I've lived here for 43 years

Also yes, there are countless bad drivers here and the syndrome crosses all gender and ethnic lines.

Let's make a wagon wheel!

This is a very good answer.

This times a thousand.

How many cops does Worcester have now? How many did they have in 2019?

I have grown up and lived in Boston before moving here and obviously besides things like running red lights (which I haven’t seen at a rate like this since the Boston Police used to do it back in the 90’s) there is also a problem with no consistency on driving style.

Boston works because everyone is trying to get where they are going and everyone knows to be “aggressive”, but I can’t tell you how many times I have almost rear ended a clueless driver who stopped more than a car length away from the car in front of them or stopped way too far from the actual crosswalk. Also how have people not learned who is suppose to stop, who yields and that the person already in the rotary has the right of way in Newton Sq?

I know it’s more of a serious answer, but I really think there are too many people who are not used to city driving from the surrounding towns as well as more transplants in MA in general. It just feels like I am operating with a different set of logic with the drivers around me. And I’m not even going to get started on the dirt bike gangs that room the street during the summer

We have plenty of cops. They just spend all their time scrolling their phones and collecting overtime at construction sites instead of doing their actual jobs.

This is wrong. Worcester drivers suck.

Living/driving on the north side 190-290 change for 25+ years. When I’m in the car and my husband or neighbors drive they’re like white knuckling the slit and lane (just kidding what paint?) changes. Makes me laugh EVERY TIME.

And ignore the turning lane to go straight up Belmont

Near Elm Park - OMG! 3:30 on Friday's, a cop with a cash register would cover the schools' budget for a year.

The part on not having enough cops is probably part of the cause. The defund the police movement did have an impact in Worcester. Many cops walked during that time and they haven't hired enough to fill the spots of everyone who walked. Not to mention there were some who were fired for being dicks.

When you have fewer cops, people will notice and be more reckless. Crime will start to increase as well. We're starting to see this happening across the country since so many people wanted to defund the police. It should have been more about regulations on spending and having better training than defunding imo.

Same. Feel like that’s a legit death wish around here though

All good ideas. Everything seems daunting because our whole world is so "car brained"

If we had protected bike lanes or bike infrastructure separate from cars tons of people would use it.

it always was scary clown music. you just needed to redshift your mind...

Went to Worcester for the first time today since moving near by in January. I never want to drive there again. I’ve driven in a lot of cities around the country and have never been more wtf am I going to die than today.

time is money and food at bagel time is 3 times more expensive than it's worth. GET THAT CHEESE!

Probably because nobody is used to a rotary being there, and hey, it's Kelley Square.

lots of people from 3rd world countries here, including my parents so chill with the racist shit. If you’ve ever driven or been a passenger in some of these countries where most of worcesters immigrants come from, it’s pretty simple why the driving here is worse than nyc where i spent most of my life. the driving in worcester is not comparable to any experience i’ve had one usa, but very similar to some other parts of the world, especially poor and crime ridden parts that people have the fortune to leave

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No. I’m a Ma native. Then I lived in RI for over a decade and now I’m back in Ma. Both have shitty transportation infrastructure, especially around the cities. Both just suck. I drive like a madwoman, in my opinion, because I’m actually trying to arrive at my destination and I see the same assholes in both states, quite honestly. I don’t understand why you want to bring RI into it.

It’s the grid of the city. It’s the bad timing with lights, one way streets, congestion and pedestrians when you’re already irritated. Take deep breaths and be caaaalm, caaaalm, it’ll be ok. This will slow you down just a minute but you’ll make it to your destination alive and in one piece.

people here also don’t seem to understand that if there’s a lane to the right of the driving lane, you should enter it before turning. people turning onto commonwealth from hamilton love to turn from the middle of the road. apparently they’ve never heard of a turn lane