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To: weegee
I have lived in the Houston aera my whole life. This is not news to me. People in this town drive like a cross betwee NASCAR and a kamakazi, with all the survival instincts of a manically depressed lemming. In fact I was rea ended stoped at a light last month, the drive of the other car just had to take that call on his cell phone.
7 posted on 04/19/2004 10:56:45 AM PDT by TXBSAFH (KILL-9 needs no justification.)
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To: TXBSAFH
People in this town drive like a cross betwee NASCAR and a kamakazi, with all the survival instincts of a manically depressed lemming. In fact I was rea ended stoped at a light last month, the drive of the other car just had to take that call on his cell phone.

And that's just the Metro Bus drivers (ba-dat boom! < /rimshot>). Seriously folks, the bus drivers in this town bully cars with those buses that can't even fit in a single lane especially on Westheimer which, if we all recall, years ago (over a decade) was widened by repainting the stripes from 3 lanes to 4 (or was that 4 to 5?).

I nearly got sideswiped by a bus driver doing 55MPH on Westheimer in a 35 zone. He wasn't even doing "traffic" speed (which was more around 40-42). I put my window down and shouted at him to SLOW IT DOWN when I got stopped next to him at a light (he had his driver's window open). I was already outraged from a Metor Bus driver who along this same route had tried to block my exit from a gas station driveway.

I've reported a few bus drivers to Metro but that takes a really offensive driver (and even then I haven't reported all of them). The city is libel for the accidents they get into (and that includes injuries to the passengers).

I've seen the video of a Metrorail driver bullying a car to get off the tracks (where it was supposed to be to wait to make a left turn). The operator blew his horn until the guy made an illegal left turn (against the light and into oncoming traffic); I thought Metro/City of Houston/HPD/The Comical's stance was that drivers shouldn't make illegal left turns.

I've also seen something else; do the light stay red in all 4 directions now when a Metrorail approaches? I saw a Metrorail blast the horn (but no slow down) as it ran right through a red light (no cars in the area). Even emergency vehicles approach a red light with caution when sirens are blaring.

10 posted on 04/19/2004 11:09:54 AM PDT by weegee (Maybe Urban Outfitters should sell t-shirts that say "Voting Democrat is for Old Dead People.")
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