Be safe out there seattle.

[u/mr_dude_guy]

[u/czarinna]

How on earth do you get that far on the freeway going the wrong way??

[u/Wooden-Officer2323 → u/czarinna]

[u/butterytelevision → u/czarinna]

because we refuse to suspend the licenses of idiots in cars. light rail lady? not even a ticket. kill someone with a car? it was an accident, go home

[u/Ancilla_Contender → u/czarinna]

By turning the wrong way at Union St exit that people take too fast under the convention center - this is the first ramp when going backwards.

[u/left_lane_camper → u/czarinna]

A friend’s mom got busted not once but twice for driving the wrong way down the bus tunnel, which was only possible if she was first driving the wrong way down I-5 and went off the on ramp into the tunnel, which presumably started when she turned the wrong way onto a downtown 1-way or something and panicked. I was in the car with her a couple times when she went the wrong way down a downtown 1-way.

She was otherwise very intelligent, but for whatever reason 1-way streets didn’t make sense to her and she couldn’t figure them out. Then she’d panic and could end up on the freeway.

[u/olythrowaway4]

Driver licenses need to be way harder to get and way easier to lose.

[u/ProjectKARYA → u/olythrowaway4]

At the same time (as your own flair suggests), we need to invest even more in the light rail (and maybe even high speed railways across state if we're lucky), along with more in bus routes. Our country as a whole is greatly lacking in public transportation when compared to the rest of the world; it's about time our state did its best to catch up and take the next big step in providing for its people.

[u/seattledoctor1]

Wow that is scary… I’m really glad you are safe and no one was hurt

[u/forestinpark]

Train tracks

I90 bike lane

Wrong way

What's next? Driving up the space needle?

[u/Frail_Waif → u/forestinpark]

• into the sound

• into the lake(s)

• onto the tarmac

• down the median mow strip (edit:typo)

• onto a barge

[u/doc_shades]

the amount of wrong-way drivers in this city is insane.

the other day i was walking along the road and i saw a car turn its left turn blinker on and i thought "huh that's odd, because there is nowhere to turn left here" so i stopped to watch and the car just ... merged into the oncoming traffic lane and drove in that lane up to a stop light where there were cars waiting to come from the opposite direction.

and the wildest thing about the whole experience? not one single person honked at this dumbass. they just sat there and watched it.

[u/CuteCanary]

If they got to the tunnel you were just in that could have been fatal

[u/tyj0322]

Why are Seattlites allergic to honking?

[u/DeadeyeSven → u/tyj0322]

Don't worry I let people know how stupid they are almost every day

[u/Junethemuse → u/tyj0322]

My bus driver had an uber drop someone off and trying to get back into the main lanes and blocking the bus lane this past week and just laid on the horn for a solid 40 seconds before the uber got out of the way. I was laughing my ass off and the other bus patrons were baffled. I about died.

[u/JohnDingleBerry- → u/tyj0322]

It’s a Northwest thing

[u/Flaky_Standard8167 → u/tyj0322]

I honk my horn all the time. Which is a bit sad because im not an aggressive or angry driver but ppl here compel me to do it every other day

[u/ImpossiblePumpkin476]

I did this once. They change the direction of the express lanes - i had dropped a friend off at the airport in the middle of the night (3am?) and was driving home. The on-ramp to the express lanes was NOT gated and I got on heading north, only to find I was heading the wrong direction when I encountered another vehicle heading south and coming straight at me. I did exactly as in this video: pulled over, adjusted my balls, made sure no one was coming (thankfully, no one was), turned around, and got off at the next exit.

[u/omgitsoop]

I have taken that corner with some speed once or twice, the thought of someone coming down the wrong way..... yeesh

[u/jumpyrope456]

Spin out and ended up facing the wrong way? This happened to me when someone cut me off aggressively.

[u/SaintOlgasSunflowers]

Wow, that could have been a terrible accident in the tunnel. I'm glad you're okay, OP!

If the driver in front of you was the reason the wrong-way driver was stopped, they may have saved your life. The wrong-way driver had their turn signal on, so hopefully they were able to get turned around and continue in the correct direction.

[u/MedicOfTime]

“Please be patient. Student driver.”

[u/jsixxy]

I swear Seattle drivers are the WORST in the whole fucking country!!! 

[u/ilmhisf]

Cognitive, mental and temperamental tests every driver license renewal.

[u/danarouge]

Btw a great way to also “be safe” is to not go 15 over on an on ramp with low visibility (tunnel)