top cities with the rudest drivers.......

wow, miami topped boston and new york???????? when I drive in st louis, I always notice how rude and non courteous they are, and if there are that many cities above st louis, I never want to drive in those cities....



MIAMI - For the second straight year, rude Miami drivers have earned the city the title of worst road rage in a survey released Tuesday.

Miami motorists said they saw other drivers slam on their brakes, run red lights and talk on cell phones, according to AutoVantage, a Connecticut-based automobile membership club offering travel services and roadside assistance.

Other cities near the top of the rude drivers list were New York, Boston, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

South Miami resident Erik Pinto told The Associated Press he's probably seen every bad driving habit on Miami's roads.

"You don't want to know what I've seen," Pinto said. "I've seen everything. I'm from L.A., and we don't see the crazy drivers that you see here."

Portland, Ore., drivers were the least likely of the cities to see other motorists tailgating on the roadways, and St. Louis motorists were the least likely to swear at another driver, the survey found.

Minneapolis-St. Paul was rated the most courteous city in 2006 but slipped to the middle of the list this year.

The most frequent cause of road rage cited in the survey was impatient motorists. Drivers also cited poor driving in fast lanes and driving while stressed, frustrated or angry.

"The best piece of advice is to take a deep breath. Slow down, be aware and be careful," AutoVantage spokesman Todd Smith said, adding the aim of the survey is to increase driver safety across the nation.

More than 2,500 drivers who regularly commute in 25 major metropolitan areas were asked to rate road rage and rude driving in telephone surveys between January and March. The survey was conducted by Prince Market Research has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.

The list, ranked from those reporting the most incidents of road rage to the fewest:

1. Miami

2. New York

3. Boston

4. Los Angeles

5. Washington, D.C.

6. Phoenix



7. Chicago

8. Sacramento, Calif.

9. Philadelphia

10. San Francisco

11. Houston

12. Atlanta

13. Detroit

14. Minneapolis-St. Paul

15. Baltimore

16. Tampa, Fla.

17. San Diego

18. Cincinnati

19. Cleveland

20. Denver

21. Dallas-Ft. Worth

22. St. Louis

23. Seattle-Tacoma

24. Pittsburgh 25. Portland, Ore.

 

Man, I'm surprised Ohio (Cleveland) isn't higher up on that list.

 

My current commute to work takes like 10 minutes now. I do not miss driving at least an hour each way for over ten years...

My city is lower on the list than I expected too.

 

Same with Philly, our streets are so old that they become a new obstacle course of insanity every day.

 

I'm surprise Chicago isn't in the top 3 personally. I've never seen a ruder place to drive.

Then again, I've never been to NY or Boston.

 

If you've never been to NYC, wow you will be in for a suprise if you do manage to get there. Try merging onto one lane of the Holland Tunnel at night. Wow is about all one can say

 

I don't doubt it. I was in shock in Chicago when I needed to merge over in traffic. I made eye contact with a driver, asked if he'd let me in, and he said No.

In 15 years of driving in Atlanta, I've never seen anybody say No after making eye contact.

 

Yea, even in Philly, NORMALLY eye contact will never fail, although sometimes you have to open your window and ask. I always let people in though, and on highways I ALWAYS let trucks get on, even if Im late, but then again I work for a truck/freight brokerage company and I know how hard it can be for them to merge.

 

aha, I thoguht 'Pittsburgh' should be on there
but never thoguht it would be

noone can drive for shit here

 

farmington, new mexico, is fucking awful, too. i've noticed that anywhere there's a primarily affluent society, drivers are really fucking rude. they just act like you're not even there, self-important pricks. what the hell do you lose letting someone in? i'm pretty good at bulldogging my way into traffic, loads of practice.

 

my travel in chicago was the worst experience that I ever had. most nerve wracking, thats for sure.... driving through the freeway in chicago during rush hour at 8 am was no fun

 

Oh lucky me--I live right smack dab between San Francisco and L.A., so whenever a traveling weekend comes up I get the worst of the worst drivers from both cities coming through.

 

Texas was pretty bad because everyone drives right up your ass at 90 mph. Florida's was bad because you have to share the road with crazy punks, uninsured illegals, passive aggressive yuppies, and a million old farts that can't see past the windshield.

 

US drivers are tame little kitties compared to Honduran drivers.

 

Haha... I'm not surprized D.C. and Philly were on there.

 

I've been to Boston but not N.Y. Personally, my vote goes for Chicago too. Although it's more the pedestrians than the motorists in Chi-town, in my opinion.

 

top cities with the nudest rivers?

they drove pretty bad when i was in buffalo.. they'd swerve around people that were on the left side of the lanes to pass them.

 

I cant stand going to portland, those drivers are dumb as shit. That and its like driving between the cones.

 

You've never been to Boston in the fall?