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halicat unregistered Posts: 1370 |
posted 02-05-2005 07:00 AM
What is the worst city you have ever driven in ? What is the best city you have ever driven it ? base your answer on quality of drivers on the road and ease of finding your way around. 1) worst.... Montreal, Quebec... hands down the most dangerous, scary place i've ever tried to drive through... all the cars are going twice the speed of sound, bumper to bumper !! all the cars have dents... they have no-fault government insurance. all the signs are in french and every driver is smoking and givin you the finger.... now when i drive cross canada.... i plan to go through montreal at around 3 am to miss the total insanity. 2) best.... Calgary, Alberta....people are nice , polite and everyone seems to be smiling....all the roads are straight, all the streets are numbered, avenues run east to west, streets run north to south.. you can take any adress and without ever being there before and find your destination.. |
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tangled up in BLUE Prowler Junkie Posts: 11086 |
posted 02-05-2005 07:04 AM
...Boston is probably the worst US city I have encountered..... ...for a big city, DC was surprisingly easy...I don't have much trouble anywhere though, I am a very patient driver..... ps...forgot about London.....by far the worst anywhere.... This message has been edited by tangled up in BLUE on 02-05-2005 at 07:16 AM |
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toys Prowler Junkie Posts: 3818 |
posted 02-05-2005 07:13 AM
New York City By far the worst, Boston a close second. Toys |
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Ray unregistered Posts: 3818 |
posted 02-05-2005 08:38 AM
LA during rush hour (which from what we saw goes from maybe 6am until 9:30pm) would be one of the worst, and I do recall Boston being very 'tight' due to the street widths. Best, mmmm anywhere in Texas or maybe Montana ... lots of open roads! |
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Bcoffman Gray Ghost Prowler Junkie Posts: 2418 |
posted 02-05-2005 08:45 AM
None of the above choices are nearly as bad as "the strip" in Arrow Rock, Mo. Every now and then, someone rides a horse down to the Old Tavern. Dodging all those droppings is murder. LOL |
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Marty Usher Prowler Junkie Posts: 13833 |
posted 02-05-2005 08:50 AM
Worst city - Boston Most frustrating city to get through - Chicago Worst roads (potholes) - Detroit Worst scenery - any city in the Great Plaines Best city - Louisville-it means I'm home Any beach city - it means I'm on vacation Best scenery - Denver - the mountains just west of the city are spectacular |
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ALLEY CAT Prowler Junkie Posts: 36093 |
posted 02-05-2005 08:53 AM
I haven't been there yet, but Atlanta usually gets the vote for worst city to drive in. Houston had good roads, but the worst on-ramps onto the freeway system I've ever seen - too short of distance to enter the merging area = nearly impossible to be up to speed, causing everyone to hit the brakes. Sioux City, Iowa - worst design of city streets. Nothing goes east-west, north-south,,,the city is laid out in a diamond pattern of angles. Detroit, Mi - worst pot hole city. No wonder they don't sell many imports there,,,,the car would disappear into the pot holes!!! I could see what inspired SUV's by driving through there. California - Arizona, nicest, smooth roads for the most part due to good weather = worst drivers! Speed is not an option, its your survival to travel. If you enjoy driving 90mph on your way to work, Az is the place to risk your life,,,its common place. The influx of elderly, winter snow birds from the northern states, create many problems on the surface streets - drive too cautious with the wrong turn signal left on - have no idea where they are going. |
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meancat Prowler Junkie Posts: 3635 |
posted 02-05-2005 10:27 AM
I not sure about the worst city,But I can tell you the best city to drive in is Moddersville clean and friendly towns people no pot holes and here the trains stop for cars. ------------------ |
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dbudner Prowler Junkie Posts: 1391 |
posted 02-05-2005 11:11 AM
Atlanta does stink and I have to say Montreal is right up there too. I think Newark, NJ during rush hour on the 1-9 may take the cake though. |
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DR PROWLER Prowler Junkie Posts: 4079 |
posted 02-05-2005 03:43 PM
I got caught once in London's roundabout in a rental right hand drive....I mean talk about feeling like Chevy Chase in European Vacation! I agree with Helicat....Montreal is one of the worst with all the one way streets! As long as I'm not caught in rush hour traffic...I really don't care what city it is! |
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CJ Prowler Junkie Posts: 18860 |
posted 02-05-2005 11:13 PM
LA is definitely the worst city I've driven in. SoCal loaned me their Prowler for a weekend a couple of years ago and I'd never driven there, let along the freeways! Scared the livin' daylights out of me! Never again!  Lived in Colorado for many years.......never had any problems there. |
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Lone Ranger Prowler Junkie Posts: 2120 |
posted 02-06-2005 12:30 AM
For me the worse has to be L.A. The bumper to bumper traffic just seems to go forever. Best Kansas City. Decent roads and not many potholes. |
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Daryl Prowler Junkie Posts: 172 |
posted 02-06-2005 01:58 PM
I'd have to say that Las Vegas was one of the easiest cities to drive in. You have to be careful with all of the tourists gawking (inluding myself) but it's so flat out there that it's nearly impossible to get lost. You can practicall see the building you're looking for when you're miles away. Just head in that direction and you get there eventually! DC is easy to navigate but I felt that I had to be very aggressive in order to keep moving.
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Bob Miller Prowler Junkie Posts: 4576 |
posted 02-06-2005 10:28 PM
The worst two are Hanoi, Viet Nam (I didn't get to actually drive, they drove us around) and Kathmandu, Nepal. Both cities are full of brain-dead guys riding mopeds who think they own the road. Washington, DC is pretty easy if you understand how the city is laid out. |
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whealy Prowler Junkie Posts: 1360 |
posted 02-06-2005 11:19 PM
I’m sorry. I know we have some very active members that live there but … I haven’t driven in LA or New York. But I have driven to the East Coast, Florida, Texas, and Colorado from Indiana. I’ve driven in San Francisco and Seattle. Hands down my worst driving experience was Houston. I never dreamed that downtown on a weekday at 10:00 am would be bumper to bumper at least 4 four lanes wide. I can’t image what rush hour would have been like. It’s the first time in my life that I used a toll road by choice. And even that had overpasses six stores high with nothing underneath them. Only the hospitality of Mike and Judy would allow me to brave those streets again … |
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ed monahan Prowler Junkie Posts: 33595 |
posted 02-07-2005 12:17 AM
I thought Dallas was really bad. I was on the motorcycle and the idiots would cut in front of you and then slam on the brakes to make a right turn. You then had to accelerate as quickly as possible to avoid being run over, only to have another idiot cut you off. Sandy was at a convention at the Airport so I had several days of sightseeing. The circle freeway was evidently extended out toward the airport. I was in one of the left lanes going straight. The road was banked for the old curve so I almost went airborne at about 70 MPH. I was not expecting that on an expressway. |
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halicat unregistered Posts: 33595 |
posted 02-07-2005 07:23 AM
I have to agree with Ed on the dallas issue... I was there for 5 days , rented a car at the airport.... drove it to the Hotel and left it in the parking lot the whole time...Just the taxi ride from the airport to the car rental office scared the bejesus out of us.... this guy that looked just like Yassar Arafat ( table cloth head wrap and all) was the cabbie and nearly crashed us in the first 50 ft of our ride.......but the deciding factor is parking the car is that we realized that probably half of the people on the road had guns on the front seats...  |
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Dale Beaman Prowler Junkie Posts: 2699 |
posted 02-07-2005 11:36 AM
Just got back from LA - it's the worst on my list! You spend a long time getting nowhere. Ask for directions - waste of time. No one knows where anything is or how to get anywhere!! |
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YellowFever unregistered Posts: 2699 |
posted 02-07-2005 12:44 PM
quote: Depending on when you were there, probably due to construction of the toy train (that is a complete disaster) that they wanted done in time for the superbowl when it was there. Or perhaps an accident (with the toy train). Other then that, traffic is fairly modest for the 4th largest city in the USA |
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