The Difference Btwn. New York & Boston

[Webster]

Driving customs where you live

There's an old trope that every person thinks the world's worst drivers are from their hometown. Let's try to avoid that, but otherwise, tell me what features of driving you think MIGHT be unique to where you're from, where you've been, etc. Today a Saudi driver waved me through somewhere even...

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Saw @The Eye in the Sky!'s post over in the Driving Customs thread and immediately thought of this....

 

[The Eye in the Sky!]

Yeah pretty much. I can never get used to grid set ups because of here. It's too structured and boring. I want to drive on a road that might turn into a one way half way down.

 

[shortkut]

Yeah pretty much. I can never get used to grid set ups because of here. It's too structured and boring. I want to drive on a road that might turn into a one way half way down.

The outer boroughs aren’t as grid like but still better than that.

The big problem is all the roundabouts in New England

 

[Mark]

The outer boroughs aren’t as grid like but still better than that.

That’s pretty much how it is here.

Downtown is kinda organized:



But as soon as you zoom out just a little:

The big problem is all the roundabouts in New England

They’re BAD in DC, and working their way north into the metro area here. Most people do not understand them. At all. In any capacity.

 

[shortkut]

They’re BAD in DC, and working their way north into the metro area here. Most people do not understand them. At all. In any capacity.

Other drivers are the worst part of any roundabout

 

[Tubby23]

Melbourne went for a bit of both

 

[Webster]

Largest city in Western NC is Asheville, the San Francisco of Appalachia and the streets there are......well,

....good luck figuring out where to go; outside of Downtown its' a patchwork maze.

 

[A Maybe Baker]

I don't understand why they picked the area they did for the shot. I feel like that's in Roxbury or something. Downtown Boston isn't much better. Though if you do that one you might schedule pick up the seaport and see an accidental grid.

Also rotaries are fine if people from it of town aren't driving through them.

 

[A Maybe Baker]

Just checked and yeah that's Roxbury. They positioned it perfectly for maximum fuck you.

Just north of that image:

 

[Quagmire]

Yeah pretty much. I can never get used to grid set ups because of here. It's too structured and boring. I want to drive on a road that might turn into a one way half way down.

My favorite in my city is when a road changes its name for no reason, we have one that does it 4 times

 

[Webster]

I don't understand why they picked the area they did for the shot. I feel like that's in Roxbury or something. Downtown Boston isn't much better. Though if you do that one you might schedule pick up the seaport and see an accidental grid.

Also rotaries are fine if people from it of town aren't driving through them.

With two rivers (the French Broad & Swannanowa) and Piney Mountain buttressing Asheville, space ain't plentiful, plus when they were deciding on the path I-40 would take, the geniuses in Raleigh wanted to put 40 through downtown Asheville just to give the city a nice big fat 'fuck you' (Western NC's always been getting screwed by the plantation class down east).

They settled for just running the part of I-40 that runs into Tennessee through the worst, most rockslide-dropping section instead.

 

[Kat]

My favorite in my city is when a road changes its name for no reason, we have one that does it 4 times

I used to live on a street that had four different names within two miles, and it didn't turn or cross city lines or anything.

 

[VashTheStampede]

I used to live on a street that had four different names within two miles, and it didn't turn or cross city lines or anything.

I worked on a street exactly like this for over a decade. It's pretty normal around here, to the point where I was a little taken aback by the fact that it's unusual.

 

[Kat]

I worked on a street exactly like this for over a decade. It's pretty normal around here, to the point where I was a little taken aback by the fact that it's unusual.

Normal?! Doesn't that make it difficult to navigate?

 

[VashTheStampede]

Only when you tell someone "head down Brent which is gonna morph into Beverly before it turns into Michigan until it decides its Bayou".

Usually it's just "take (one of those options) and turn onto (another road with an identity crisis)"

 

[Crystal]

This thread just gives me huge Eastenders vibes, lol

 

[Jon]

I was just back in Boston for the first time in 4 years after growing up there. When I was younger driving there was "I don't know why people are so salty driving here!" Then, even though I've been experiencing Florida drivers for 4 years, my reason now was "Oh my fuck!"