To all of the people making u-turns at the detour on South Street and South Park: Learn to drive! The flashing red lights do not mean that you should make a dangerous and illegal maneuver in the middle of the intersection. It doesn’t mean that you can stop traffic because you’re late for work, or just have to get somewhere, or whatever. Drive around the block like everyone else, it doesn’t take that much time.
—Horrified Transit User
This article appears in Dec 10-16, 2009.
yeah, see near fender-benders every day at that intersection….
though I think you have to admit the way they have it tore up is pretty rediculous…
and the pilons are so far over the lane that the bus has to run over the curb to make the turn.
I understand the hospital parking lot still needs to be accessed but there has to be a better way than what they have set up there now….
You’re a transit rider and you’re complaining about how people drive?!? You should read a book during your commute and leave the driving to the people who are doing it. Isn’t transit supposed to be the alternative to having to deal with bullshit traffic? You can’t have it both ways.
Kay, The OP has every right to voice her concerns as one of the idiot car drivers is going to cause an accident that could involve a bus full of people. Just because she’s not behind the wheel doesn’t mean she can’t be concerned about her safety. Apparently you think that only the bus driver would be injured if a bus is involved in a collision and the passengers would be spared because they were reading books.
Is that the OP’s job? To ensure the safe maneuvering of a bus or to be a “back seat driver”? How is this helping? Does the OP have the same training as the bus driver? NO. STFU and read your book.
How is noticing something dangerous, and posting a bitch about it being a “backseat driver” exactly? What does any of this have to do with OP lack of training as a bus driver? OP wasn’t talking about the bus they were riding, they were talking about a car they saw that did something stupid and dangerous. Valid bitch.
I didn’t say it wasn’t a valid bitch. I just told the OP how to get over it. Besides, the backseat driver doesn’t have a clear perspective on the road. Ask any driver whose got a backseat driver freaking out.
Kays off her meds again – anyone send her that doubledong in lieu of her boytfriends small penis yet? jesus – read your fuckin book Kay and STFU
Yea also think – maybe this poster uses transit – ok – but does he/she see this happenning on the way to a bus stop – being a pedestrian that might cross this intersection and maybe not wanna be wiped out by a car thats been knocked the fuck out of the intersection ? hmmmmmmmm – me wonders where the thinking is – but as voice of reason states in his post – valid all the same – and transit users while not being buckled into their seat – withstand more serious injury if involved in a collision ?
I didn’t say you said it was a valid bitch, dummy. I said it was a valid bitch. lolz Kay reads WORDZ!
Put “backseat driver” back up your ass, it has nothing to do with this bitch. A backseat driver is a passenger who verbally pesters the driver SITTING NEXT TO THEM about how they are driving. Not someone who sees a car do a u-turn out the window of a bus and posts a bitch about it hours later. How do you not grasp this concept?
Oh yeah, you’re a dumbass… I almost forgot.
fizz, stop being a sheep and get over kay! =D hehehe.
But shes so fun to play with! I don’t wanna.
If Kay drives the way she talks and thinks – I’d be very SCARED veeeeeeery SCARED !!!!!
Yeah kay! Take that, kay! Okay?
be afraid people,be very afraid.there is a day coming,when they will(gasp) let women drive automobiles.my lord,what will we all do then.but get this,from what i have heard and read,women,most all antway,have fewer and less damaging accidents.guess they just know how to multitask better than us guys.kay,have at them.
don’t you guys get tired of being stupid?
The OP has the perspective of a backseat driver AND she arrived home alive, intact and likely close to on time… NOTHING to bitch about.
So which one of you bitches posted this? I’ll assume VOR since SHE’S so very sure about the gender of the OP. Why don’t you just sign your name? Scared of a good flaming?
lolololol Kay, you are so funny
The TERM “backseat driver” MEANS “A passenger who pesters the driver about their driving”. Thats what the words “backseat” and “driver” MEAN when you use them TOGETHER. It’s called a “term” or a “phrase”. GEDDIT YET? The driver and “backseat driver” have to be in THE SAME VEHICLE to exist. You cannot be a “backseat driver” if the driver is in a different vehicle.
You cannot be or have “the perspective of” a backseat driver by merely being a passenger on a separate vehicle, judging the driving of a driver in the vehicle you are not in!
I can’t believe you still don’t understand what I’m saying… Don’t use words if you don’t know what they mean. There is no difference between the OP and a pedestrian or someone looking out of a house window. Anyone who sees dangerous driving can and should be pissed about it no matter where they witness it from, why? Because it’s dangerous… for everyone! That driver OP bitched about could run you over tomorrow, sweet-cakes. You are sooo dumb, I love it.
Keep it coming sunshine!
fizz… have you ever driven a car? Admit it. You’re like 14 and have all the experience of a grape…. in winter.
Whether you speak up about it to the driver or bitch about your experience here your perspective is one and the same as that of a “backseat driver.” Too far over your head?
Go ahead, be pissed about what you see from the back of the bus or from the sidewalk but until you have the perspective of the driver, read your book and STFU
“Whether you speak up about it to the driver or bitch about your experience here your perspective is one and the same as that of a “backseat driver.”
wrong.
try again.
why bother? You’re not going to be driving for a few years AND you’re not in MY backseat.
If you can’t argue you’re point, assume things about your opponent that discredits them!
The best of kay’s strategies at work!
hey, you’re young. Is that a discredit to you? You know nothing about being in the driver’s seat nor the impact of a “backseat driver”. How is saying so a discredit to you? Perhaps pointing out that you speak from the side of your head (going on like you know something that you don’t) is a discredit to you. The fact that you figured it out is hardly worth discrediting you. Someone give this bitch a gold star.
I’ve already argued the point. You saying “wron,g try again” is no cause to elaborate. YOU go ahead and elaborate as to why my statement is incorrect, which it is not. Knock yourself out.
I already argued my point and made it clear, I said you were “wrong” and to “” because you continued to ignore it as always. I’m not going to keep on repeating myself, it’s tiresome.
And yeah saying someone is young is discrediting them. You are saying that I’m less experienced then you, so therefore my points aren’t as valid. It’s a cheap, lazy, and easy way to get the upper-hand in an anonymous argument.
If you really think I’m fourteen, then stop wasting your day arguing with a fourteen year old about the meaning of words.
If you’ll excuse me, I have to go to work. Yeah that’s right, this fourteen year old has a career, fuck yeah!
If you have no experience your opinion means nothing. Go ahead. Take it to heart. You have my blessing.
my poo smells funny.
I agree with you kay, if someone has no experience their opinion is compromised. But you can’t just accuse your opponent of being less experienced than you whenever you start to lose an argument… especially if that accusation is unfounded and impossible to prove, like in an anonymous online thread. “If” I have no experience you say… key word, “if”.
Oh well, this thread has died with zZz’s funny smelling poo.