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What irks you most about your daily commute?

What irks you most about your daily commute?

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JIM BAUMANN

JIM BAUMANN, Beavercreek Twp.: “The traffic lights that are not synchronized on North Fairfield Road. Even if there is no cross traffic, it seems like I’m forced to stop at every traffic light.”

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DELLA MOHR

DELLA MOHR, Fairborn: “People who ride your bumper, like they want you to speed. I’m like, ‘I’m not going to speed! Are you going to pay for my ticket?’ “

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GAYE BELL

GAYE BELL, Atlanta: “If there’s a minor accident, the rubbernecking is really a big thing. That really can hold things up for hours. Even if someone’s just pulled over for a traffic violation, that can start the rubbernecking.”

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JONATHAN ELKINS

JONATHAN ELKINS, Beavercreek: “People driving in the left lane with everybody else going by them in the center and slow lanes. I’m pretty sure that irks everybody.”

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ROBERT KORN

ROBERT KORN, Miamisburg: “I live less than a mile from where I work, so nothing about the drive really bothers me.”

Comments

By Cat Slobber

April 20, 2011 7:26 AM | Link to this

The never ending construction on I-75 that slows everything to a crawl.

By Day In, Day Out...

April 20, 2011 8:26 AM | Link to this

Traffic engineers who claim they want to move traffic smoothly then leave lights on thoroughfares untimed. Particularly I-675 @ Indian Ripple. They are more worried about getting cars off the ramps which have more capacity for sitting traffic than letting people thru the morass of untimed signals on Indian Ripple.

By Tony

April 20, 2011 8:34 AM | Link to this

The gas prices!

By Squirrellygirl

April 20, 2011 9:09 AM | Link to this

The potholes on I-675 around the 35 interchanges, both South and North. Huge pot holes, covered up multiple times, broken pieces of cement everywhere—it can’t be safe to drive on that so I stay in the right hand lane. I also hate the drivers who think they need to teach me and everybody else a lesson by getting up on my bumper and then while they are still in my lane going around me real close to show me I am driving too slowly. I don’t know where the police are, but they never seem to notice these people, and it’s getting worse, especially around the entrance to the base. I hate the gas prices, and Obama’s regulatory czar isn’t helping anything here, along with the monetizing of our debt and giving billions to Brazil to drill there. I hate driving in adverse weather so I always drive slower because I can’t make sudden moves in my vehicle or I’ll be all over the road and lose control. I wish they would fix those stupid pot holes on the highways!!!

By BT

April 20, 2011 9:16 AM | Link to this

All the idiots texting, reading, putting on makeup, combing their hair, waiting till the last second to decide this is the exit they have to get off at, driving 30 MPH over the speed limit, driving in the dark and/or rain with no lights on. I could go on, but you get my point.

By Armondo

April 20, 2011 9:23 AM | Link to this

The traffic light at Alex-Bell and I-675. LA Fitness must have paid off the city of Centerville to get this light cycling all the time in favor of their access road. During rush hour traffic on Alex-Bell sometimes waits through 3 lights just to get through this intersection. The whole time there’s practically NO cross traffic using the green light to the LA Fitness access road. I’ve seen the whole area completely gridlocked because of this but the problem persists. Centerville must not have a traffic engineering department. Either that or they need to be fired.

By Love my home office

April 20, 2011 9:34 AM | Link to this

Worst part of my commute? It’s when my wife is going up the stairs while I’m going down the stairs to my home office. Gas cost=$0; parking=$0. I love my job!

By @By Armondo

April 20, 2011 10:01 AM | Link to this

If you call the police dept and report the light they will fix the timing of it. Just let them know that its cycle is messed up. But you have to call and report it.

By Love Dayton

April 20, 2011 10:11 AM | Link to this

With everything going on in the world, why I am I not surprised by the inane comments and focus on the minutia? Traffic lights? Come on, people! Get a life! Help those less fortunate. Recycle. Overthrow the corporate idiots who’ve taken over the rights of most Americans. Fight for a living wage. Donate to charities in need, etc.!

By Distance

April 20, 2011 10:23 AM | Link to this

While living out of state, I drove 81 miles one way, (162 R/T) daily, to and from my job. Each segment took 90 minutes. This went on for one year before being transferred to Dayton. My commute here is easy, but more combative and annoying due to the sheer stupidity and arrogance of what I assume are genetically inbred Dayton area drivers. I hum the tune from “Deliverence” continually while out in traffic with you mental dwarfs.

By kinney

April 20, 2011 10:28 AM | Link to this

Distance…You dismiss others as “arrogant” then look down on them as “Stupid” and “Inbred.” Hmmm…seems that you are practicing the very definition of “arrogance.” Hypocrite much? Good luck staying in your job amongst us “inbreds” with your “people skills.”

By Distance

April 20, 2011 10:51 AM | Link to this

@kinney: It is good you come to the defense of those that are mental midgets behind the wheel. You confuse extreme caution out among you Dayton drivers as arrogance on my part. As you are challenged daily with even the most simple of tasks..I didn’t expect you to be able to define a definition. Everyone needs a champion, kinney…and you’re #1. Remember, the long vertical pedal makes it “go”…and the wide horizontal pedal makes it “stop”. Ask your special education aide what the rest of the controls do…I’m sure you’ll do fine as you’re losing control of the vehicle and causing mayhem and destruction to everyone around you. My job is secure…your job is to limit the inevitable damage you and your cousins provide upon the pot hole roads of Dayton. I like your banjo playing.

By @by Love Dayton

April 20, 2011 10:51 AM | Link to this

This thread is about what irks you most driving to work…your comments are not related to this article. Don’t you have any comments relating to this article? Or are you a one-trick pony democratic left wing radical with nothing else to talk about except for the socialist takeover going on right now in America from the presidency on down and the denial of American rights and the manipulation of our laws to fit the socialists’ agenda?

By nullio

April 20, 2011 11:41 AM | Link to this

Annoyance: drivers that drive 5 feet from my bumper! Don’t do it!

By Quentin

April 20, 2011 12:16 PM | Link to this

Simple, the idiots who cut me off and slam on their breaks or refuse to even TRY to get over when I am pulling a 10,000 trailer! Hint, it has HUGE blind spots, does not stop fast and I can put it to the floor and still can’t accelerate like your little gas sipper that I would run over as a speed bump! Also, if you are in MY turn lane because you want to turn left on to Grange Hall from Kemp while I try to turn on my street, NO I will NOT just sit there blocking traffic and yield to your stupid rear anymore! I am getting tired of idiots on their phone or etc taking up the turn lane and flipping ME off when I go to use it. Those little lines and rules of the road like yielding, slower traffic to the left and etc are there for a reason even though the police only care to go after you if you are speeding.

By bg

April 20, 2011 12:19 PM | Link to this

Gas Prices!!! Idiot Drivers!!!

By Squirrellygirl

April 20, 2011 12:34 PM | Link to this

Don’t get on my bumper because I use my brakes when I think someone is too close behind me. I always do this. It isn’t safe to go fast speeds with someone on your bumper. Usually people get the idea and get in the passing lane. If you are in a hurry, it will keep your blood pressure down if you don’t tailgate. Just pass the person. They have a right to drive at a safe speed. You have the right to kill yourself if you want, but don’t take someone innocent out with you while you’re doing it.

By American Made

April 20, 2011 1:03 PM | Link to this

I would say I got pretty annoyed on Monday when I had to drive to Cincinnati via I-75. The ‘jersey’ barriers are so close together I thought I was going to knock the side mirrors off of my truck. The potholes are insane. The construction is horrific. And the little idiot going 45mph in the fast-lane while twirling the string of his i.d. badge around his fingers over and over again was pretty annoying. I should have just monster-trucked over him and called it a day. Lol. And the price of Diesel. $4.19/gal. Wow.

By Rebel

April 20, 2011 1:18 PM | Link to this

The fact that I can no longer listen to The Rebel 105.9 radio station because some idiotic company for NKU bought it out. Now they only play music that makes you scratch your head wondering what you’re supposed to be smoking in order to understand and enjoy the crap they play.

By null

April 20, 2011 1:20 PM | Link to this

face it we all dislike the way the other drives

By karon

April 20, 2011 1:26 PM | Link to this

PITCH the Car day! Dayton and the suburban regions should pick a certain day and hours and instead of driving, just walk or bicycle or take the bus , to the store, resturant or movie or your work! Just dont drive on the day and the certain hours that our picked!

By D Day

April 20, 2011 1:52 PM | Link to this

As I said during the last scenes in the movie “Animal House”>>>>RAMMING SPEED!!!!!!!

By Thomas Kohn

April 20, 2011 2:53 PM | Link to this

The need for taking city streets when the river bikeways are flooded. Last September, an inattentive or aggressive driver hit me on North Perry Street when I was forced from the bikeways.

By Louden Wainwright III

April 20, 2011 8:43 PM | Link to this

Dead skunks in the middle of the road.

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