Oh man, I could go on and on about the nuisances on the roads of Chico. Here's a few to start the list:
1. When you are merging onto the freeway, the traffic on the freeway is moving at 60-65 MPH. You are a traffic hazard if you try to merge at 35 MPH. Also, stopping at the top of the on ramp and waiting to you have adequate clearance is not an option!
2. Also on the topic on freeway onramps, if you are making a right onto the freeway onramp, your traffic sign says "YIELD", not "MERGE". You are to wait until all the cars that have the right of way have cleared. Do not try to squeeze in!
3. It's common knowledge that traffic lights turn green after a short time being red. When it turns green, that means you can and should proceed. I surely hope that you weren't caught by surprise when it turned green because that was what you were sitting there waiting for.
4. The curb weight of a sedan is about 3000 lbs. Moving at 35 MPH creates a pretty sizable moving projectile. Driving while talking on a cell phone reduces your concentration. So basically with this huge moving projectile, you are willing to take a chance just to chat with your mom, sorority sister, drinking buddy, etc? And now they have talking GPS systems built in to further distract you from concentrating on one of the most important daily tasks? That's quite a risk you're willing to take. Don't take that risk on me or my family!
5. When you see an emergency vehicle responding to a call (lights and sirens), you need to pull to the right. That doesn't mean stop right where you are in the middle of the road, try to outrun the emergency vehicle, pull to the right and creep along slowly, or go ahead and make that turn to get out of the way. It means pull to the right and stop! How would you like it if you delayed that emergency vehice if they were responding to your loved ones?
6. If you are driving too slow, you are as much of a traffic hazard as someone who is driving too fast. Also, you have 3 mirrors on your car for a reason, they're not just decoration.
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So you noticed that people in Chico do not know how to merge on to Hwy 99? That doesn't bode well for the success of all the traffic circles that are being proposed and installed around Chico. Common sense might tell these social engineers designing these roads that where drivers cannot manage to merge on straight shot Hwys, traffic circles will be problematic.
Yeah, I don't know what's the deal with the traffic circles. I'm surprised that there haven't been more accidents on 8th Avenue. Some engineer must have someone on the City Council that they are related to. My resources tell me that there's a proposed traffic circle going on East Avenue when they re-direct it to the North around the fire station. If people cannot merge with passenger vehicles, can you imagine them trying to merge with a fire engine coming out of the station? "Geez, I didn't see that big red fire engine in the traffic circle".
Heck, there could be people stuck inside the circle all day like National Lampoon's European Vacation!
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