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Maybe it's only bad with the Massholes here in Boston in the financial district, but I am constantly slamming on my brakes for someone who crosses the intersection when I have a green light. Worse than that, although that is more than irritating in its own right, are the people who walk into the street from in between parked cars on the side of the road. At least twice this morning on my commute, I almost clipped some idiot that tried to run across the street before I got there.

I've cracked, I can't take it anymore. If you walk into a busy downtown street, I will hit you like two teenagers from Atlanta.

As a fellow downtown worker, I endorse this rant. Austin has a big itinerant population that either doesn't know or doesn't particularly care about when it crosses busy roads.

I have a rant the other way around:

When I just waited two light cycles to get my walk sign, you better not make your right-on-red turn or your yeild-on-green left and expect me to stop for you.

Somedays I really wish we could turn jaywalker target practice into a sanctioned Olympic sport, with points awarded for the number of times the jaywalker bounces off your hood and over the roof before smacking the pavement.

TheoSqua wrote:I have a rant the other way around:

When I just waited two light cycles to get my walk sign, you better not make your right-on-red turn or your yeild-on-green left and expect me to stop for you.

At least pick up the pace instead of acting like it is time for a Sunday stroll.....

Ohhh..quality rant. I failed my first driving test because of one such moron...He decided to just walk at a leisurely pace when it was 'no go' for him....made me stop and by the time he passed, my light turned red & I was caught on the crosswalk. Along comes another pedestrian, who had to go around my car, which forced the cop to fail me. While I was complimented for my awareness with the first ped, I was reprimanded for the next one. I wanted to go back to that place, track down that fellow & beat him to pulp...Ironically, I work at the building by the intersection now & knowing the geniuses that I work with, must have been one of them.

I thought this was a punchline to a religious joke.

TheoSqua wrote:I have a rant the other way around:

When I just waited two light cycles to get my walk sign, you better not make your right-on-red turn or your yeild-on-green left and expect me to stop for you.

This is a pedestrian city, pedestrians have the right of way for all left or right turns. I have to wait for you, it's the law. We've taken the thinking out of the process, there's a hand or a walking man. I got in a shouting match with some guy who was standing in the intersection, I told him to get out of the road and he was livid that I thought I had the right of way. Granted, my light was green and he had a huge blinking sign in his face that said "DON'T WALK!!" What was I thinking?