Submitted by robronanea t3_zmu4k2 in newjersey
Y'all are killing my morning commute. Twice this week all lanes in one direction were shut down at Clifton. Not to mention last night's water main break in Secaucus.
Drive safer. Put those phones down and stop crashing. Please.
Taking the bus has made me more aware of how prevalent the issue of distracted driving is. It's not a once in the blue moon thing, I can look over, and it seems like every 10 drivers we pass one is on his/her phone streaming or facetiming.
Drivers think that just because their phone is mounted, they can do whatever they want. Sorry, does not work that way. Your phone should be mounted for GPS and GPS ONLY. If you cannot handle the notifications, set your phone to DND. My new car has Android Auto and even with that I can set a DND message.
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absolutely!
Yes! I commute in on a bus on Route 3 and it’s crazy and disgusting how many are full on texting on a HIGHWAY! Stop the insanity!
>Typing something into their phone or facetiming/video chatting
I saw this the other night while driving home from work. Was the first time I witnessed it and really couldn't believe it. How can you even manage to focus on the road while facetiming? I don't get it.
Speaking of the photos and videos - a few years ago I was driving down the parkway to Cape May, and in front of me was a young girl (in a Jeep Grand Cherokee, mind you) going all over the place because she was taking selfies. My jaw nearly dropped to the floor.
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But if I'm not constantly scrolling TikTok I'll have to sit alone with my thoughts, and that's unbearable. /s
There is a serious mental health crisis in the human population, and I'm not just referring to homeless people screaming nonsense/violent criminals/conspiracy theorists. The overwhelming majority of people have literally 0 ability to just exist with themselves in silence for even a couple of minutes at a time. They're like toddlers, requiring constant, all-consuming stimulation or they will literally mentally break down. It's so fucking frightening how incapable people are of just being. Of concentrating on a task at hand, or reflecting on their thoughts, or considering solutions to a problem, rather than being fed video stimulus.
I work with teenagers, and there is a huge swath of kids in my classroom that will literally throw a kicking and screaming temper tantrum if they can't have their phone in front of their face. These are people that are very nearly legal adults. We see the same reactions from adults who get told "no" for even the most insane, entitled demands of retail workers, restaurant staff, and government employees trying to literally help them acquire social services.
I'm genuinely frightened going out into public now; humans, by and large, seem completely incapable of behaving like adults.
Reading some of the posts r/teachers it's scary at the level of societal decay happening among the younger generations enabled largely by Gen X. Even College/University is no longer safe from tech addiction.
Thank you for posting what I’ve been thinking about for a few years now. At first I blamed it on the pandemic lock down but I now feel it is social media driving the insanity. I wish I had THE answer.
Maybe if we could start with the next generation and teach “human” interaction vs “technology” interaction. Social Groups vs Social Media. Limit children’s phone to making voice calls only. Require adult supervision of computer time.
I remember saying to my parents “I’m bored”. The response was always “go see what is boring your friends today”. Some how being bored together was emotionally satisfying. AND G-D help us if we got ourselves into trouble, and the definition of trouble was our parents. We knew the police in town and more importantly they knew us. We were always greeted with “hello boys staying out of trouble, do your parents know what you’re up to?”
Route 78 used to be king of accidents, now its infamously route 3
Here is some music to listen to while you're stuck in traffic:
Good grief. I haven’t heard that first track in decades. Probably heard it on Doctor Demento back in the 80s.
What about Danger Zone is that fitting
Last night about 9 pm on RT 3 west between exits for RT 17 and RT 21 someone with old black SUV stopped in the middle lane. They only had position lights on. I was maybe 7 or 8 car behind them and luckily managed to change lanes in time without smacking in to anyone at 50 mph.
Others in front of me were not that lucky. They had to stop behind this person.
Think about GS Parkway south bound at Essex toll plaza… shit happens every morning due to the fucking toll taking system. Why the fuck they need to have 20 toll both on a 4 lane road way? Piece of shit design and implementation. Just put high speed E-ZPass tag reading system like the NY highway, and all the problems are solved.
They plan on demolishing all the toll booths along the Parkway starting next yr.
I can’t believe people use these roads and still won’t get EZPass. Luddites.
The problem is with this shit EZ pass actually. The car has to stop for this shit. They can just scan the tag from the top.
They need to install camera toll system like the highway upstate NY. No car has to stop, no need to slow down..
My bad I'll try harder
So glad I no longer have to go on route 3 again - such a shit show
Has not changed in over 30 yeas I commuted from Bayonne to Wayne on Rt. 3 everyday for 20 years. I personally got into 2 accidents at the 3/46 merge - neither my fault and one I was lucky to walk away thanks to my seatbelt.
The worse times were bad weather days and early spring and late fall when the road glare peered over the hill near Hoffman-LaRoche.
I learned the short cuts through Clifton to bypass the routine accidents that were about 1 every 2 weeks.
>has not changed
The numbers tell a different story. Fatal car accidents are rising at an alarming rate. This is a pretty stark change over the last few decades.
Yeah, it's getting worse sadly. Bad driving, distracted driving, stupid driving, phones, you name it. I feel like I narrowly avoid getting hit at least twice a day.
What streets are the clifton shortcuts?
The street behind Trader Joe's, Brook, Van Houten. Shhh don't tell anyone
> The street behind Trader Joe's,
Delete this.
Don't repeat it. Also, delete that.
Way to blow the locals spot. 😂
Van Houten isn’t the greatest idea. Lots of lights. One lane each way, one double parked car will block you. Also when it snows, they just plow to the sides, and it gets narrower and narrower, when you go past School 3 there’s barely room for one lane between the parked cars as you near springtime.
Yup and the after school traffic is worse then rush house, every car has some screaming kids in it alongside the distracted by cell phone drivers.
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I would zigzag over to Rt 7 into Kearney routinely
Literally was thinking that this morning as I was sitting in traffic at 6:45. 3 days this week RT3 was shut down. Twice east bound, once west bound. It has not been a good week for commuters on rt3
Lmao I screamed this in my car a few months ago.
JUST STOP CRASHING
Haha. Welcome to jersey. Rt 3 is horrible all the time but when it rains look out, people forget how to drive
Like this morning. It was a run time /s
I WFH in the northern lands, occasionally I have to drive to Secaucus for meetings and I always describe Rte 3 as Mad Max. I don't get out much though..
Or shaving or putting on makeup. Get up earlier jackwagons
I’ve been noticing more and more people driving on local roads at like 15mph. That infuriating style of driving where they always have their brakes on, pause at EVERY intersection, light turns green and they SLOOOOOOWLY start moving
Sorry, no, I plan to continue crashing on Rt 3, it's the only thing bringing excitement to my humdrum existence.
now im just gonna crash harder
Apparently they cannot. I saw 2 crashes this morning. One on the eastbound side near the 21 ramp and one westbound in Lyndhurst. This is just crazy.
PUT THE GODDAMN PHONES DOWN!!
Yesterday it took me over an hour to get to work where it usually takes me 35-40 mins. I got to work 20 mins late and thank god my boss is the type who does not care, but it's still annoying. In general Rt 3 has gotten worse, especially at night. And it doesn't help that I need to drive it a lot.
We don’t need better drives, we just need less drivers lol. Improve busses and trains so dumbass don’t have to drive
Me two movement. See a few a week on route 1. Was stuck in an hour traffic two days ago. It's the me two movement and lack of patience that cause accidents and traffic. While I was stuck in traffic behind a semi, not one person wanted to let him merge into one lane. Instead, the opposite lane all tried to rush and cut the semi off attempting to get in front of semi. I have no idea where all those people thought they were going but they literally almost caused a pile up. People don't understand it's this behavior that causes the traffic in the first place.
What in the actual fuck does the me too movement, a societal reckoning with sexual harassment and assault, have to do with traffic?
No no no. They're talking about the "me two" movement. Totally different ;)
This is cancel culture.
Huh?
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