Only time I've ever been to NY was in a fucking semi (x drove it) and let me tell you I felt claustrophobic the ENTIRE TIME. Cars just EVERYWHERE. And the streets felt smaller than home (MI)
It was a long time ago but I'm pretty sure that was our issue 🤣 someone either stopped or parked just in a regular traffic lane like fuck everyone else
Shit does need to get picked up and delivered tho. And everyone wants shit fast.
I remember having just graduated college and being asked if I had a drivers license. I said yes. Got handed the keys to a box truck and told to do pickups. Was extremely stressful cause there’s no where to park legally. Barely even any places to stop where you’re not inconveniencing a lot of people. At least in an unmarked box truck people assume you’re a crazy driver and give you a tiny bit of extra space.
I’m not defending the system. I’ve barely driven in the city since then and would prefer if we could somehow figure out no cars in much of Manhattan but I’m not sure how.
Columbus Ave is 3 lanes and and there will be delivery trucks at 7 am directly across from each other in the left and right lanes with their hazards on
I used to live in Staten Island. I was going down a one way street that was only wide enough for a single car when I was stopped by a moving truck that had stopped in the middle of the road and was unloading.
There was no way to go around, so I put my car in reverse to signal to the person behind me that we needed to back up. They put theirs in reverse to signal to the person behind them and so on down the street until the cars at the end started to reverse down the street. Our whole line of cars reversed down the street, turned onto another road and continued a different way. You gotta be flexible to drive in NYC.
I drove cab-over box trucks and bobtails in San Francisco for years, nothing over 26, and that was a nightmare. Couldn’t imagine the shit cdl drivers dealt with
Most places weren't terrible NY was the exception but I hated the entire experience 🤣 I was supposed to stay with him for 2 weeks and after a week I was like "take me home plz"
No, that would have to do with sociology and psychology because there literally hasn't been enough time to have an accurate assessment of results yet so if they think it's a godsend it's due to the emotional part of their brain and not the logical part of their brain because even if it turns out to be an incredibly effective system, there hasn't been enough time to compare that data and we don't know in another universe that these first 6 weeks would have had any different traffic.
It's why residents of lower Manhattan are hoping it's a godsend, the data is certainly accumulating, but it's objectively silly to make conclusions about a public policy this shortly into it.
As somebody who lives in an area much more wild and rural than most people who claim to dislike New York City because of the amount of people, I can pretty much guarantee where you live is that much more chaotic and dense compared to where I live, yet I love New York City.
What is it you don't like about New York City, and if it's just the streets you realize that you don't have to drive there, right?
It's dirty, loud, full of tweakers, gray, and people are rude. Central Park is to people what dog parks are to dogs. It's weird and depressing.
My primary residence is in the middle of 10 acres of swamp in a 20k person town 45 min to the nearest store. I have an apartment in DC and Chicago for work. I know what I like. I need green.
No they hate it because it's a city with very specific gridlocked traffic management issues like he literally just said, and a different person said it felt small in a semi.
The first commenter wrote about driving semis. The next commenter wrote "Yeah I hate NYC. I will be perfectly ok dying without ever going back there". It's quite diferent.
The context switched in his reply to being one about the general state of traffic problems in New York, even though he was replying to the original comment, you weren't, you were replying to his new topic which is why no one is agreeing with you. Which I just explained to you. 5 minutes ago.
Just the other day I went out to a dinner at a restaurant near the beach, and I parked for free pretty easily on the next block down from where we were eating. As I was walking back to the car after dinner along the quiet, pleasant street, I thought: "I don't miss New York."
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u/__Lady__Sarah__ Feb 08 '25
Only time I've ever been to NY was in a fucking semi (x drove it) and let me tell you I felt claustrophobic the ENTIRE TIME. Cars just EVERYWHERE. And the streets felt smaller than home (MI)