tip for anyone reading this who is guilty of unnecessarily stopping before entering a roundabout: As you approach the roundabout, if you can safely enter, DO SO. You do NOT need to stop, unless you cannot safely enter. The whole point of roundabouts is to enhance traffic flow. Stopping unnecessarily (i.e., when not stopping would not cause an accident) disrupts traffic flow. Let it flow, baby, let it flow.

[leighbhe]

The fact that when they put in new roundabouts (the first ones ever) in Wake Forest the town sent a letter out about "how" to use roundabouts, I knew we were in trouble!

Yes, many people, 5 years later, still stop instead of simply enter! drives me nuts.

Leigh

[evaofnc]

Can we also send this memo out to people who insist on stopping at the free flowing right turn on Evans and Aviation?

[twingles]

People just love to stop down here for no reason at all. It is beyond frustrating.

[Drover]

That's what you get for living some place where nobody's in no hurry to do nothin'

[wolfcub]

This may get me flamed big time but to add to unnecessary stopping, why is it when you are going down the road and an ambulance is coming the OPPOSITE direction, people feel the need to stop in the middle of the road. Do you really think the ambulance is going to drive right at you?? What is the purpose, it is going the other way folks!!!!