How do you get over the anxiety that you’re going to kill someone driving here?
I just moved here last month. I have lived all over the eastern half of the US, and in much bigger cities than Hartford. I have never seen anything like this.
What in the world is with the motorcyclists, ATV drivers, go-karts (???), electric bikers, etc. that weave in and out of traffic, pull out in front of cars, ride wheelies down busy streets, cross intersections speeding and not looking, riding without lights at night, and just generally being careless? Pedestrians too just dart in front of moving cars in the dark. The parked cars on the sides of the streets make it difficult enough to see small vehicles or people that are about to cross. I’m just trying to wrap my head around it. Are these people not just constantly getting killed? Do they not care about their lives? How can you adapt to driving here with the constant fear that you’re going to at some point run over these people while they zoom in and out of blind spots and don’t follow traffic rules?