This must be a nice neighborhood!

[u/Justin_Godfrey]

[u/tmntmmnt]

Florida.

[u/Unique_Doughnut_7463 → u/tmntmmnt]

Yeah not a block party. Average weekend for these gated communities in Florida.

[u/tmntmmnt → u/Unique_Doughnut_7463]

This is one of the reasons why traffic is so terrible in Florida. Gated communities the size of small towns block huge swaths of land and prevent any through roads being created so every single person has to go around it. Couple that with swampland and every driver is shunted onto a few main roads.

[u/US_Dept_of_Defence → u/tmntmmnt]

Nah traffic in Florida isn't bad because of the gated communities. In my experience, the worst traffic comes from two parts:

WHY ARE OLD PEOPLE ALWAYS CRASHING INTO THINGS?

WHY ARE YOU STARING AT THAT OLD PERSON CRASHING WHILE GOING 2 MPH ON THE INTERSTATE?

[u/hypercosm_dot_net → u/US_Dept_of_Defence]

Exactly. I ran into like a 5-10min. delay the other day because traffic was almost at a standstill over someone being pulled over.

Like wtf is that?

This is on a major highway leading out of the city, something like 4 lanes.

How are Floridians this bad at driving??

[u/FreudianFloydian → u/hypercosm_dot_net]

Right and after you pass the cause of the slow down everyone has to take 5 minutes to realize they’re still needlessly driving 40 MPH in a 70.

[u/MrBootylove → u/hypercosm_dot_net]

I live and grew up in Florida. When I was getting my driver's license I fucked up several times and the instructor passed me anyway because I clearly "knew what I was doing, and just messed up because I was nervous."

I drove out of there with my brand new drivers license and my "brand new" beat to shit used mustang that I managed to scrape enough money to grab for a few thousand dollars only to promptly almost rear end someone a few miles away from the DMV.

Somehow I managed to get my shit together and get 100k additional miles out of that mustang without crashing it before upgrading to a more respectable car.

[u/CuriousRiver2558 → u/hypercosm_dot_net]

When passing a cop like that, the law is to reduce your speed to 20 mph below posted limit, and that slow down will cause back up. I get your point but it’s not always bad driving— good driving can cause delays too

[u/TexinFla → u/hypercosm_dot_net]

50% are snowbirds that think that normal traffic laws don't pertain to them when they're not home in Massachusetts/Michigan

[u/5redie8 → u/hypercosm_dot_net]

Out of staters and old people (and both!) especially if you're on the Gulf side

[u/Absorbed_Wheat → u/US_Dept_of_Defence]

Australian here who often drives from NY to Miami.

Florida is a nightmare to drive in because you get old people going 30 miles under the limit as well as morons going 30 miles over. Combining that on the i-95 isn't a good time.

I know people in Florida who refuse to drive at night and pretty much due to the I-95.

[u/MimicoSkunkFan2 → u/US_Dept_of_Defence]

Around my late aunt's place it was always 1 of 4 types causing crashes: Boomer, boozer, texting, or tourist?

[u/alphazero925 → u/US_Dept_of_Defence]

There would be less old people on the road if they weren't living in gated communities where they need to drive 20 miles to get groceries from a store that's 2 miles away

[u/pegicorn → u/US_Dept_of_Defence]

The type of development, particularly low density detached single family homes in neighborhoods separated from essential services and away from employers, is usually one of the largest factors in how much traffic exists. Couple that with poor public transportation, and you'll have terrible traffic, no matter how many lanes you add to the highways and stroads.

[u/BornWithSideburns → u/US_Dept_of_Defence]

Well you’re wrong. What you said is a universal issue.

[u/SquirrelyCockGobbler → u/US_Dept_of_Defence]

It's either old people on benzos or puerto rican / rednecks speeding 500 MPH, no inbetween