RE: poor drivers/construction (long)

[Colin <cwass99@home.com>]

     Well, all I can say is National Capital with drivers from Quebec. 
As the rant says...(and you really have to imagine this with the Quebec
accent) "I can't turn right on a red light, but tabernac I can go straight
through them".

Cheers,
(being driven insane in Ottawa)
Colin


On 06-Dec-01 Calimus wrote:
> Being that I live about 1 hour from Atlanta Ga, I can tell you that we have
> some of the worst drivers in the country and some of the worst contruction
> as well.  An if you think you have bad drivers where you live, just ask them
> where they are originaly from, bet the answer Ga.
> 
> On numorus occasions I've had everything from a geo metro to a Full blown
> semi whip out in front of me.  Today alone I had a older chevy pickup cut me
> off while I was in the fast lane.  At the time I was doing about 85mph (yes
> I was speeding, but in I-75 @ 6pm if you arn't doing 80+ you get run over)
> and the truck just moved over in front of me with only a car length and a
> half to spare.  A qucik down shift, foot to the breaks and a liberal
> applying of the horn button just to make sure he knew I was there.  What did
> I get for this, the all american universal hand gesture for "how ya doin".
> Ok, so it's not that nice, but you get the point.  However, even when I'm
> not speeding I see ppl crossing 3 lanes and sometimes 4 lanes of traffic at
> the last moment to hit an exit ramp.  Near misses are daily occurances.
>     As for construction, well, lets just say that Atlanta has been under
> construction since the civil war and it truely shows.  They fix pot-holes
> here with metal plates (and no this isn't covered by road hazzard for your
> tires) with sharp corners.  Sometimes they just toss some loose gravel in
> the holes.  Nothing worse the an 18 wheeler chucking a rock outta the hole
> while doing 70+.  Road rage is also at a premium here, nothing is forgiven.
> This is why I live about 50 miles north in a nice quiet area where tree's
> still exist.
> 
> William Snyder
> 88 Scirocco 16v
> 89 Cabriolet 8v
> 71 Karmann Ghia
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Monster" <monster@aros.net>
> To: "Josh Hignight" <Josh.Hignight@phoenix.edu>
> Cc: "scirocco list" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 12:50 AM
> Subject: Re: My Scirocco is essentially trashed.
> 
> 
>> Just have to add my $0.02...
>> ALB DOES have bad drivers, I agree, and I've heard the Big I project is a
>> real mess.  I remember when they were doing construction and I had to come
>> into ALB off Coal and turn on Carlisle. And being in a huge bus it wasnt
>> easy! (Grayhound)  I feel your pain.
>> Salt Lake City has their moments too.  There for a while from 300 S to
> 6800
>> S (they use numbers here not street names) if you were on I-15 you couldnt
>> turn off any exit.  You either went through town or you had to wait until
>> 7200 S and turn off, then they had it so anything after 7200 to 160th was
>> closed.  Sucked trying to get around.
>> The drivers didnt make driving any metter.  Back to ALB, thats the ONLY
> city
>> that I've EVER had a little geo metro pull out in front of a huge bus
> going
>> 40 mph then slam on his brakes.  Scare the bejesus out of me!  Almost got
> a
>> GLI enima!  Man I cussed her out GOOD!
>> As far as dents.  this bitch over on the side of my townhouse has an old
>> dented beat up Masda 626 and she insists on parking next to the scirocco
>> when it's sitting outside.  I now have 12 dents.  One of them I saw her do
>> and I asked her what the hell she thought she was doing, and if she had
> ANY
>> respect for other peoples property.  She shrugged her shoulders and said
> "oh
>> well you can get it fixed" walked into her place and shut the door.  Damn,
> I
>> wish I would have thought to do something to her car.... but glad I didnt.
>> Ok lets hear from some other people.. how bad are the drivers where they
>> live.. construction and stuff. :)
>> -=John=-
>>
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