The Rant/Rave Topic

[Grim]

Bitch.

Wow dude, best rant of the year so far.

They all deserve to get assfisted.

I have to side with cars most of the time. It's not that I'm being callous to those who have motorcycles, but it's the fact that everyone's said already: that they really create their own accidents sometimes. Cutting and switching lanes, staying in your blind spots when they should be ahead or behind you, etc etc.

What really pisses me off are the jeepneys and FXs that stop abruptly at odd angles on the road. You're really left with no other choice but to wait until they've gotten their passenger and start off again, since they essentially block all traffic behind them. It gets really bad when you're travelling at a busy thoroughfare with only TWO LANES (lol Philippines), and the jeep in front of you veers suddenly to the right to stop, but he doesn't fully clear himself from your lane so you can't pass, and neither can the cars on the lane beside you. Sons of bitches indeed.

Also, I get really cheesed off when a jeep or FX or taxi or even a car overtakes me when I got on the goddamned lane first, then they try to stop in front of me to get passengers or to let them off. Goddamnit. Minsan lang talaga feel kong mangbangga ng jeep kasi hinihingi talaga nila, pero alam kong mas malaking sakit ng ulo pa yun.

Raffy and Jin know one of my other pet peeves: traffic enforcers where they aren't really needed. Most of the time, when left to themselves, drivers will eventually give way to one another on a busy intersection (o kaya gumagamit nalang sila ng diskarte). Some traffic jams really begin when a traffic enforcer comes to the scene and proceeds to stop traffic flow from one direction so that cars from the other directions can pass. That's literally creating a blockage on our streets, akin to having a stroke that paralyzes you because a clot blocked your blood flow. Where there was once slow, but moving, traffic there is now only traffic. Haven't our cops ever heard of chaos theory? Even the simple notion of traffic ahead is enough to create a placebo effect for most drivers that they have to start slowing down. And when they do that, the cars behind them slow down even more. What you need to keep cars flowing is to provide them with an idea of flowing traffic (it might be slow, but it's moving still). Also, the stop and go signals these people do is already done automatically, it's called a stoplight. Traffic ENFORCERS indeed.

Finally, even though I'm part of the great big mass, I hate rush hour. Fortunately for me I don't drive a car when going to work, commuting is so much easier.

Philippine motoring: it's a bitch.

EDIT: Oh, happy birthday, Rick and Blake!