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  1. #1
    Join Date
    Mar 2007
    Location
    Troutdale, OR
    Posts
    2,600
    I'm starting to hate driving. Before, it wasn't about liking or hating, it was ambivalent. But lately, I've encountered too many aggressive drivers, tail gating me because I'm doing the speed limit or heed the warning of slow down (those yellow sign with recommended speed) and actually go at the recommended speed to negotiate a hairpin turn. I've had cars racing me up to pass me on the on-ramp then to force me onto the shoulder on an on ramp to the highway ...

    It seems that the yahoo's don't learn. The said hairpin turn is claiming at least a car every two month. And today, I passed an power company crews replacing a sheared telephone pole on another road. It was splintered all the way through where the pole broke in half. Speed limit on the section is only 35 MPH. So how fast would you have to be traveling to shear a telephone pole in half?

    I wish I didn't have to drive anymore.

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Dec 2016
    Location
    Toronto
    Posts
    3
    Motorists always show bias towards cyclists. I don't understand why. We are never a race for them, still they pass us like we are using their private road. Male drivers are the craziest lots.

    I will show you a statistic between men and women drivers. https://www.autoloansolutions.ca/blo...-science-says/ On this blog there is a table of Driving Coefficients of the genders. Men cause more obstruction for the other road users. Sometimes, I felt like I'm invisible. One morning some years back, when I was cycling, a mad driver passed very closely to me almost knocking me off. He did it on purpose. Some people are like that.
    Last edited by vicyharper; 12-20-2016 at 10:09 PM.

 

 

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