Submitted by tall4win t3_yikhqz in rva

Fuck GRTC. Their drivers just blow through all of the roundabouts in church hill and without even a thought of yielding. I just had one come within 10 feet of running into me only to have the driver to scream out the window at me. Sorry just had to rant.

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RammmITTT t1_iuj4tmx wrote

Not making excuses for poor driving habits, but I feel for anyone who drives for a living. Who's felt it knows it.

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Anxious_Nights1 t1_iuj72xm wrote

Amen! It depends on the driver, but they rarely go the speed limit. I use both 12 and 13 and they fly down the road treating pedestrians as a nuisance.

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dreww4546 t1_iujd181 wrote

As a cyclist, I've almost been run down by them, like it was a sport .

But, as a passenger on a bus, I've seen 12 kinds of crazy harass the bus driver (and there have been a couple of assaults on drivers as well)

I think with the time schedules they have to keep, it's a tough job and not for everyone.

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WontArnett t1_iujtmg0 wrote

I’m that happened. Drivers are aggressively unpredictable out here.

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Hiltson87 t1_iuk5x1g wrote

The circles flat out shouldn't exist. Almost none of them have enough foot print for visibility, let alone enough room for anyone to be "in" the circles to yield to in the first place. All they do is introduce confusion into an intersection where there didn't used to be any. Nevermind how many people have zero idea how they're supposed to work and either just flat out stop and treat it like a stop sign or on the ones big enough to actually have traffic in them, just stop in the middle of them to let people.

The only ones in Church Hill that really work how they should are the one at the end of Jefferson and the one at the end of 25th by The Market. The rest of them are basically just planters shoved in the middle of intersections for no real reason.

Not excusing the drivers either, but this wasn't an issue before when there were stop signs instead of circles at a lot of these intersections.

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