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Post by awesomeaasim on Jul 31, 2023 20:50:58 GMT -8
Curious question, RGR - I was rewatching your fun off topic video on bad Utah drivers and am curious what state do you prefer to drive in?
I live on Long Island and I see a lot of New York drivers making turns into the wrong lane, turning across traffic, slowing down traffic in the left lane, and cutting in front of turning drivers. New York driving is in general not fun.
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Post by Road Guy Rob on Aug 3, 2023 0:47:21 GMT -8
Hi! I partly moved to California because this state, despite its reputation, is pretty great for driving. Yes, a freeway in Los Angeles is miserable during commuting times. But after 7 at night, the freeways open up as magnificent racetracks until morning. Caltrans put a lot of thought into their system. And the biggest sin they committed was not anticipating that SO MANY people would show up to the party — more than can ever be accommodated through car travel alone.
But the attention to detail doesn't stop in the cities. Rural freeways are also well thought out, and travel pretty much anyplace in California is on safe highways that move pretty quickly. You can certainly notice a stark difference on US-199 as you cross into Oregon. The superelevation (race-track banking) flattens out and the speed limit tames down to just 35. Oregon has a different relationship with its roads, and for good or bad, speedy travel is much lower on their priorities.
My frustration level increases east of Chicago. The eastern tollways and Indiana Toll Road have such circuitous routing (trumpet interchange into another trumpet interchange) to force everyone through toll booths. It's quite inefficient. However, the travel plazas are quite fun.
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Post by RinRin Blissgreen on Aug 3, 2023 21:04:26 GMT -8
Same with me too! California is one state that is nice to drive in UNLESS you completely know what you are doing and paying extra attention to all the craziness out here. Even as I’ve only been back here living in Lakewood for almost 8 years now, I spent about 13 years of my life being in southern New Hampshire down in Londonderry (hey! I’m friends and once neighbors with Alex Hawk being your other RGR fan you know!) where the roads are so open (and also followed one to one to the exact pages of the national MUTCD PERFECTLY as NH DOT does it! Only drawback is Chris Sununu insists on keeping sequential numbering still while mile marker numbering is already federally mandated!) it’s literally a breeze to drive on them even back when I took driver’s ed with AAA Northern New England up in Merrimack in July 2014 with Dave Hargreaves and Bob Flight (I’m sorry Dave… I might’ve got your last name a bit butchered!) in both a 2007 Toyota Avalon and a 2003 stick shifter Chevy Impala with most of the work being done in my sister’s (then my dad’s!) 2009 Toyota Corolla that handled pretty easily when we went down near a few culdesacs at a few business parks only a mile down the road from our old house not far from I-93. I did an ok job at the time (despite backing up needing LOTS of work still!). Even as I still haven’t gotten my actual driver’s license and a vehicle still, I still would have to wait and see how driving California as compared to back in New Hampshire would put up to the test!
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Post by awesomeaasim on Aug 21, 2023 9:53:30 GMT -8
I feel like I-5, as well as the NJ Turnpike and the PA Turnpike, are really designed for very high speeds. Now I see why there is a speed limit - lower speeds mean less wasted gas. Germany wants to add a speed limit on the autobahn for that reason but it has gotten a lot of backlash.
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