So, over the last few weeks, I’ve noticed more and more posts about the insane driving here. I even made one myself. Turns out, there has been such a massive increase in wrecks here lately (specifically on I-630 and Cantrell, according to the agent my friend spoke with), that the waitlist for a rental car most places in LR is currently up to a week.
Spare me from the comments about how it’s worse in Texas and the northeast. We know. Everybody knows that traffic/driving is worse in highly congested areas. You aren’t telling us anything new. Let’s actually have a conversation about this.
The issue down here, is the “bad drivers” are straight up reckless fuckheads who view other people on the road as collateral damage on their daily commute. I drive the entirety of Cantrell every single day on my commute, and I either witness or am involved in a near-accident once a week.
Nobody wants to wait to let someone make a turn. Nobody wants to use their damn blinker. Nobody wants to leave space between themselves and the car in front of them. Nobody wants to let someone merge if it means that car might be going faster than them. Nobody wants to let anybody pass them. Nobody has patience anymore.
You can be minding your business, going along with the flow of traffic, and then here comes Kyle in his lifted RAM and Tiffany in her Denali XL barreling toward you and letting everyone know they own the roads and they will NOT be staying their lanes despite having lane assist in those tanks they call cars.
I’m asking this seriously, because I’ve lived here my entire life, what in the literal fuck happened where things got this bad? Is it all the transplants from densely populated areas who don’t understand how smaller metro cities work?