Wednesday, December 19, 2007

I know there were 3 or 4 accidents on city streets yesterday involving RIPTA buses. Two within minutes of each other at North Main and the bus tunnel and North Main at Steeple. Mostly it seemed like much what happened Thursday night, people decided traffic regulations did not apply to them. Everyone thinks their destination is most important and sit in the box during light cycles, make illegal turns from the wrong lanes and generally just drive like assh*les. Parts of the city were utter gridlock South Main, Benefit, Canal, the Kennedy Plaza area, while others such as Memorial near Textron were like a ghost town, completely free of traffic.

One thing has to happen soon, the city needs to move forward with their plans to redesign Emmett Square (the intersection in front of the Westin and the Journal). That light is simply a nightmare and no one in the state can seem to figure out how one is supposed to drive through it.

Maybe a friendly reminder in the mail to everyone about exactly what red means would help too.