November 1, 20187 yr 14 hours ago, Lat22 said: How is your suspension holding up? I have a truck. I just get an alignment every 6 months or so.
November 8, 20187 yr Noticed lately that people are just running red lights if traffic isn’t coming the other way. An example was tonight. Sitting at a stop light on Louisiana and there’s no traffic coming the other way. Car in front of me just goes. The light turned green probably 10 seconds later.
November 8, 20187 yr 10 hours ago, Pancho Negro said: Noticed lately that people are just running red lights if traffic isn’t coming the other way. An example was tonight. Sitting at a stop light on Louisiana and there’s no traffic coming the other way. Car in front of me just goes. The light turned green probably 10 seconds later. Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?
November 8, 20187 yr If you've entered the intersection when the light is yellow, even if it turns red as your car is going through, it's legal. Look out motherfuckers, I'm coming.
November 8, 20187 yr 11 hours ago, Pancho Negro said: Noticed lately that people are just running red lights if traffic isn’t coming the other way. An example was tonight. Sitting at a stop light on Louisiana and there’s no traffic coming the other way. Car in front of me just goes. The light turned green probably 10 seconds later. I do this only when I am out on 242 and stopped at a light to turn left. It scares the fuck out of me sitting in that lane with all of the 18 wheelers rolling by out there. If there is nobody else around, I go ahead and get the fuck out of the way.
November 8, 20187 yr I've treated red lights as a stop signs when out in BFE. I'm tempted to do it other times when no one is around, but just know a cop is sitting around the corner waiting for me.
November 8, 20187 yr 11 hours ago, Pancho Negro said: Noticed lately that people are just running red lights if traffic isn’t coming the other way. An example was tonight. Sitting at a stop light on Louisiana and there’s no traffic coming the other way. Car in front of me just goes. The light turned green probably 10 seconds later. What? I stopped.
November 8, 20187 yr Was on Katy Freeway westbound yesterday. The TX state troopers were patrolling and pulling over drivers between 610 and BW8. I saw 3 stops on the shoulder. I was behind a 4th active stop in the main lanes. The trooper was about a car length and a half behind his quarry with the rolllers rolling. The duo was making its way across lanes to the right shoulder and maintaining the 1.5 carlength spacing. As they got to the far right lane before the shoulder a 3rd car driven by a woman joined the dance and merged between the trooper and offender as she seemed to be suddenly concerned about missing her exit. The trooper was nonplussed with her act and she soon became the focus of his ire. Just when I thought I’d seen it all.
December 10, 20187 yr On 9/6/2018 at 4:36 PM, mapplewhite132 said: I actually never spoke to him because I was worried I'd lose my temper and hit him. It was satisfying seeing the cops take him to jail for reckless driving after watching the dash cam footage. Did he try to lie his way out of it?
December 10, 20187 yr saw that we had more giant spools on the highways https://abc13.com/traffic/drivers-dodge-large-spool-rolling-down-highway-/4854660/
December 10, 20187 yr On 10/27/2018 at 6:46 AM, Stoogey said: In Illinois, trucks must stay in the right lanes. This should be law everywhere.
December 10, 20187 yr 15 minutes ago, Pancho Negro said: Prepare yourself Seem like a great idea in a city that tends to flood ...
December 10, 20187 yr 4 minutes ago, Smax said: Seem like a great idea in a city that tends to flood ... how many more acre-feet of detention pond is a freeway?
December 11, 20187 yr 16 hours ago, Chewbacca said: Did he try to lie his way out of it? Yeah, he told the cops that someone from the main lanes swerved into his lane forcing him to go through the barrier. I let him tell the cops his lie before I told them I had a video of the accident. Guy was a piece of shit.
December 11, 20187 yr 18 hours ago, Pancho Negro said: Prepare yourself This was first floated about 18-24 months ago to the public. I just don't see the logic.
December 11, 20187 yr 2 minutes ago, Macanudo said: This was first floated about 18-24 months ago to the public. I just don't see the logic. ISWYDT Edited December 11, 20187 yr by NeverMarryAStripper
December 11, 20187 yr 18 hours ago, Pancho Negro said: Prepare yourself That makes zero sense in Houston, but hey, their engineers approved it.
December 12, 20187 yr His words: I was in the middle of where the bus was and I was in the right lane. He switched into my lane forcing me off the road. The 18wheeler incident happened on the overpass from i10 West to 610North where there are only 2 lanes and railing. I was again around the middle when he cut over, I sped up to try to avoid the collision and couldn't. Slowing down would have caused him to crunch me with his trailer. He hit me with the cab on my driver's side. We slowed down, I stopped and then he ran into me again.Blindspot diagram: Interesting you wanted to double down on this. I did not write up an exact scenario due to this being a message board. But in one case I avoided a collision by utilizing the emergency lane. In the other I was hit 2x by the same 18 wheeler and yet in your own graphic which shows the 18 wheeler could see me, and I suppose he had a blind spot in front of his vehicle too when he rear ended me as well. I guess the onus is on the other drivers because 18 wheelers cannot see in front of them or around them, yet it must be my fault cause the fucker hit me. Strange how the cop and his company didn’t see it your way.
December 12, 20187 yr The picture don't lie. i went by what you said in your post. If it's different than that, then learn how to communicate better. Cops are wrong all the time. just ask Surly. You've had two wrecks with large vehicles. i have had zero. There is virtually no fucking way you drive more miles than I do in the same environment, but what the fuck do I know? I nailed it on the first response and stand by it. Edited December 12, 20187 yr by slorch
December 12, 20187 yr Accidents are preventable. Grim reaper, or the repair shop; don't really give a fuck whose fault it was.
December 13, 20187 yr On 12/10/2018 at 4:39 PM, Smax said: Seem like a great idea in a city that tends to flood ... That and the soil in those areas being complete shit is going cause a nightmarish, dangerous construction situation.
December 13, 20187 yr Upside is that something like that can prevent house flooding so I can see the logic. Ex A: BW8 flooding during Harvey
December 13, 20187 yr On 12/11/2018 at 9:44 AM, Lobwedgephil said: That makes zero sense in Houston, but hey, their engineers approved it. I didn't realize TxDOT means Houston engineers.
December 14, 20187 yr traffic lights are malfunctioning in memorial park as they pretty much always do after any sort of nasty weather. of course none of the idiots are stopping. 544.007(i) motherfuckers.
December 14, 20187 yr 28 minutes ago, elfenix said: 544.007(i) motherfuckers. For those of us who aren't ambulance chasers: (i) An operator of a vehicle facing a traffic-control signal, other than a freeway entrance ramp control signal or a pedestrian hybrid beacon, that does not display an indication in any of the signal heads shall stop as provided by Section 544.010 as if the intersection had a stop sign.
December 14, 20187 yr I didn't realize TxDOT means Houston engineers.Which school pumps out thousands of shitty civil engineers a year?
December 14, 20187 yr 1 minute ago, DaysOff said: On 12/13/2018 at 9:08 AM, UDontKnow said: I didn't realize TxDOT means Houston engineers. Which school pumps out thousands of shitty civil engineers a year? (pretty sure the answer isn't Houston.)
December 14, 20187 yr On 10/31/2018 at 4:31 PM, RPM said: They don't restrain their shitty driving to Houston. A Houston woman was killed when her Chevrolet Spark car struck the back of a tractor trailer Sunday afternoon on U.S. 81/287 south of Alvord, according to Department of Public Safety spokesman Ricky Hunter. Hunter said preliminary investigation indicates the driver of the Chevy, identified as 36-year-old Tiffany Ann Rosario, was traveling south on U.S. 81/287 and attempted to pass another vehicle on the shoulder of the roadway when she collided with the tractor trailer. The impact wedged Rosario’s car underneath the tractor trailer, collapsing a majority of the vehicle. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Darwin award.
January 16, 20196 yr brazos is a one-way the far left lane on brazos is left turn only the street in front of you is st. joseph's that turns into the on ramp to 45. it is also a one-way. it is legal to turn left on a red light from one one-way to another when no cars are coming. PLEASE. TURN LEFT.
March 23, 20232 yr I really hate driving in this fucking city. I commute twice a week from NW Houston to the Woodlands. At that time in the morning there are so many landscape service trucks and trailers on the beltway and also I-45. At a toll plaza watched two cars come extremely close to being sideswiped by trailers. Both cars had to swerve into the next lane to avoid being hit. Yesterday I saw one trailer throwing chunks of tire and sparks all over the cars behind it on 45 from a blow out. Motherfucker wasn’t pulling over. Just kept driving 70mph. I’m not particularly interested in dying to commute to my job.
March 24, 20232 yr 18 hours ago, tx 3 putt said: Houston, going to Houston. Mercedes with a goat in back That's not a Houston thing, It's an Aggie thing.
March 24, 20232 yr After moving from Houston to Austin... every time I come back I'm overwhelmed by the scale and madness of Houston's freeways. Not to mention Houston excels at red light running and blocking someone from merging into a lane even with a blinker on.
March 24, 20232 yr 27 minutes ago, texasdago said: After moving from Houston to Austin... every time I come back I'm overwhelmed by the scale and madness of Houston's freeways. Not to mention Houston excels at red light running and blocking someone from merging into a lane even with a blinker on. The problem is using your blinker. In the 18 months I lived in Houston, I realized if you want to change lanes without someone speeding up to cut you off, it’s essential to not use your blinker.
March 24, 20232 yr 6 hours ago, texasdago said: After moving from Houston to Austin... every time I come back I'm overwhelmed by the scale and madness of Houston's freeways. Not to mention Houston excels at red light running and blocking someone from merging into a lane even with a blinker on. I still think Houston's drivers are, on average, in a whole 'nother league of driving skill than Austin. If there's anything other than clear skies here it's absolute chaos and the only thing that keeps our fatalities statistics out of the headlines is the congestion.
March 24, 20232 yr I think Austin drivers are awful. Houston drivers are more aggressive. I prefer assertive drivers. Timid drivers are annoying and dangerous too.
March 24, 20232 yr 100% agree with these two postsAustin drivers drive with no sense of purpose. Always in the wrong lane until the last minute etc. And red light running has picked up a ton in Austin I’ve noticed. Especially at those new diamond intersections or whatever they are called
March 25, 20232 yr I noticed the red-light running is more frequent than I remember. Made me wonder if they yellow lights are shorter than they used to be.
March 25, 20232 yr 23 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said: I think Austin drivers are awful. Houston drivers are more aggressive. I prefer assertive drivers. Timid drivers are annoying and dangerous too. Yep. You better be on top of your game in Houston during the week. Double the speed limit isn't uncommon on any street wider than 2 lanes. The weekends are different. People drive like they have their grandma in the car with a crock pot full of soup in the back seat.
March 26, 20232 yr 8 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said: Yep. You better be on top of your game in Houston during the week. Double the speed limit isn't uncommon on any street wider than 2 lanes. The weekends are different. People drive like they have their grandma in the car with a crock pot full of soup in the back seat. That’s not skill though. Reckless disregard for other peoples health
March 26, 20232 yr That’s not skill though. Reckless disregard for other peoples health But it’s predictable. In Houston, everyone is a psychopath trying to kill me. I know what that looks like, and can predict it.In Austin, everyone has their head up their ass, and will realize at the last second that they need to go left…so they turn from the right lane across three lanes with no warning. Every driver in Austin is a “crazy Ivan” waiting to happen.
March 26, 20232 yr On 3/23/2023 at 7:14 AM, Patricio Swayze said: I really hate driving in this fucking city. I commute twice a week from NW Houston to the Woodlands. At that time in the morning there are so many landscape service trucks and trailers on the beltway and also I-45. At a toll plaza watched two cars come extremely close to being sideswiped by trailers. Both cars had to swerve into the next lane to avoid being hit. Yesterday I saw one trailer throwing chunks of tire and sparks all over the cars behind it on 45 from a blow out. Motherfucker wasn’t pulling over. Just kept driving 70mph. I’m not particularly interested in dying to commute to my job. The landscape trailers have been the worst development in the city, from a traffic perspective. Companies like Trailer, Wheel and Frame have exploded the practice of too many service companies in hauling around their entire shop/business. I find the drivers of the trailers drive can simultaneously drive too aggressive and timid. And they block residential streets, with lead to bottlenecks on semi-busy streets. not too mention that some of these trailers have zero business on the road. as far as people running red lights, you’re a fool if you don’t pause and look before going on green. But bitching about it is like complaining about rain.
March 26, 20232 yr 18 hours ago, closetohumping said: That’s not skill though. Reckless disregard for other peoples health I didn’t mean it as a skill thing. Just a keep your head on swivel thing. Houston is just insanely aggressive. I’ve had HISD buses cut me off at 630 in the morning. Please God, don’t flick off or follow bad drivers. Just too many close calls for comfort. I’m out of that business.
March 26, 20232 yr 26 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said: I didn’t mean it as a skill thing. Just a keep your head on swivel thing. Houston is just insanely aggressive. I’ve had HISD buses cut me off at 630 in the morning. Please God, don’t flick off or follow bad drivers. Just too many close calls for comfort. I’m out of that business. There’s a good chance the driver in Texas could be carrying drivers in northeast are aggressive as well Edited March 26, 20232 yr by closetohumping
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