Originally Posted by
jackal
I'd modify that to where
recovering from ditch diving is considered an art, lane markers are invisible, and a yellow light means go faster (and a red light means "Oh, ****!").
[Growing up here, I thought it was standard practice to have a two-second delay after one light turns red and the crossing direction's turns green. It wasn't until I was old enough to drive myself in California that I noticed the change there from one direction's red to the other's green was instantaneous. Combined with the lengthy yellow lights here, there's about six seconds of warning of the coming of cross-traffic. That's plenty of time to speed up and get through the intersection!
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Until it was finally repaved this year, I've been in third world countries with better roads than Minnesota Drive going south from downtown. You could almost say the same thing about the Glenn between downtown and Eagle River. The stunning combination of studded tires and poor construction quality!
I think the traffic light delay is very smart due to the number of people here that either slide through when it's icy, or who just don't give a **** about the safety of others and run it anyway.