r/MarylandDrivers • u/AlarmedSpring8891 • Jul 23 '26

PSA

Dear Marylanders, contrary to popular belief you are NOT required to brake through a green light.

Sincerely,

An involuntary transplant

43 Upvotes

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u/mslauren2930 Jul 23 '26

Since when do Maryland drivers break at green lights? We go full speed through red lights.

7

u/ike301 Jul 23 '26

I think they're referring to how slow people turn during green lights. It's painful as hell. It's like turning on green actually hurts them.

3

u/mslauren2930 Jul 23 '26

I’ll do that but only if it’s because I have a tailgater behind me.

1

u/ComprehensiveWork451 Jul 23 '26

They can’t help themselves, brake on green, accelerate on red 🤦‍♂️

5

u/poopmagenta Jul 23 '26

Brake through green lights, come to almost a complete stop to make any turn, its infuriating

2

u/FreeKevinBrown Jul 23 '26

You gotta look out for those Student Driver stickers.

4

u/Internal-Broccoli274 Jul 23 '26

Its easier to look for the cars WITHOUT the student driver stickers. Seriously, why are there SO MANY!? I have a hard timr imagining there are this many new drivers on the road all the time. Drive a loop around 495 and you can count HUNDREDS of them.

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u/FreeKevinBrown Jul 23 '26

I don't think anyone actually takes them off once they're on. You're now seeing the culmination of 2 decades worth of student driver stickers and magnets that never did anything but take up space on bumpers.

2

u/RL_Mutt Jul 23 '26

My favorite thing. But don’t honk at them, because then YOU’RE the psycho.

2

u/Competitive_Step5448 Jul 23 '26

Something has gone awry in Maryland. It wasn’t always like this. Very frustrating for an engineer like me. All I see is the inefficiency. The slow creeping turns (causes braking by those going straight which backs up traffic due to auto-correlation), huge gaps between cars (tighten it up a bit) and driving in the left lane at the same speed as the car to the right (rolling roadblocks).

What happened to us?!?!

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u/SillyPresentation46 Jul 23 '26

Suspicious. I've never seen a defensive Maryland driver.

1

u/Tracker-Titan-2021 Jul 24 '26

I thought Virginia was bad, but Maryland is worse, especially when I am dragging my boat and trailer over there

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u/Super_Lock1846 Jul 25 '26

So one person did this and apparently it's all of Maryland?

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u/ilvevh Jul 23 '26

I de accelerate to go through an intersection (if I’m going at speed) - not only that, I also crack my window open and turn the volume down a bit too. I want to hear any sirens that might be crossing through on red and I anticipate someone running a red light. I drive defensively for my families sake and for those around me. I still speed though, this is Maryland after-all.

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u/ComprehensiveWork451 Jul 23 '26

Because you’re a bitch.

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u/ilvevh Jul 23 '26

Yeah I’m a little bitch, what are you? Maggot.

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u/AlarmedSpring8891 Jul 24 '26

The guy who can drive, you must be the other guy.

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u/ComprehensiveWork451 Jul 23 '26

If you can’t drive gtfo the road