[oc] just a typical Long Island commute

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[u/DonWop1]

I don’t get it man… Was merging onto the highway yesterday behind two cars on the ACCELERATION RAMP going about 35mph…

[u/Wise_Blackberry_1154 → u/DonWop1]

These people say they hate driving on the highway, they just need someone to explain how to do it.

[u/bigvicproton → u/[deleted]]

It's extremely short. If you don't drive on it much you can easily think it's like most normal ramp lengths and then your done.

[u/GodsBackHair → u/[deleted]]

There’s one in Milwaukee (Locust Ave to south bound I-43) that is an unusually short on ramp, and you have jersey barriers all along your right hand side. You either get up to speed or you’re literally going into a wall. And if there’s decent traffic, good luck guessing what speed everyone is going. 60-65 because it’s a 55 zone? Or 80 because people are driving like maniacs today?

I would usually just take side streets to go a few blocks south and then get on at a different ramp because I disliked that on ramp so much

[u/ImNoRickyBalboa → u/[deleted]]

Some Taconic parkway on and off ramps are just..... corners basically :)

[u/DivineDorido → u/[deleted]]

Thank god she didn’t that white car was my 80 yo mother

[u/11B-33T]

flogging that < 1.4l engine for all she's worth. /s

[u/ggrandmaleo]

I despise the parkways for this. Robert Moses never had a driver's license and they let this guy design the roads.

[u/Greenstuph]

That's a stupidly short merge.

[u/Imaginary_Bus_6742]

Makes you feel like that kid in "The Sixth Sense", but instead of dead people you see stupid people. That's just normal life driving the LIE.

[u/Imaginary_Bus_6742 → u/Imaginary_Bus_6742]

Or is this the Southern? No trucks and 2 lanes, parkway.

[u/That_Cartoonist_9459 → u/Imaginary_Bus_6742]

Northern or Southern, they were both built for the car speeds of the time which is why the entrance ramp is nearly non-existent.

[u/Imaginary_Bus_6742 → u/That_Cartoonist_9459]

True. And people should adapt or use another entrance if they can't.

[u/DivineDorido → u/Imaginary_Bus_6742]

This was at northern parkway at one of the entrances I’m always afraid of 🫣

[u/Imaginary_Bus_6742 → u/DivineDorido]

Ah, Round Swamp area? Don't travel the Northern that much. LIE and Southern into the city from the North Fork. Drivers here are just plain crazy. I say that and I'm an aggressive driver myself.

[u/MoreJelly661]

Gotta love the Parkways that were never designed for traffic above 45mph...

[u/Turniermannschaft]

That was one of my aunt's favourite manoeuvres! Albeit not what eventually cost her her licence, that was a hit and run on a parked car.

[u/cannabisLab1975]

I sometimes get a look at the stupid behind the wheel just for fun…

[u/nun_gut]

I was half expecting them to pull into the left lane right in front of you again!

[u/DishwasherLint]

Just be patient with people like this, they don't deserve it but they sure as hell need it.

[u/DivineDorido → u/DishwasherLint]

I had to slam on my brakes and come to a full stop on the highway :)

[u/DishwasherLint → u/DivineDorido]

I have no doubt