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Thankful for having returned body and car intact, I have to ask: is it just me? Despite signaling, despite back-looking friendly facial pleading, no one ever let us into traffic. Sheesh! Utah driving is a nightmare. I have hated for the past 25 years. So much mountainous beauty, but road cr*p, not so pretty. Welcome home. So glad you are safe. Every prophet has a theme or two they like to focus on. I think one of Hinckley’s themes was to obey traffic laws and be courteous and careful in driving. He may have mentioned it at least once during every general conference weekend. 
It’s not just you, I very much dislike driving in Utah. The driving is painful to endure. I think people are trying to be nice and courteous drivers…but it ends up just being unpredictable driving…which I think is unsafe…I can never tell if I’m supposed to merge or not??? Of course, I’m from the east coast…so…no one was kind and courteous…but at least they were consistent so I knew I had to cut people off. Utah is unpredictable and frustrating. Heber13 wrote:The driving is painful to endure. I think people are trying to be nice and courteous drivers…but it ends up just being unpredictable driving…which I think is unsafe…I can never tell if I’m supposed to merge or not??? Of course, I’m from the east coast…so…no one was kind and courteous…but at least they were consistent so I knew I had to cut people off. Utah is unpredictable and frustrating.
The middle way is a difficult path.
I haven’t driven in Utah in over a decade so I can’t say, but traffic in DC…
[img]http://i.imgur.com/UvfzxYm.gif [/img] nice, nibbler. I thought for sure you were going to include the clip where the guy changes lanes…and then his lane stops. Then he looks over at the old man with a walker on the sidewalk passing him and going faster then him in traffic.
DC is predictable. Traffic always sucks on the 495 beltway. Then people look up at the temple to see how beautiful…..and smack the car that stopped in front of it. I think they told those mormons at one point to turn the lights down to not distract drivers so much. Or is that mormon folklore?
The roads have been widened in lots of places, so that is nice – but the driving . . . not so much. Speed limit? We don’t need no stinking speed limit!
Okay, I feel understood. Thank you. And when this drifts to the bottom I’ll probably delete this because I feel guilty singling out one state and sort of generalizing. OTOH, you know it’s bad when all young drivers in the car agree with Mom. This week we have been in SLC. It had been a long time since we had been out here and I had forgotten about the driving. There is too frequently someone in the far right lane going 45 on the freeway. Every exit seems to have someone from the far left lane cutting across all lanes of traffic at the last possible moment to exit. There can be very little traffic but someone will be right in my blind spot, preventing me from changing lanes. They will hang in that spot for miles.
I am wondering if there are just so many visitors, unfamiliar with the area, combined with a mix of urban and rural drivers to make this chaos. I don’t have any insight into the reasons, but the driving experience was not great.
I have not found it to be terrible, but I grew up on a big city and I am used to a bit of rumble and tumble. I will so I-15 has some odd intersections. I understand how they work and can allow more traffic flow, but they can be confusing. I was sitting at one yesterday and there must have been 15 signs for me to look at and figure out which “wrong way” and “don’t enter” signs applied to me. I can handle it, but I am sure it overwhelms some. Especially in my older age I consider myself a very polite driver. One of my hot buttons still is someone driving slow in the fast lane.
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Sounds like most of those problems would be solved if people were more competitive out there. Where I live it’s more like NASCAR, amateur hour. If you go 45 in any lane on the highway you’re going to end up having a very bad day. I’ve lived in places where it was a free-for-all. It was like demolition derby, amateur hour. If there’s room for a car somewhere you go there. Traffic laws are nice.
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