I’m not an old person, but I know I’m going to sound like a curmudgeon saying this.
I think it’s just moral decay. I can’t think of any other meaningful reason.
In Phoenix, which I consider the national capitol of bad drivers, in the span of less than 10 years, I’ve noticed a staggering number of people in the metro area who just blatantly run red lights now. Sometimes seconds after they’ve turned.
It’s straight up ridiculous, and now I spend time actually checking both sides of the road before driving away from stoplights in an active intersection.
I wouldn’t have thought to do that before. People just obeyed the law here. Not consistently mind you: no soul drives the 55 speed limit on I-17, but it’s getting measurably worse.
What else do you attribute to that? I guess you could say less traffic enforcement, but I don’t think anything’s changed here in this part of the country.
People suck.
I think it’s just moral decay. I can’t think of any other meaningful reason.
In Phoenix, which I consider the national capitol of bad drivers, in the span of less than 10 years, I’ve noticed a staggering number of people in the metro area who just blatantly run red lights now. Sometimes seconds after they’ve turned.
It’s straight up ridiculous, and now I spend time actually checking both sides of the road before driving away from stoplights in an active intersection.
I wouldn’t have thought to do that before. People just obeyed the law here. Not consistently mind you: no soul drives the 55 speed limit on I-17, but it’s getting measurably worse.
What else do you attribute to that? I guess you could say less traffic enforcement, but I don’t think anything’s changed here in this part of the country.
People suck.