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my family was devoured by a feral intersection

Intersectionality? Have you considered people who have traumatic histories with intersections? All those poor souls who met the devil at the crossroads and lost in a fiddle contest, doomed to eternally wander as the unquiet dead?

This one?

This intersection is a persuasive argument Boston drivers are good actually. Maybe even the best in the world.

There was no flaming wreckage at the time the satellite image was taken which seems improbable unless your hypothesis is true

I'm actually looking at it right now and there's clearly a left turn you can take I thought was impossible.

Which one?

I present, as an additional example, for your consideration: the Drum Hill trapezoidy traffic circle on Route 3. A fucking four lane nightmare of Left Only and Exit Only lanes.

That one’s a walk in the park now that they’ve installed traffic lights and, like, lanes.

I like how you can just go around again if you need to.

Boston drivers are good and insane. Drivers in many other metro areas are just insane.

i would strongly contest that boston drivers are good

Boston drivers ARE good. What they aren't is polite, chill, rational, or the slightest bit interested in what the signage says they 'must' do.

It's only irrational to drive that way if no one else is! which isn't to excuse the dangerousness, just hard to say the drivers aren't rational if their behavior can be expected.

I would say that that Boston's drivers, cyclists, pedestrians, and street design itself make up an interdependent system responsible for driving everyone involved mad in a highly specific way.

Fair, but the pedestrians are alright.

Lived there for 8y and while I will agree without reservation that Boston drivers are aggressive and rude, they are also without question *better* drivers than anywhere else I've driven. (Or at least were 10y ago.)

Unfortunately, post-COVID neurologic deficits are making the Boston area feel a lot more like pre-panini NYC/North Jersey, and now NYC/North Jersey driving is like being in a Road Warrior movie.

It doesn't feel safe, but it doesn't feel exactly dangerous (usually).

Yeah, they're not gonna hit you, but if you fuck up you're going to hit them.

Many people are saying

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Having driven in Boston, then succumbed to taxis, I have developed this unpopular opinion: Everyone avoids the typical MA driver because they all own POSes and don't have insurance. PS: I live in the DC area, which *everyone* complains about.

Massachusetts drivers have to have auto insurance in order to register a vehicle.

I think all states do. Still, there are places where the percentage of uninsured drivers is unsafe (I live near one.)

Boston has three referred to as the Circle of Death, this is the one I used to navigate. Getting on from Centre St (by the silverware icon), travelling immediately across four lanes to get on the Pike heading west. While cars whip up the offramp, & around from the north frontage road.

Makes me think about Robert Moses in hell. It’s a dense city full of 6+ lane urban highways and expressways and he has to navigate them on foot. He gets horribly maimed by a car and/or poisoned to incapacitation by engine exhaust every day, wakes up fresh the next day and does it all over again.

My office used to be *at* this intersection. Getting to Centre St at rush hour from the Pike eastbound was like the worst game of Dragon’s Lair you’ve ever played.

My brother did business with a firm based in the Midwest & the reps that visited took home Tales of The Circle of Death, so the fame of the fun spread. At least in Boston, the pro drivers know which lane to be in when. And respect other pros.

I used to commute through there on a bike. It *sucked*. But motorists give you a really wide berth because they assume you're insane (and I wouldn't rule it out).

I cannot imagine that. My brother used to live a block away, but I wasn't usually trying to leave his place during rush hour.

Before we moved in together, my now-wife lived in Newton Highlands and I lived in Belmont, and I got pretty good at driving from Galen Street to Centre Street and then back again. It could get fairly exciting at times.

We lived on Little Pond Road, before the Mass Pike! I used to visit my parents after they moved to the retirement community. 128 around Burlington was plenty exciting, I didn't miss downtown & Back Bay.

I remember the good olde days when Braintree Five Corners just had the flashing light in the middle, which is Masshole for "Go with God."

Good times

Ah yes, the Newton Supercollider. Every time I had to go through this I had to channel my masshole energy or id be stuck waiting for 20 minutes

Ha ha I live near here and do this all the time. I look at it like combat training.

Saw a bus really fuck this up once.

Ouch

By the time I got there they'd gotten everyone off the bus and the operator was just standing next to the bus yelling at or being yelled at by another MBTA employee

"Get everyone back on the bus and take it down Storrow Drive"

hahahahaha when i pick visiting friends up from the airport and they (inevitably) ask me how i can drive in nyc i'm always like "you've never been to boston, have you?" boston is my never again city. i would rather be bus sick for the 5+ hour ride than have to drive in boston again.

oh shit that one is even worse than Kosciusko Circle and the current configuration of the Fresh Pond double donut (I learned on the previous configuration of Fresh Pond, I’m old)

Oh no they changed the Fresh Pond rotaries?

In the 80s, I’m old

There's a reason why Brits use roundabouts (rotaries) to sometimes insane levels

And just an hour away is the hellish mess of Kelly Square!

Traffic engineering is a fake profession

How you know I’ve lived here too long - I’ve dealt with this intersection many times and I’m just like “eh it’s not that bad”.

We've got this where I live; it seems overly elaborate for the total amount of lanes

I used to work around several corners of that one. Such fun. :0

GEICO circle.

what the hell is that

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