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ripleyajm t1_j6ejrao wrote

From a drivers perspective this is the hardest city to drive in I’ve ever been to, and I lived in DC for a decade and New York briefly.

Bikes and pedestrians don’t pay attention to crosswalks or stop signs, cars park in the middle of lanes for 10+ minutes, Amazon drivers stop traffic constantly, no one in this city understands turn signals. no one has any regard for anyone else’s safety here.

Something has to change not just in the infrastructure, but the mentality of this city. There is no reason this tiny town should have so many pedestrian deaths

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123takeapissonme t1_j6fvtx3 wrote

Also lived in NYC. I didn’t like all the honking 0.00001 seconds when the light turned green, but at least enough people understood the rules of the road.

Richmond is just filled with a bunch of really inconsiderate drivers (and Virginia in general).

Henrico police are more strict and it just seems like police that surround VCU campus are just…not there.

First time I moved to RVA in 2013 I saw someone get hit off their bike so hard [GRAPHIC STATEMENT AHEAD] that their torso was twisted 180 degrees (their butt was facing the same way their face was).

Gruesome and the first time I had ever seen anything like that.

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oddistrange t1_j6ft8k4 wrote

I'm always white-knuckling it whenever I'm driving through VCU's campus, the Fan, or Carytown. So many pedestrians will just dart out into the street between parked cars instead of going to the crosswalk.

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hiddenrealism t1_j6h01e5 wrote

Dropping my fiancee off near w franklin in the morning and at 5 I notice when I have a green the walk signals all signal too walk at the same time.

Maybe I'm missing something but they're telling pedestrians to walk when I have a green so I also have to yield to the crosswalks

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ashdeezttv t1_j6hz70i wrote

As someone who has grown up here maybe this is why I was surprised when I finally drove to DC and didn’t think the traffic was as bad as I’d heard forever. Like it sucked during the rush hours but it didn’t feel much worse than Richmond

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ninjetron t1_j6j2gfv wrote

I've had the opposite experience for the most part. Driving in in NOVA sucks balls in comparison.

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ripleyajm t1_j6j3pnq wrote

Surprisingly nova is not DC, nor is it a city 🤷‍♂️

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Stitchmond t1_j6i5su5 wrote

The times people stop and put their hazards on right next to a parking spot kills me. Just park! This lady in a huge SUV was simultaneously occupying a lane of Cary and blocking Mulberry while she waited for someone to get coffee at Roastology. There was ample parking.

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wiwtft t1_j6ieq10 wrote

This has been my experience as well. I've been here a long time but grew up in DC and have lived in other cities and on both side of thing Richmond is awful. The drivers are bad, the bikers are bad, the pedestrians are bad. None of them seem to pay any attention to anything.

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