I've had it with these stupid f'n red turn arrows

[DEAGLER]

Yep some red arrows are at the most useless intersections.

[rbeau30]

9/10, Ever since someone mentioned it, If I don't see Cockholster used in a rant it is not worthy of a perfect score.

[roberth]

Good one!

There are 2 explanations I can think of and both result in more tax revenue for the city. One is that they stop you so you'll look around and buy something impulsively and they'll collect some sales tax. The second is that the city/state gets 22 cents from every gallon of gas we buy so it behooves them to stall us and keep us burning gas.

[ray1970]

You obviously underestimate the stupidity of the common driver. These red arrows probably save thousands of lives every year. Maybe more.

Just because most of us are smart enough to yield to oncoming traffic doesn't mean everyone is.

They piss me off not just because I feel stupid sitting there when I could have safely turned twenty times but they screw up the whole process of natural selection.

[HoneyBadger]

9/10. Referencing Ebola or Ebola-sauce would have earned a 10/10. I feel your pain, brother. I think the only time it's a good idea is when the intersection is on the peak of a hill and you can't see if traffic is coming from the other side. A normal person wouldn't turn if they don't deem it to be safe, but there are a lot of idiots out there and I don't want to be one of their victims.

[Irving]

Seriously though, when was it decided that we were so f'n stupid as a society that we are incapable of deciding when it is safe to turn left?

Long before it was decided that we didn't know how to merge onto the highway properly. I NEVER stop for the traffic lights on highway on-ramps. I stop for the traffic, but not the lights.

I've been noticing that when my area of town was built, it must have been 20 times smaller, because every side street is a single lane, that grows a turn lane at each intersection. The issue is that it grows a left turn only lane, and the combo lane is straight/right. So instead of combining all the traffic that actually can't proceed past a red light (straight and left turning), I always get stuck behind the 1 in 20 drivers actually trying to go straight, when I could have made a right on red 2 minutes before. It's been bugging me in my neighborhood for at least a year now, but I didn't think I could pull off a dedicated rant about it.

On the other hand, having been a liability claims adjuster for several years, I can tell you that there are MANY MANY people who can't manage a left turn without getting hit by oncoming traffic. With that in mind, I still prefer a blinking yellow over a red arrow. Hell, I'm all for more round-a-bouts.

[rbeau30]

...With that in mind, I still prefer a blinking yellow over a red arrow. Hell, I'm all for more round-a-bouts.

Even these frigging cockholsters that live here cannot negotiate a roundabout without killing a bunch of folks.

Not to take away from the OP, but I wish I had a penny for every deer-in-the-headlights look I see when the dumb shits of this state go to a lighted intersection with one way flashing red and the other way flashing yellow. If you do what YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO at this situation you are liable to get killed.

[Irving]

Don't get me started on flashing red/yellow and completely out lights. There aren't that many traffic rules specifically concerning traffic lights, how difficult can it be?

[rbeau30]

Don't get me started on flashing red/yellow and completely out lights. There aren't that many traffic rules specifically concerning traffic lights, how difficult can it be?

Well nowadays, Operating a 2.5 thousand pound hunk of steel/aluminum/plastic/glass which could pass for a deadly weapon is seemingly SECONDARY to whatever else is going on in people's lives nowadays. (Facebook, texting, eating, attending to children, makeup, sex.)

[brutal]

8/10

Needs more f-bombs and some cowbell.