NationStates Jolt Archive

Recently Miami has been identified as the US city with the most Road Rage, followed by Phoenix, New York, Los Angeles and Boston. I wonder why they test cities and not entire states? If they did I think New Jersey would rank fairly high. What's the road rage situation where you're at?


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060516/ap_on_re_us/road_rage

Not too bad here .. some but the biggest city within a hour and half drive from here is only 60 thousand

Bad street layout but not THAT much traffic

Recently Miami has been identified as the US city with the most Road Rage, followed by Phoenix, New York, Los Angeles and Boston. I wonder why they test cities and not entire states? If they did I think New Jersey would rank fairly high. What's the road rage situation where you're at?



I completely agree with your statement about not testing entire states, Jersey and PA are terrible in terms of state wide road rage, Jersey is definitely worse than NYC (except for Manhattan, but then again it's Manhattan) from what I experienced in my 2 years of living on Staten Island.

Where I live now however is a different story, Savannah's drivers are generally nice couple assholes here and there, but wherever you go the assholes will follow.

It depends on whether you're in a car or on foot in Toronto. If you're on foot, don't say anything and wait for the lights, so no one gets hurt. :D

It depends on whether you're in a car or on foot in Toronto. If you're on foot, don't say anything and wait for the lights, so no one gets hurt. :D

I heard from a friend who visited toronto can sometimes be compared to NYC in terms of bad traffic, and road rage....that true?

Ranking Miami as the worst road rage city is right on the money. Miami is terrible, too much conjestion, too many tourists and too many stupid people.

As for New Jersey, I think people here are a bit more civilized once you get off the turnpike. But they are not far off.

Ranking Miami as the worst road rage city is right on the money. Miami is terrible, too much conjestion, too many tourists and too many stupid people.

As for New Jersey, I think people here are a bit more civilized once you get off the turnpike. But they are not far off.I'm not in Miami--I'm just up I-95 from there in Fort Lauderdale--but I have a theory as to why driving is so bad around here (and bad driving begets road rage, I think).

It's because there's no shared knowledge of "how to drive locally" in south Florida. Natives are more uncommon than gators around here--everyone, it seems, is from somewhere else, and they all learned somewhere else, and they all brought their own idiosyncrasies and local habits with them. As a result, you get these clashes of driving ideology, so to speak, and when you factor in 6.5 million people with an area not really meant to hold that many (at least not the way south Florida is laid out, anyway), hot weather, short tempers, and a panoply of cultures, you get road rage.

I'm very surprised Seattle wasn't on the list. Seattle has a similar problem to Miami with regard to locals being rarer than transplants. Thing is, some of our more interesting driving transplants come from Asia. And while I'm sorry for perpetuating a stereotype in this forum, I have to admit that when I see something that incites rage with regard to stupid driving mistakes back home in Seattle, 7 times out of 10, there's an Asian at the wheel.

The other problem in my hometown is that the civic engineers, in their wisdom, decided that building a convention center over the freeway when it was at two lanes in each direction back in the 80s was a good idea. What that means is that you can depend on being delayed by anywhere from 30 minutes to 90 minutes if you're on your way to the airport from the north, which is south of downtown by another 15 miles. WSDOT really doesn't know what it's doing and needs a complete organizational enema. Add to that the fact that I-405, to the east across Lake Washington from Seattle, is an "experimental" section of interstate where they test new road technologies and construction stuff, which means that it's almost always under construction at some point along its 30 miles, and you get the road rage which comes from knowing there's only a relatively short distance to go and yet it will still take an hour. It's insane. It's so bad that Friday rush has diminished in favor of Thursday rush because everyone would leave for weekend stuff a day early in order to avoid Friday traffic. Thursday is now #1 bad day, and Friday has improved. Crazy.

Most of the road rage in my state comes from me

i live in Boston and travel to NYC every weekend and i must agree with these results. i travel a lot in the north east and down south but drivers in these two cities are just a-holes. i cant exclude myself because since i learned and always driven in boston if any one from another city or state will consider i hace road rage or am a aggresive driver.

Recently Miami has been identified as the US city with the most Road Rage, followed by Phoenix, New York, Los Angeles and Boston. I wonder why they test cities and not entire states? If they did I think New Jersey would rank fairly high. What's the road rage situation where you're at?


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060516/ap_on_re_us/road_rage
Freeway shootings done by me are down 30% since 2000, so it's getting better. We haven't won the war against me shooting other motorists on the freeway yet, but we have won some battles.

I'm very surprised Seattle wasn't on the list. Seattle has a similar problem to Miami with regard to locals being rarer than transplants. Thing is, some of our more interesting driving transplants come from Asia. And while I'm sorry for perpetuating a stereotype in this forum, I have to admit that when I see something that incites rage with regard to stupid driving mistakes back home in Seattle, 7 times out of 10, there's an Asian at the wheel.

I have a friend who moved here from Vietnam last year and he just got his license--he'll be the first to tell you that driving in Asia is a completely different ballgame. Fewer cars, more motos, and a complete and utter disregard for rules seems to be the way it is in Ho Chi Minh City, according to Hieu anyway.

I have a friend who moved here from Vietnam last year and he just got his license--he'll be the first to tell you that driving in Asia is a completely different ballgame. Fewer cars, more motos, and a complete and utter disregard for rules seems to be the way it is in Ho Chi Minh City, according to Hieu anyway.


Same with the Phillipines. Oh and I was just in Brussels, Belgium and they apparently used to not even have to take a driving test to get their license. It used to be that they merely needed to fill out a form and got it straight away.

Traffic isn't very bad where I live, although it's just starting to get annoying. The way the city is laid out was really only designed for maybe 15k people at most, but we're starting to edge 25-30k.

However, I did once make the very terribly horrible mistake of trying to drive in Paris once. That hour of trying to get out of Paris was probably more life threatening than my year in Iraq.

Same with the Phillipines. Oh and I was just in Brussels, Belgium and they apparently used to not even have to take a driving test to get their license. It used to be that they merely needed to fill out a form and got it straight away.
About four years ago when I was teaching in Arkansas, my Comp Tech students had to write a set of instructions as an assignment. One of my Bolivian exchange students wrote hers about how to get a driver's license. For every step (written test, driving test, etc), there was a second option--give someone the local equivalent of twenty bucks, and the way she worded it, it didn't really sound like going the legitimate route was much of an option. One of the funniest technical docs I've ever read.

i live in Boston and travel to NYC every weekend and i must agree with these results. i travel a lot in the north east and down south but drivers in these two cities are just a-holes. i cant exclude myself because since i learned and always driven in boston if any one from another city or state will consider i hace road rage or am a aggresive driver.
with boston, it isn't just cars. You have the T running in the streets in some areas, and, on campuses, tons of students who act like we own the streets (well, we do ;) ). Add that to the fact that red lights seem to have no meaning, weird street layout, and general bitterness, and you have a fun little party mix.


Next time you're on BU campus, please, don't target the students like the other drivers:p