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36 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2024.08.04)”
I’ve lived through lakers ascendancy and Celtics ascendancy with homes in LA and Boston at the time and I can say with complete confidence that the answer to the age old is that Boston drivers are the worst in the world. LA drivers are mostly ignorant of how to drive while vapid and generally not mean people, but Boston drivers are willfully ignorant of how to drive and prohibitively, across all spectrums, mean about it. It translates to their sports teams. They’re a little concerned about chemistry this year because it’s hard to look in the pond and not love what you see but gosh dang it are they the most insufferable sports base in the game.
Yeah. Totally.
Re drivers: I submit the awful drivers of Texas for your ridicule (with accident stats to back them up).
Re sport: just a gorgeous first set of tennis between Alcaraz and Djokovic (set to music by New Order and Depeche Mode for some reason).
Julius Randle “one of those Knickerblogger motherfuckers must have done this mural”
https://x.com/knicksmuse/status/1819578842505163030?s=46&t=0wqff4cNt-sCGcDs-uMExw
Djokovic doesn’t have Olympic gold yet. Last chance. What a time for tennis.
Re- Boston Drivers. Based on my experience, they are outright hostile if you have NY plates. The rotaries are worse than rugby scrums.
Edit- I have never played rugby.
one nice thing about driving out here in southern california – folks are getting where they got to go – quickly…
when I was driving up around san jose folks rarely drove faster than 70 mph…
down here, folks rarely drive slower than 70 mph…
Novak!
I played rugby…lasted a whole 4 games before getting injured (tore one of the heads of my deltoid muscle)…
that was on the 4th game, pretty sure I got hurt in each of the first three games too…
by far the best after game celebrations/parties ever though…
Spent a fair amount of time driving in Boston of late, and I don’t think they’re anywhere near the worst, but they are some of the most aggressive. The sudden pull-out lane-change and zoom past with no warning move is a classic. I would also argue that Boston roads are some of the worst — not wide enough off the main thoroughfares, and with sudden car-swallowing potholes on the main ones. Not to mention the random disappearing lanes in long, dark tunnels. It’s like the transportation department loves horror movies.
I hate the left coast refusal to honk. Spent a lot of time in the Bronx, and in Asia, where the car horn is a communication device (“Hi!” “I’m here!” “How’s the weather!”). It’s like a turn signal (which is verboten for some reason in Seattle). I presume in LA it’s because of the fear that someone is going to shoot you in response, while in Seattle it’s just rude and people would rather die. But I’d rather someone tap their horn then let me merge into their fender.
Nothing comes close to the on-ramps to the 110 in LA. It’s like platform diving into a kiddie pool.
speaking of so cal, it’s supposed to be one hundred and eight degrees outside today…
is there anyone on KB (not living with pepper in arizona) that can beat a 108 temp today?
I suspect our Italian contingent will have something to say…about your mere quibbles.
Baltimore drivers are terrible. So, so many run red lights and people double-parked next to an open parking space. On the flip side. no one drives around someone make a left at an intersection even though there’s room.
I was pressed into driving from Rome to Naples and I thought the traffic was unruly but driving around NYC was a decent primer for it.
Easily the most insane driving exhibition of my life though was a cab I took in Naples. Once the driver found out we were trying to make a ferry, he was cutting off entire columns of traffic at red lights, running red lights, high speed in high congestion. Topping it all off was the mile or so we spent driving on the tracks of their light rail system, which was 100% not designed for use by cars.
It’s hard to argue with the results though, we got to the boat 15 minutes early.
Haha, You guys should experience driving in Israel, or Palestine. Once I had to take 6 people in a car for 4, and a 7th was sitting on the hood with his legs dangling out in front of the bumper. Naturally I drove very slowly, so he turns around and yells at me, mocking my manhood, “speed up, man, speed up!” And that’s like, everyone, every driver or passenger around.
NYC driving is like a libertarian’s vision of paradise: everyone is an instrumentally rational utility maximizer who does what’s most beneficial for them, damn the laws. It creates a unity of expectation that I haven’t seen much elsewhere–I just know that people are going to merge without using their blinker, that pedestrians are going to walk if they’re likely to live, etc. Touristy areas are excepted here, obviously.
Chicago is a pretty terrible place to drive with unskilled but aggressive drivers and weird/passive midwestern pedestrian norms (crosswalks are not recognized by drivers and pedestrians are extraordinarily timid–I’ve nearly gotten hit several times in the crosswalk and got an earful from people who were about to run me over because they don’t want to stop!)
But the place with the worst driving has got to be Atlanta, GA. It is an urban planning nightmare with traffic approximately as bad as the three largest US cities; there’s little public transit, so everyone’s on the road; and 50% of the drivers are literally suicidal while the other 50% drive like retirees, so it’s basically impossible to know what anyone is going to do at any moment. It is a miserable, miserable experience.
Outside the US, I’ve only driven in Santiago and Valparaiso, Chile. Both places were definitely more loosey-goosey about driving rules than most of the US, but it was still way better than Atlanta.
You guys are making me feel better, i thought portuguese drivers were the worst! 😀
I submit Portland, Oregon drivers for worst in the country. They are super passive, but also unpredictable. On top of that they are weirdly passive aggressive and despite being slow and unaggressive don’t want to let other people get around them or go faster. Sort of a “if I have to wait in traffic so do you” type of attitude.
Was just driving in Naples (for my first time) and was impressed by the 2-4 inch clearance maintained between vehicles and scooters and also by each driver’s (random?) strategy of “just point the car where you already want to be.” No rules. It all seems to work bc the speeds are generally slow, and it reminded me of Mumbai and Delhi, where I have family and have driven often.
I totally agree that NYC is as described by Knicksiness. I actually love driving in the city. Smart people just figuring it out.
And, with all deference to the hellscapes of LA, Boston, Baltimore, and Atlanta, I would suggest that Texas drivers have an exceptional blend of overconfidence and incompetence which I’ve never seen anywhere else.
Austin highways in particular present the theater of our national political struggle every day as jacked up pickups cheerfully bear down on wheezing Priuses still sporting their scuffed Beto stickers. On/off ramps seem purposefully designed with half the necessary distance to enter/exit, so every quarter mile there are 4/5 lanes of cars all trying to weave through one another — without slowing down or giving quarter.
There is a fatal accident basically every day and billboards count (advertise?) the running annual death toll, trying to dissuade us all from driving this way, but likely inspiring pride in our beloved Yahoos who are more than pleased to boast that Texas is biggest and best in auto fatalities … too.
Since half the drivers are also waving pistols as they go, it’s Fun Times or End of Times depending on your POV 😉
The Florida I95 is special. Don’t sleep on a state where silver alerts are on the minute.
These stories are great. Atlanta made me snort. darule’s description made me remember that I personally know the answer to “How many people can fit in (or on) an (open) jeep?”
The answer is 24, if the guns are pointing up and the goats are lying down!
one of the weirder moments i had while driving was going from tampa to st. pete one day…i stopped at a light, looked around, everyone on the street, and in their cars, and at the stores along the street had white hair and was old…i was youngish at the time…it was startingly…
pretty sure i was relatively sober during that time in life…
Mountains in Corsica: trucks wider than 1 lane careening around blind hairpin turns on super narrow roads with 1000 ft dropoffs right next to the road. No honking to let you know they’re coming. Nothing. Just faith that you’ll be able to stop and back up as quickly as needed to avoid being hit or plummetng to your death. It happened several times. Obviously it’s assumed that you know to expect this and are prepared.
Mountain roads between villages in Indonesia: Lane lines, lights, signs are all purely decorative ornamentation. Whole families including little kids clinging in a loose pile on mopeds and small motorcycles weaving wildly in and out of traffic. No helmets. No fear. No instinct for self preservation. Competing with mad cabbies, speeding oversized land rovers, openly belligerent buses and trucks. All daring each other to make physical contact. No quarter is asked for or given. Contrast with the extreme graciousness in most other interpersonal interactions couldn’t be more stark.
I haven’t driven anywhere in North America, elsewhere in Europe, or in East Africa that touches either of those places in their firm commitment to clearly lethal traffic norms.
116 here in Phx today…hot AF….
I make it a point to drive in any country I visit…both freeway and intercity…I view it as sport…
On above, agree..NYC has a flow and although agressive…everybody knows their shit…as far as on ramps…living in queens for many moons…I’ll put some of the on ramps in queens up against any in the world for skill challenge…you get very little runway to get in the flow…also, Chicago is fucking crazy…nobody gives a shit if you’re in a crosswalk…they just come at you…but if you find the rhythm..you just need to time it right…
I think Spain (especially down south) and Israel were some of my favorites…especially freeway/highway…you can fly (well..I did get pulled over for speeding but in Israel but pretended to not understand Hebrew and they just wagged the finger at me)…liked driving in Italy and France too…Paris…Rome..sometimes felt like Deathsport 2000…that rocked….
Here in Phx..I think we are top 3 in fatalities nationwide…I see an accident at least once a day…and not the fender bender stuff….like cars totaled…seems to be a combination of stupidity and ignorance of basic driving rules…
one caveat on NYC..the new jack cab drivers think they know what they’re doing but they suck…so they are the wildcards..they can mess things up…
Great thread. The newest twist to NYC driving is the sheer amount of 2 wheel vehicles on the road, including motor and dirt bikes on highways( sounds like the inter-village roads of Indonesia) many of the drivers helmet less. My reflexes being about as good as MitchRobs foul shooting, it’s a miracle that I haven’t killed anyone.
I think LA drivers are actually quite good. We get a lot of practice. There’s no other option to get anywhere.
The 110 freeway from downtown to Pasadena is an insane driving experience for two reasons: as mentioned above, the offramps are insanely short. Also, the turns of the 110 freeway are not banked. There are reasons for this: the 110 is a very old freeway, one of the first in the nation, and people had not yet figured out that you have to make the turns banked, and that the offramps have to be longer than 20 feet. Still, there are relatively few accidents on that stretch of the 110 considering how treacherous it seems.
I’m waiting for Max to weigh in so I can decide on whether I should rent a car or not when I visit Spain this fall…
Stoned out drivers in the Hindu Kush – give me a break. Eastern Europeans – perfectly fine. Mexico – easy peazy. Alaska, Hawaii, Texas, and 46 other states – piece of cake. Have any of you ever driven in Connecticut? I have had exactly 2 accidents in almost 40 years of driving, on multiple continents – both idiots’ license plates had “Connecticut” spelled out. It’s not tailgating in Connecticut until their front bumper is touching your steering wheel. I see a BMW with a Connecticut license plate coming toward me on I-684 – I get the fuck out of the way.
Driving in Morocco is pretty scary. I remember driving past the worst car accident I have ever seen there on a mountain pass. Drivers in Greece are also insane but I don’t know that I fear anything more than people in Strong Island driving drunk.
What a day at the Olympics. Lyles the headliner but the women’s road race was absolute insanity also.
Jazzfunk — yes. Connecticut drivers are the most obnoxious of any state. By a long distance. There are worse drivers, but nobody on the road that I hate more. Thanks for reminding me.
Connecticut cops gave me the only speeding ticket I’ve ever had. I did get pulled over in Idaho but the cop understood that I was mesmerized by the sunset and distracted by how to put it in a film…
ehhh…CT ain’t got nothing on the maserati/porsche/tesla housewives banging around Safeway parking lots in North Scottsdale…not even close…
Suadi desert sports.
https://youtu.be/fLhMVYJNBIk?si=Q6YbGq6Q0xAuXpDc
Suadi? Cool.
Isnt Max italian? I have never driven much outside of Spain, but as a pedestrian I feel safer than in other places in Europe. We poke fun at portuguese drivers for being reckless, but I think there is not a lot of difference, if that gives you a reference. It also depends where in Spain you go, drivers in Valencia are more aggressive and roads are designed to go fast even if it is not allowed. We also have our share of narrow mountain roads and twisty roads to get to coastal cliff beaches, which can be tricky.
Where are you going in Spain?