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Jessobear · 01-31-2011, 08:38 PM

Montgomery County is the worst place to drive on Earth. There are speed cameras EVERYWHERE. The worst one ever is on Connecticut Ave. This is a six lane wide road that is one of the only major roads heading into DC and they put a 25mph speed limit on it. Are you kidding me?

Here's a good article about it:

http://www.gazette.net/stories/06110...54_32355.shtml

There are a number of other terrible things about driving in Montgomery County. All the jobs with the NIH and other biotech companies along 270 attract lots of people from overseas. I'm guessing that many of these people didn't drive in their home countries, because they're just unbelievably bad.

In some sort of retarded effort to try to control all these terrible drivers (my take on it), they take control of traffic to the nth degree. Every intersection has a red left turn arrow regardless of your visibility of oncoming traffic. This arrow is green for roughly 10 seconds and is basically always red when you get there. Next, most of the streets have medians with limited places to turn left. For some unknown reason, when you finally come to a break in the median, there is a sign saying no left turn and no u-turn. WTF?

I've never found DC drivers to be really bad, just absurdly slow. None of them ever seem to be paying attention when the light goes green and God forbid you should come to a 4-way stop sign. Everybody just stops and then eventually starts trying to wave other cars through the intersection. Do they not teach people about the right of way in an intersection in driver's ed here?

Another thing that absolutely sets me off is when people refuse to pull forward into the intersection when waiting to turn left. They just sit there and ultimately just wait for the next green arrow. In IL, everyone pulls forward into the intersection. I feel like I'm the only person who does it here.

01-31-2011, 08:38 PM	#58 (permalink)
Jessobear Base Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Washington, DC Posts: 201 Drives: '10 370Z Tour/Sp M6 Rep Power: 15	Montgomery County is the worst place to drive on Earth. There are speed cameras EVERYWHERE. The worst one ever is on Connecticut Ave. This is a six lane wide road that is one of the only major roads heading into DC and they put a 25mph speed limit on it. Are you kidding me? Here's a good article about it: http://www.gazette.net/stories/06110...54_32355.shtml There are a number of other terrible things about driving in Montgomery County. All the jobs with the NIH and other biotech companies along 270 attract lots of people from overseas. I'm guessing that many of these people didn't drive in their home countries, because they're just unbelievably bad. In some sort of retarded effort to try to control all these terrible drivers (my take on it), they take control of traffic to the nth degree. Every intersection has a red left turn arrow regardless of your visibility of oncoming traffic. This arrow is green for roughly 10 seconds and is basically always red when you get there. Next, most of the streets have medians with limited places to turn left. For some unknown reason, when you finally come to a break in the median, there is a sign saying no left turn and no u-turn. WTF? I've never found DC drivers to be really bad, just absurdly slow. None of them ever seem to be paying attention when the light goes green and God forbid you should come to a 4-way stop sign. Everybody just stops and then eventually starts trying to wave other cars through the intersection. Do they not teach people about the right of way in an intersection in driver's ed here? Another thing that absolutely sets me off is when people refuse to pull forward into the intersection when waiting to turn left. They just sit there and ultimately just wait for the next green arrow. In IL, everyone pulls forward into the intersection. I feel like I'm the only person who does it here.