Friday Five

By: Mr. Wilson on June 16, 2006
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I'm going to cheat and do this Friday Five on a non-Lincoln topic. I give you five annoying things about driving in Boston:
  1. Missing lane markings. Is it one lane? Two? Three? How's a guy from out of town supposed to know?
  2. Disappearing lanes. The road used to have two lanes, but now it just has one. Quick, somebody tell that truck driving next to me that I was here first!
  3. Slow drivers. Boston is the only big city I've ever driven in in which drivers keep their speed 10-20 mph under the speed limit on the freeway.
  4. Non-linear roads. It is taking this Midwestern boy a long time to understand why these East Coasters don't build their roads in a grid.
  5. Driving on the shoulder. It's illegal to drive on the shoulder in Massachusetts, except when it's legal. Trying to exit while battling through a line of cars that aren't even on the road is a nice challenge.
On the flip side, there are a few nice things about driving out here. Drivers not only signal their turns and lane changes, they signal them way in advance. It takes some getting used to, but boy, it sure does make life easier. Also, they like roundabouts and non-signaled intersections, even at high-traffic intersections. It feels a little "primitive" at first, but those intersections are far more efficient than some of the high-traffic signaled intersections. A lot of the techniques would unfortunately never work in Lincoln, at least not until Lincoln drivers take some driving lessons.

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