We are SO sick and tired of idiots passing on double yellow lines, WAY too closely and they come back over like a bat out of heck!

they speed, tailgate, irritate, don't use blinkers and the like!

Anyone else got driving gripes??

Tucson, Arizona, a nightmare!
First, we are a retirement, resort and college town. Those drivers are the worst.
Sports:
Running red lights
Turning left on red arrows if you are the third in line because one and two did so, why not?
Cutting each other off, it's hot, everyone is tired and no freeway system for one million people.

It's a nightmare here, winter visitors added to college students, and we have a large university here, make for a lot of fights and parking place stealing.

Honestly, we have no freeway system and over a million people so through ways are what someone decides is one! Our normal city streets are widened and widened to try to take up the slack. NOW, repair of the one freeway we have that goes on one side of the city so it is shut down.
Screaming, yelling and when you get home you have to rant about it so it is out of your system!
dancer

I sold my car a few months ago but, still drive my daughter's car in the country. Following tractors, narrow country lanes, townies driving like madmen, sheep, sheep and more sheep on each side of the road likely to jump in...not to mention that most roads have circulars (roundabouts)...now I can write a novel about that!

Roundabouts are big here too Lola. I think they are great, but have learned to catch that eye contact with the other driver, instead of insisting on my right of way.
Dancer, I'm amazed Tuscon Arizona doesn't have a freeway. That's insane with over 1 mil. residents. Maybe you should just all line up on the streets and scream till the government hears ya.

Thankfully, we have no real traffic on the freeways..but I'm sure we will get it eventually.

It's in town that bugs us. Our County Seat has grown tremendously in the last few years bringing more and more cars that have OLD people in them! The same number of roads though!

DH and I live in the county...45 minutes from town...WONDERFUL! There is no traffic light here at all..and we don't WANT one either!

But the highways are bad. We have folks driving over from Mexico with NO CLUE as to how to drive!! (Grrrrr!!!) They have no rules in Mexico either. They just drive...maybe closing their eyes and HOPING their cars, with hanging mufflers, gas leaks etc. make it to the destinations! Oh, yeah..and they overload them with JUNK on top of pick up trucks but not tied down correctly. And they chug-a-lug along in the right AND left lanes. Once I saw a lady's wheel fly off her car and she landed on the axle.

The idea, Hannelore, in Tucson, is to prevent us from becoming another Phoenix or L.A.
We are surrounded by mountains on three sides and the cities members are irritated when more and more people move to Arizona. Phoenix is the second fastest growing city in the country right now and Tucson doesn't want any of it. It wants to be the resort town it is and remain exclusive.
So far they have blocked much growth but still, a freeway for we who live here already is what we need. We are told that it is too expensive.
dancer

We travel to Tucson now and then (my stepdaughter and her DH and baby live there)...so I totally see what you are saying. The traffic AND drivers are terrible! We go during the week, shop during the day and come home after rush hour.

You DO know this city, Di! Where are you?
dancer

Here in Daytona Beach we have 1/2 million bikers twice a year. I get cut off by bikers every event week. Lots of them drink and drive and they wonder why there are always bikers deaths every event.

We have so many new NASCAR race events I can't count them anymore. The fans get crazy on the roads.

And we have the snowbirds every winter who make their own rules on the roads.

I think it's everywhere.

You should see the mess we have in town right now with the OJ trial. They've closed off two entire streets to accomodate the news media vans and cars. And I pity anyone needing to get to the courthouse, geesh!!! Our traffic here is a nightmre at best, then this crap...Thats why I steer clear of the strip at all costs, its one fender bender after another with all the new 'fools' in town. They are mostly driving rental cars so they couldn't care less.