smartguy1337
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Oct 25, 2024 3:20 PM
smartguy1337
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Rips4w
In a perfect world, no one would leave a gap for any of those cunts, forcing them to sit there until hours later when traffic finally lightens up. But, guess what...
Panicpeace
As a contractor that carpools in a work van, 99% of my fellow tradesmen cry like babies when they see this and refuse to wait in line.
gfinkecassidy
This is every day of that damn exit nobody follows the rules or anything the cops are there different days doesn't change a thing I hate that exit so bad it's always an accident waiting to happen and even then there was some teenagers in cars playing games slamming on the brakes and seeing if people would hit them and they were laughing and sharing when they did it so I called the cops and the cops will wait for him at that exit I gave them all the license plates and the models of the cars
Teratoid
Had a guy do this to my wife while she's was driving; pulled right up next to her to force her to let him in. She could have grabbed his passenger side door handle.
I yelled through her window that he "shouldn't risk it, our car is worth WAY less than his" he checked out our car and agreed and backed off. Lol
medimr
"All of these people stopped near my offramp must be taking a pee break, I'll just keep driving!"
B5Geek
This is why 'Zipper Merge' is a bad idea and doesn't work.
skipweasel
I've seen the police (in the UK) stand on the point and send cars in the wrong way on to the next junction.
WeatherWiz
Looks like NY license plates. That’s about right.
KillTimeAndLife
That is the NY exit to Brooklyn
KnifeKnut
Sometimes it is bad freeway design that causes this, but not in this case https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZstJoGq9b4iibiaq7
GorgoZilla
that's bad freeway design. it dumps out onto a barely a 1/8th mile before hitting a traffic light and you have to contend with a surface street traffic if you want to make a right turn
ThatMangoAteMyBabyy
It’s funny how nobody goes on a rant about the City planners just the way people try to adapt to the problems that are caused …
vincentsl
Exit 31 on the BQE
JarJarDrinks
"I am too important to wait in line, I need to cut in front of you"
Flareside
And I will blow a gasket and threaten your life if you do not let me in.
horseWnoname
you mean go to williamsburg? but seriously, that offramp isn't long enough for the traffic volume. It's maybe 1000 feet. at least only the right lane of traffic is blocked, assuming there's more line behind the photo. also, since its literally always like this, stay left. hell, i try not to drive the BQE at all.
bhobby1212
There is an exit on the BWI parkway that if you leave at 630am you can make it to work by 7am but if you leave at 635 you will get there by noon.
delpharseven
Remember, a bad driver never misses their exit.
smartguy1337
They didn't near miss the exit, they're just jumping the queue because they've decided they don't want to wait.
Newitt
Exit is either badly designed or traffic growth patterns have rendered it obsolete.
delpharseven
Traffic will always outgrow capacity until we stop designing everything around cars.
Kristoph57
Its in NYC so.. both? Both is good.
medimr
Well, there is a stoplight *right there*...so yeah. Bad design that didn't take traffic growth into account.
ICampOntheFirstDate
If the line is out into the freeway, there's no exit I need that badly. I'll always bypass, take the next, and reroute my way back.
skipweasel
Somethings it's a long way - we missed an exit in France (long story) and it was nearly 80 miles to get back.
CallMeTrix
Ya that's not always feasible when a city block can take you 45 minutes to backtrack.
KnifeKnut
In Brooklyn, 1.5 miles out of your way is a pretty long distance. https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZstJoGq9b4iibiaq7
dashers
1.5 miles? That's like 3 minutes to drive.
pelon77Cleveland
I am often set to wonder if people have started to suck a lot more than they used to when I was a kid, or that as I got older, did I just run into so many ass—hats that my tolerance has lowered. Either way, this is a real POS move.
Lantric
We have basically the same highways as we did back in 1990 but we have 280 million drivers instead of 170 million. We have 65% more people on the roads over the past 30 years and have done nothing to address the problems this has caused. Just letting people work from home again would solve so much of the crisis but it was making people to happy forcing companies to recall all of their workers.
waeraj
More people = more suckage to see.
Grimvarr
I too feel like people have gotten cuntier over the years. Like everybody is only looking out for themselves and everybody else can get bent, as it were.
69thStPepper
The higher density of idiots without corresponding investments in infrastructure explains most of the described affect
HypnoCT
I’ve been commuting in the DC area for over 20 years now. There used to just be 2 or 3 of these a-holes, now it’s a couple dozen. It’s gotten more crowded here, but it’s definitely gotten worse. But as irritated as I get as the people trying to cut in, I get freaking absolutely livid at the morons who let them in.
SleepyKitten
NoVA driving isn't for the faint of heart.
AlackofPotassiumcankill
A few moto cops on 2 of 5 days would be a well deserved ticket fest for those clowns. All 'uh Dem!
spittleteets
Seriously tho, this is one of the *very few* scenarios I advocate for police intervention.
CallMeTrix
Because it's one of the very few scenarios in which an officer WOULD be useful! We do need law enforcement, but we do NOT need the pigs we have now.
spittleteets
Agreed. Cops are intrinsically reactive and do not stop most illegal behaviors. Also, the issue is that most highways and parkways are State Parkways and as such State Jurisdiction, so NYPD can't do anything here despite there being waaaay more of them than NYS troopers.