r/Traffic

If you commute on SLC freeways, you've probably felt it—those metering lights on the on-ramps aren't helping. They're creating the exact congestion they were supposed to prevent. The problem is real: these lights force cars to queue up on the ramps and surface streets before they even merge, which backs up traffic onto neighborhood roads and slows down drivers already on the highway. It defeats the whole purpose. I started a petition asking the city to remove these ineffective lights and reassess traffic timing across the city—because there's got to be a better way than this. Have you noticed how bad it's gotten? If you've felt stuck because of these ramps, or you think the city should try a different approach, consider signing and sharing. Real traffic solutions start with people saying something doesn't work.

Earlier today I got to a stop sign to turn left at the same time as someone else coming the opposite way was coming to turn right onto the same street. Their right turn had only a yield sign, and we got to the signs at roughly the same time. Who has the right of way in a situation like this? The driver at the yield sign let me go but I was thinking he probably had the right of way

It would seem far more efficient than being at the back of a line of cars, only to see the light turn red by the time the car in front if you has moved an inch.

I don’t like commuting so find ways to amuse myself, like giving hyperbolic nicknames to sections of the roads I travel. I think in L.A there’s part of one freeway called the Orange Crush, and that’s the general idea. Here in Omaha there’s an interchange between highway 680 and I80 where traffic can slow from 70mph to almost zero with little warning. I call it The Chokehold.

I was recently pulled over and given a ticket for unknowingly driving with a suspended license. I was on my way to the DMV because I knew that my registration had expired a few days earlier, but I didn't have the money to get a new sticker before the expiration. The officer who pulled me over told me to elect to go to court. I don't make a habit of going around committing crimes and getting tickets so I've never dealt with a situation like this before and I'm too embarrassed to ask anyone I know for advice. I've been in a really tough spot financially and unfortunately ended up in this situation. Should I elect for a court hearing (and if I should what should I expect? Do I need representation?) or should i pay the ticket?

I’m 20 and just got a speeding ticket in Texas for 95 in a 75 on US-290 between Houston and Austin at night with light traffic. The problem is I literally just completed defensive driving for another ticket like 2 weeks ago, so I’m pretty sure I can’t use that again.
The ticket is through Lee County JP court. Fine looks around $284. I’m mainly worried about insurance because I’m currently on a really cheap family Progressive policy and I don’t want this to destroy the rates for everyone. I’m considering getting a traffic attorney mainly to try to get deferred disposition/deferred adjudication or
possibly delay/reset the case for a while. Is that easy to get??

About a month and a half ago I got a speeding ticket for going 39 km over the posted speed limit. 99 in a 60. 2 weeks after that I was caught on the side road beside it going exactly 40 over 100 in a 60. Due to this being my second ticket the cop impounded my car and suspended my license. I get my license back in a week but I’m worried I’ll have a longer suspension after that. Is there anything I can do to convince the courts to not give me a longer suspension. It’s been a very hard month…

I don't know how I never thought to share this one here before, but here goes:

Last year I took a trip to New York City in late January, and had a very early flight back home to California. So even though I ate on the plane and all, due to the time zone shifts, by the time I got home I was still pretty hungry, and having been awake since 2 AM local time was too tired to put anything together. So I ordered from my favorite pizza place and got in the car to go pick up my order, which is usually only about a 10-minute drive each way. A couple blocks from the pizza place there was some kind of weird obstruction in traffic. I tried to get a look at it but genuinely couldn't tell what was going on. It seemed like either someone was pulled over or kinda beefing it by having their car halfway out in the street while parked by the curb. It seemed like it could've started moving again or not, I genuinely had no idea, all I knew was my lane wasn't moving at all at the moment, and I was hungry and tired, so I had to do something.

Traffic in the next lane is moving pretty slowly, due to people shifting from my blocked-up lane, so I figure I have an opportunity. I look in my driver's side mirror, see a pick-up that's kinda close but moving very slowly, so I flip my signal and turn in. I thought I had the room to move in smoothly without problems, but the guy still had to brake fast and honked at me. And you know what, fair. My bad, misjudged it. But nobody was hurt, no accidents occurred, and within seconds we were both moving along, and I thought that was that.

I get to the pizza place two minutes later and park, and stop to check a message on my phone before getting out of the car. When I do, there's this very angry man outside the front door of the shop who begins yelling at me. I see his truck parked in the same lot now, and I gotta say, I did not know they made pick-up trucks that big. Just the most massive vehicle I've ever seen that still somehow fit in a regular spot in a parking lot. In my travel-addled mind it must've been as big as an actual truck that drags along a trailer. But this dude is going off, screaming his fucking head off about how I cut him off in traffic, and making violent threats. And I'm tired, and I don't know how to react to this, because I'm not scared of him in the moment. I'm 6'5" and this dude is like 5'6" tops, but my brain doesn't really know how to process him being all hyper and going "I'm out here killing motherfuckers left and right, you don't even know!" And again, I DID cut him off, it was my bad. So I try to apologize and then he's heading inside the pizza place and internally I'm like "What are the odds we were going to the same spot? Even with the way he's acting I guess it's only fair I let him get his pizza first, maybe that'll calm him down."

But then when I step inside after him he's yelling at the whole staff. And it takes me a moment to process it all, but he's screaming at them about me, and saying their "delivery boy" cut him off in traffic and blah blah blah. And y'all, the staff all wear normal restaurant clothes with a restaurant-branded shirt, and I'm a man in his 30's wearing a graphic tee, fire engine red suspenders, and a red newsboy hat people constantly say makes me look like Mario with my mustache. And when I finally do process it, my mood changes a bit. 'Cuz it's one thing to yell at me for a fuck-up I made, even if the reaction is insanely disproportionate. But now that I realized he is not an actual customer but FOLLOWED me here, and he's making all these other folks uncomfortable, so now I get mad. And I don't scream or anything, but I raise my voice and tell him very firmly "I don't work here". And the guy turns to me for a second and is stunned by this new information, but then he manages to recover by stammering "W-well you LOOK like the kinda clown who would work here" and starts to raise his voice and is raving again, at this point I couldn't even tell you what about.

I have no clue how this is going to go. I've dealt with aggressive people before but never on this level. This dude is fucking unhinged and part of me is beginning to worry that this is the kind of guy who might have a weapon on him. Luckily, two cops happened to be having lunch in the dining room and came to the front to see what all the commotion was. They asked the staff if they wanted the guy to be there, they said no, they forced him to leave. There was no arrest, I didn't have to give a statement or anything, but once the situation had calmed down I started to get worried in the aftermath. I felt like there was a very good chance that once I had my pizza and stepped outside that guy would be waiting for me again. Thankfully, he was gone, which I could tell from the absence of his insanely large overcompensation-mobile. As I got in my car and started for home, I found myself hoping that nutjob did not have a family to bring all that anger home to.

I got home and enjoyed my pizza, but felt nervous for a few days after, worried about what if I ever came across that guy again. I haven't seen him or his oversized truck since, so I can only hope he was passing through town and doesn't really live here. Whatever the case, that was not the homecoming I was expecting after a vacation.

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Strongsville Ohio. Unmarked double left turns onto a 3 lane road. Probably 2-3 times a week I see drivers from both lanes trying to turn onto the middle lane of Royalton.

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The only guidance is a sign designating "left-turn only" for both lanes and that the rightmost is "I-71". Both outer lanes onto Royalton lead to I-71.

Who has the right to the center lane on Royalton?

I got pulled over for crossing over the median in the Hov lane,then I plead not guilty on the ticket and mailed it in. It got sent back to me and now it’s saying a distracted driving violation instead of Hov? Why?

My friend was caught doing 58mph in an 40mph zone. Does anyone know the consequences for someone with a clean license?