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I know why people are bad drivers in Boston.
I know the secret.
I know.
There is no grid system here to the roads. California is a good example of places that have the roads built in a grid. When it's done that way, you know which was north and south are. Here, there is no way of knowing sometimes. Apparently, all the roads in the congested areas were once footpaths a long, long time ago. They kept those paths and enhanced them to accommodate vehicles.
Intersections many of the times are unmarked. There are no street signs to reassure you that you're still on the street you thought you were on. Sometimes streets change names but there are no signs to tell you that they changed. Lots of times a street will go from a two way street and then all of a sudden you hit a 'Do Not Enter' sign because the rest of the street is one-way...coming at you now one-way.
Lots of residents take the T (the subway). So that's how they get to everywhere. So when they jump into a car for a trek somewhere where the T doesn't go to, they're out of practice and the absent road signs don't help.
California (for the most part) is really good about painting lanes on their streets. Massachusetts is not. Sometimes there will be a road w/o lanes painted on them. This means that there are as many lanes as you want. Sometimes 2 lanes, sometimes 3 or even 4. It all depends on how many cars you can fit.
Boston also has a different idea about personal driving space. There isn't any. Someone will be on your ass always. And the horn is used always.
I get some slack because our truck still has California plates on it, people just think I'm not in the groove because I'm new.
Also another crazy thing is that if you're going to make a left at an intersection, without the aid of a left arrow, you go left immediately when the light turns green. Don't go after on a yellow (after all the cars go), because everyone will honk at you.
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