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Apr. 26th, 2005 01:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
urbpanHere's my highly unscientific analysis of my highly unscientific survey data:
People who have never been to Boston generally have no reaction to the phrase "Boston driver," except for "the people who drive in my city are nuts!"
People who have visited Boston but don't live there think that Boston drivers are nuts.
People who live in and around Boston perceive Boston drivers as nuts, and especially homicidal when it comes to interactions with bicyclists.
I'm surprised only that "Boston driver" isn't a well-known phrase synonymous with "crazy driver," but then again, I grew up only 80 miles from Boston. Pretty much everyone around had been to Boston at least once, and therefore fit into category 2 above. I'm not surprised that everyone thinks that drivers in their city are nuts. Every city I've been to has had horrible automobile traffic. In descending order of terror induced: London, Quito, Tijuana, San Jose (Costa Rica), Chicago, Boston, Rio De Janeiro, New York, San Francisco, Springfield (Massachusetts), San Diego.
The only place I've ever been where the motorists struck me as unusually courteous is Northhampton, Massachusetts.
In case you're wondering why I asked the question at all, a motorist on a boston community was complaining about scofflaw bicyclists (inappropriately, I thought, on a post about a bicycle advocacy meeting). I thought that being a Boston driver is the most fragile glass house that one can cast stones from, on traffic safety issues, anyway.
People who have never been to Boston generally have no reaction to the phrase "Boston driver," except for "the people who drive in my city are nuts!"
People who have visited Boston but don't live there think that Boston drivers are nuts.
People who live in and around Boston perceive Boston drivers as nuts, and especially homicidal when it comes to interactions with bicyclists.
I'm surprised only that "Boston driver" isn't a well-known phrase synonymous with "crazy driver," but then again, I grew up only 80 miles from Boston. Pretty much everyone around had been to Boston at least once, and therefore fit into category 2 above. I'm not surprised that everyone thinks that drivers in their city are nuts. Every city I've been to has had horrible automobile traffic. In descending order of terror induced: London, Quito, Tijuana, San Jose (Costa Rica), Chicago, Boston, Rio De Janeiro, New York, San Francisco, Springfield (Massachusetts), San Diego.
The only place I've ever been where the motorists struck me as unusually courteous is Northhampton, Massachusetts.
In case you're wondering why I asked the question at all, a motorist on a boston community was complaining about scofflaw bicyclists (inappropriately, I thought, on a post about a bicycle advocacy meeting). I thought that being a Boston driver is the most fragile glass house that one can cast stones from, on traffic safety issues, anyway.
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Date: 2005-04-30 04:24 pm (UTC)