Re:Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose great...
by swozey on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @02:34PM
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I previously lived and worked in Uptown in Dallas TX. I had a 1 mile walk to work which I thought would be awesome (barring summer).
What it actually was was a game of leap frog.
At 5pm thousands of middle aged men in button ups driving GMC Suburbans, Tahoes and F250s would be released into up/downtown with the sole goal of getting onto the highway as fast as possible so they could get to their suburb 30 minutes away.
Pedestrians were just interruptions. Right on red? GUN IT! Red light? HA! Scooter crossing the road? Run it over!
I wound up almost never walking to work those few years because of how ridiculously mad max walking through Uptown at 5pm was. I saw probably 10+ people on scooters get hit by cars.
What it actually was was a game of leap frog.
At 5pm thousands of middle aged men in button ups driving GMC Suburbans, Tahoes and F250s would be released into up/downtown with the sole goal of getting onto the highway as fast as possible so they could get to their suburb 30 minutes away.
Pedestrians were just interruptions. Right on red? GUN IT! Red light? HA! Scooter crossing the road? Run it over!
I wound up almost never walking to work those few years because of how ridiculously mad max walking through Uptown at 5pm was. I saw probably 10+ people on scooters get hit by cars.