Originally Posted by
dynaryder
Srsly? Come to DC. I'm not kidding. Come to DC,get a one day bikeshare pass or rent a bike,and ride around during rush hour.
DC invented the term 'aggressive driving'. For the past decade,our traffic fatality rate has been almost double the murder rate. Things have been slowly getting better,but they are still pretty bad. And if you want some scary numbers,look up biking fatalities for NYC.
BTW,where do you live?
Los Angeles.
Here left turners, or for that matter cars going straight, continuing to enter the intersection after the light is red is the biggest generic problem.
It does have a bit of a crossover, when the light starts with a left arrow and then changes to plain green they do the same pushing, which is sort of the same as far as the oncoming traffic goes. Well almost the same, the same annoyance wise, not quite as bad real danger wise as it is a continuing stream and one is slowing/not starting because of the car ahead.