PalPubPull t1_jaotj8c wrote on March 2, 2023 at 11:44 PM

Reply to comment by Wrinklestiltskin in Visiting Birmingham, AL. Looks like someone has Dr. Brad Bradshaw beat in the sign department. by arcticmischief

This is so random, as in what does this have to do with driver behavior?

I will say we traveled through Birmingham recently and it was mostly fine, but Florida was a madhouse for me.

I saw an emergency vehicle a few hundred yards behind me and pulled to the shoulder on the highway in October.

Not one single car yielded before or after me. Never seen anything like it. They didn't give a fuck.

My cousin who lives down there blamed it on the vacationers, but there is no way all 100 cars that interacted with this in my vicinity were all vacationers.

We have some bad drivers and decision-makers, but other than the odd occasion of one or two drivers that didn't yield in similar situations, I'd never seen anything like that.

Wrinklestiltskin t1_japkh1o wrote on March 3, 2023 at 3:09 AM

Florida is certainly bad too. Lived there for a while. Some of the worst driving I've ever seen tho is driving thru Montgomery and Birmingham. Been very consistent over the years driving between here and Florida.

Just crazy reckless aggressive driving, like one pickup tearing down the grass beside the road and weaving back into traffic wherever he wanted. So many close calls and having to drive so defensively. I've learned to time my drives to avoid rush hour.

I just see people here complain about our drivers, but they're not particularly bad, as far as cities go. Some cities are particularly bad, but I think size is a big factor. Springfield can be frustrating, but it doesn't have big city crazy traffic.