[identity profile] davelew.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] davis_square
I need someplace to vent, and this seems appropriate.

Every weekday, my route home from my work takes me down Bristol Rd, across Broadway at Ball Square, and onto Willow Ave. Nearly every day, someone coming the opposite direction on Willow Ave and turning left cuts me off at the traffic light. It's like people driving up Willow have no idea that it's a four-way intersection, and think they can turn left at will without yielding to oncoming traffic.

Today, a car cut me off, then slowed down. The four cars behind them closed ranks, and all crept past (while I honked and debated the merits of T-Boning them) until my light had changed from green to red. I had to shift into reverse and back up onto Bristol to avoid the Broadway traffic.

Then, to make matters worse, the car waiting in line at Willow nearly hit me when it tried to turn left onto Broadway through my car. I had just honked at four cars, how did she not know I was there? Is there a cloaking field covering the end of Bristol that masks my honking? Or is it a rudeness field over the end of Willow that makes drivers not care?

Date: 2007-09-01 03:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amethystmoon.livejournal.com
When I lived on Bristol, I just learned to inch the hell up before the light turned green, be aggressive, and count on the fact that if I get rear-ended or someone hits the side of my car coming from Willow when I'm turning right on a green, they're at fault. I was rarely just going straight across though, which is much, much more of an issue. But then, I was also kind of hoping my car would get totaled... or stolen... it is still not cooperating with that wish... the car that will not die...

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