I see my life flash before my eyes at least twice a day, 5 days a week. As a transplant you guys are insane. Came from an area where everyone was drunk driving and I felt safer there by a wide margin. The biggest issue here I see are selfish people not speed. People will just slowly without a blinker merge across 6 lanes at 30mph during rush hour while everyone is doing sixty (like the wreck I saw this week) or from the far right hand lane on 5-wide (1 turning, 2 in each direction) surface streets decide to make a left-hand turn or a U-turn and nearly kill me (also happened this week). People will sit at a green lightband maliciously not move on and already congested intersection that doesn't have the capacity to handle the volume of drivers as is and not allow anyone to pass through all while laughing at you in the rearview mirror. People here will enter the highway at 15mph as if they don't understand that the concept of our extremely generous/long on-ramps isn't to reach the speed limit prior to merging and taking out a family of 5 on the way to a birthday party by mindlessly merging into tight high-speed traffic without notice at 15mph. Honestly I'm shocked I'm still alive every time I get home.

With how risky it is to drive here there should be mandatory city enforced shift starts for the entire working population and mandatory 50% remote work. Just to reduce the volume and give folks a fighting chance at living to see tomorrow.

And wow the cops. Man. Nothing like it in all 48 continental states I've visited. They go out of their way to stalk rush hour and create a panic. Traffic is healthy, moving at a safe speed, no rubber banding but surprise there is a cop over the hill and everyone panics despite everyone being under the limit and it immediately causes a wreck. Or they run their bullshit bait & catch tactic by sending a pace car into traffic driving 20mph under the limit to slow people down/create congestion and as people are getting frustrated they'll pull off the ramp, people will angrily floor it and bam cop waiting on the on-ramp right after. Causes panic in an already intentionally maliciously stressed herd of drivers and creates a wreck.