New city claims most 'road rage' drivers

[Rodger Tellefson]

Reuters - Miami drivers are no longer the angriest and most aggressive, a new survey suggests.



New York drivers named most aggressive, angry in U.S.

By Patricia Reaney



NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) New York has overtaken Miami to be voted the U.S. city with the angriest and most aggressive drivers, according to a survey on road rage released on Tuesday.



Miami topped the annual poll for the last four years but voters in 25 major metropolitan areas gave New Yorkers the prize for angriest, most aggressive drivers who tailgate, speed, honk their horns, overreact and lose their tempers.



The response of New Yorkers to bad drivers also helped push the city into the top slot for road rage.



"New Yorkers were most likely to wave their fists or arms. They were most likely to lay on the horn and they were most likely to make some sort of obscene gesture," said Michael Bush, of the marketing and consulting company Affinion Group, which commissioned the survey.



Dallas/Fort Worth came in second as the worst road rage city followed by Detroit, Atlanta and Minneapolis/St. Paul. Miami ranked a distant seventh.



Baltimore, Sacramento and Pittsburgh rounded out the top five cities with the most pleasant drivers.



Portland and Cleveland were voted to have the most courteous, considerate drivers.



"The real surprise to me is that there is no geographic way to break down road rage," Bush told Reuters. "It is very much on a city-by-city basis, as opposed to geographic area."

 

[Thomas Rogers]

People in NYC are rude, inconsiderate, self-centered and in a big yank...



who knew?

 

[Steve McKellop]

The worst part is that some of those angry New Yorkers come south! I encountered one last week, 10 miles under the PSL impeding traffic.( I know, that's strange) When I went to pass his rusted out POS Escort he sped up.:angry: I drop back in and he slows down again. :angry: I'm sure all the fool could see was the massive chrome grille of my E250. Yet as he turned off he almost stopped and then crept into the street.:angry: I blew my horn to welcome him to NC and he returned the favor by showing me he thought I was number one!:lol: He could have encountered someone less friendly than me and "got Bubba-ized" !!:lol::lol:

 

[gary s]

that's right.



we do our best to drive our vehicles with big bags of anger :angry:

don't drive in the left lane doing 55, or you will be "tailed" , passed real close and then cutoff. all with no signal use.



we also love doing this out of state to show everyone how to drive :lol:



btw, steve there is no such thing as a pos escort

 

[A K]

Eh, being Mets fans will do it.

 

[gary s]

adam,



and a nj nets fan

 

[Dre L]

NY'ers have a right to have road rage. There's nothing but lousy drivers from other states driving in NY these days because everyone thinks "if I can make it there". Do they even have driver's manuals or testing in other states? Do they even have rules or lines painted on their dirt roads? Do they even have cars? The cab drivers are better drivers than these goofballs. :lol:



As for getting bubba-tized, never happens to a NY'er. If there is a conflict with bubba, we just point behind them, shout "LOOK" then run. :lol:

The worst part is that some of those angry New Yorkers come south! I encountered one last week, 10 miles under the PSL impeding traffic.(

Come on now, I drive down south all the time, is it worse for him to drive 10 under the PSL or for you to drive 30 over? The left lane and the PSL is a joke down there, amazingly since the tickets aren't.

When I went to pass his rusted out POS Escort he sped up. I drop back in and he slows down again. I'm sure all the fool could see was the massive chrome grille of my E250.

You couldn't overtake a rusty escort with an E250? What's wrong with your van?

 

[Steve McKellop]

Hey, I didn't write the article on NY drivers I only commented on my recent experience. I personally don't group all northern drivers into any particular category.

NY'ers have a right to have road rage. There's nothing but lousy drivers from other states driving in NY these days because everyone thinks "if I can make it there". Do they even have driver's manuals or testing in other states? Do they even have rules or lines painted on their dirt roads? Do they even have cars? The cab drivers are better drivers than these goofballs.

The article didn't say drivers from other states, driving in NY.........

As for getting bubba-tized, never happens to a NY'er. If there is a conflict with bubba, we just point behind them, shout "LOOK" then run.

I'm glad you included the :lol: at the end of that comment. It would be sad if you were serious!

Come on now, I drive down south all the time

Maybe stay up "there" and save yourself the grief?????

Come on now, I drive down south all the time, is it worse for him to drive 10 under the PSL or for you to drive 30 over? The left lane and the PSL is a joke down there, amazingly since the tickets aren't.

I drive for a living now, no 30 or even 20 overs for me. Actually we leave the left lanes open for the northerners to use to get to Florida without being delayed!:lol::lol:

BTW, at 54 years old I've never had a ticket or an accident. I now work 3 days a week and drive 1000 miles in those 24-27 hour weeks.

You couldn't overtake a rusty escort with an E250? What's wrong with your van?

In town, with other traffic and traffic signals, a 45 MPH PSL and pro-active enforcement it really wasn't the thing to do.(not outside of NY anyway). Believe me, there's nothing wrong with my van. I have enough bugs on my bumper and grille without adding a NY'er, his lady friend and their mangy poodle in a POS rusted out Escort.:banana:



.......and aren't you from Joy-zeeeeeeee?

 

[Dre L]

The article didn't say drivers from other states, driving in NY.........

That's because only NY'ers are savvy to the fact that hardly anyone living and driving in NY nowadays actually originated from NY.



There's actually NY natives which (in some odd way) are decent, hard working folks and you get along with them fine, even if they're a little coarse. Then there's the one's you see on cops which I'd drop given the chance.



Just like your decent southerners which I get along with great. Then there's the one's you see on cops which I'll be damned if they don't get an academy award for best stereotypical performance of a, well, you know.



I think over time I've chalked it up to "a certain class of people". Not racial, not geographical, not economic, not by age, not religious or anything else. Just "a certain class of people". They all behave exactly the same way in some sense, and the rest of us tend to suffer because of them.



Is it because they're from another state? No. It's because they come here thinking life is grand in the big city and the streets are paved with gold. Reality is life is about 2-50 grand a month and the streets are paved with regret.



It's a nice place to visit, but all of NY is not bars, nightclubs, broadway and times square, if that's your thing. It is a very frustrated city, which probably doesn't help with the chart we just topped. Hell, we have pedestrian rage, bicycle rage, and just plain rage.



Then there's Jersey where people STOP in the middle lane of a highway to make a right turn into their exit.

.......and aren't you from Joy-zeeeeeeee?

Hell no, I'm from NY. I'm just making my way down south because I got tired of all the fu**ing NY'ers.



Funny thing is 50% of the "southerners" I meet on the way down are originally from up north, and about 30% who are native southerners are trying to move up north :blink: Frankly, life up north has gotten ridiculous, but most city life is a joke now.

Actually we leave the left lanes open for the northerners to use to get to Florida without being delayed!

Well thank God for the little things. For me though, once I get into Maryland, I'm not in a rush any more.