Originally Posted by Mikeod (Post 974594)

I believe it. Years ago I worked in Kenmore Square. One day we had a perfect storm. Afternoon rush hour traffic enhanced by an afternoon Red Sox game letting out. The square was gridlocked. Then we heard the ambulance and saw it trying to get through the mess. Drivers were jockeying to try to make room, and just when it looked like a path was clearing, one idiot pulled forward to block the ambulance. One of the attendants in the front seat jumped out and started banging on the guys car until he backed up and let them through.



When I moved to CA and went to the DMV for my license, they asked where I was coming from. I told them Boston. They'd asked how many accidents I had been involved in. I told them none. They said I didn't need a road test and gave me my license!



The traffic reporter in a helicopter got so mad one day at the drivers he suggested they give him balloons of red paint he could drop on cars doing idiotic things. Then he could call the State Police and tell them to ticket the cars with the red paint on them!

Originally Posted by EnglishJW (Post 974399)

With all the discussion on TOTV about how bad much of the driving is, I thought you might be interested in this listing of the 25 towns with the worst driving. No, TV isn't on the list. If you continue reading, there is a second list of the 25 cities with the best driving. TV isn't there either. Maybe things here aren't so unusual after all. Metro Boston drivers named the worst in America, again - AOL.com

Originally Posted by rubicon (Post 974602)

BUT you forget that all those bad drivers from the ten states with the worse drivers have relocated either full or part time to The Villages and they are the bigger share of transplants. To acerbate the situation the roads in and around The Villages are not built to accommodate cowboys

Originally Posted by rubicon (Post 974602)

BUT you forget that all those bad drivers from the ten states with the worse drivers have relocated either full or part time to The Villages and they are the bigger share of transplants. To acerbate the situation the roads in and around The Villages are not built to accommodate cowboys

Originally Posted by dbussone (Post 974598)

Was the guy in the helicopter Joe Greene?

Originally Posted by Mikeod (Post 974622)

Yes, it was! Joe Greene over the Southeast Distressway.

Originally Posted by tomwed (Post 974610)

It's true, the northeast represents more then 40% of the population.
But what many others consider overwhelming traffic, we see as a slight delay.

Show me where you got your facts that the northeast re-locators are the problem.

Originally Posted by rubicon (Post 974666)

Its not traffic if its moving I know I know.



First I didn't use the word re-locators I said transplants. We are creatures of habits bad driving habits in the northeast bad driving habits in the southeast.



I am from Minnesota and there we have no four way stops because people are so polite that no one would ever move..."No, please you go first", No please you go...........

Originally Posted by rubicon (Post 974666)

First I didn't use the word re-locators I said transplants. We are creatures of habits bad driving habits in the northeast bad driving habits in the southeast.

Originally Posted by tomwed (Post 974686)

Where are the facts that northeast transplants have bad driving habits in The Villages? Just a hunch, but the people from the northeast who see what makes this place, the place to be are not the north east drivers you are lumping us into.

Originally Posted by dbussone (Post 974690)

I'm primarily a defensive driver who is very suspicious of those in rotaries and those when seated in a car whose heads are not higher than the steering wheel.

Originally Posted by tomwed (Post 974686)

Where are the facts that northeast transplants have bad driving habits in The Villages? Just a hunch, but the people from the northeast who see what makes this place, the place to be are not the north east drivers you are lumping us into.

Originally Posted by rubicon (Post 974758)

tomwed: You do know that I am playing light here? Just feeding the thread. Of course there are bad drivers in every part of the country, world, space.

Gosh tomwed I didn't just fall out of a tree. Please lighten up. In fact I question the survey presented here because I suspect like all statistics they are flawed or in the case of political polls manipulated

Glad to have met you via TOTV.

Personal Best Regards

Originally Posted by dbussone (Post 974685)

I have a friend who passed away at a four way stop in MN. They found his skeletal remains in his car with his blinker still going after he left home to get milk. So sad.

Originally Posted by MikeV (Post 974804)

I lived in Boston for 2 years. I went there for a promotion. The first day I drove to work and back home is the day I started looking for a job somewhere else. It took two years almost to the day but I got out.

Originally Posted by Happydaz (Post 975074)

Boston drivers definitely do some amazing things like exit a four lane expressway from the far left lane, but they do have some redeeming characteristics. They do have a good sense of where the other cars are on the road so you can feel somewhat comfortable passing them and not getting cut off. I drove for over thirty years up there. Accidents were numerous due to the aggressive driving, but I believe traffic fatalities were not the highest. I don't know the reason for that.

Originally Posted by dbussone (Post 974685)

I have a friend who passed away at a four way stop in MN. They found his skeletal remains in his car with his blinker still going after he left home to get milk. So sad.

Originally Posted by CFrance (Post 975163)

That funny story would be believable except for one fact, dbussone... Nobody in the Midwest uses turn signals!:shocked:

Originally Posted by justjim (Post 975181)

I'm watching a national news network tonight and was surprised to hear a segment on Senior drivers. It was very positive. According to the report seniors are very safe drivers. Yep, that's what the stats say. As they say, "put that in your pipe and smoke it".

Perhaps we complain too much.

Originally Posted by tomwed (Post 975383)

I looked that up. The study was by AAA. It said seniors are more likely to wear seat belts, be sober, not drive will using a cell phone or play music. Seniors want more testing and health screening for drivers over 75.