I’ve seen my fair share of people driving the wrong way on one-way roads. Can’t rely on people following the rules.
Rules are meant to be broken
Considering some of the horrible drivers out there, this isn’t a bad idea
You never know if someone will be going wrong way down a one way street
I’ve had this happen 10+ times in my life, so always look both ways.
I have done this
I had my license maybe a year, and i had gotten lost downtown at night.
I came to a T intersection, with a one way road, but couldn’t figure out which direction to go. I panicked and picked a direction
I only realized when i saw a row of headlights heading my way
bad habit
You have to look the other way anyway in case there might be pedestrians or cyclists crossing your path.
Or another car
If someone is going the wrong way down a one-way, you really want to know about them.
I remember a vid of a cyclist going the wrong way down a 1 way street. Pedestrian didn’t look that way and bam. Guess who the cyclist blamed.
Where I’m from most one way streets are only one way for cars and such, bicycles are often explicitly allowed in both directions
Not to say that it was the case in the video
It happens more often than you think.
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I stand in the street and yell at them until they back up and turn around on the street i live on
I personally see it on my street once or twice a month, seems unlikely I’d happen to see it every time it happens
And the person doing that is a bad driver and/or has attention problems
It’s true, I don’t think very often.
Pedestrians?
Cyclists are the worst
Moving from a walker hostile city to a walk friendly city, I forgot they existed and had some close calls. I’m pretty aware of them now.
I used to live next to a one way street that was two ways all around it. One of the only one way streets in that small town, next to where all the bars were, in a college town, and there was just enough of a hill to make it so two cars at opposite ends of it could not see each other. It was only a block long but the number of crashes and death defying attempts at crossing it on foot was astounding
Did that once, cost me 30 bucks. Didn’t see the sign, whoops. I did notice once it was too late tho.
I always do this because I have gone down too many one way streets and found someone else going the wrong way. It’s not uncommon
If you do it every time, you won’t forget when it’s important.
My friend complained that there is no reason to use turn signal to show me parking on the side of the remote road in the middle of the night. I just said “It’s a muscle memory”. Later he bought himself BMW and things came clear.
The anecdote my dad always told me was being smart is knowing it’s a one way street, being wise is looking both ways anyways
I live on a one way street. the amount of times people go the wrong way is too high.
Meanwhile:
Me crossing a 6 lane freeway.
How did you post image?
PFM? Pure Fucking Magic. Dammit guess I will never know.
Lemmy uses markdown, so almost any “how” question can be answered by looking up “how to x in markdown.”
For example, the first DDG result for “how to post an image in markdown”: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/markdown-markdown-images
official guide is at https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/
True, but sometimes people get overwhelmed when looking at the full guide rather than a “how to do x” process. Like looking at a man page vs. an example subsection.
This is a great resource, though, and thank you!
Thanks!
Any time I can spread the good word of markdown, I’m happy to do so.
By the way, I don’t know which ones, but many Lemmy clients have buttons to simplify common markdown (links and images are notoriously easy to mess up). On my client, Connect, there are a row of buttons below the text entry area to help with formatting and syntax. It’s also how I upload images if posting from my local client rather than somewhere already online.
I don’t know your client, but it might be worth checking whether these buttons exist for you so you don’t have to remember / look up the syntax.
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hey look! someone is doing the standard practice
You are doing it right! One never knows.
Yeah well looking the ‘wrong’ way on a 1 way street has stopped me from getting run over, and looking both ways before going on the green has saved my life from a red light runner when I was on my motorcycle.
You basically need to assume everyone in a car is an axe wielding maniac out to kill you if you’re on a motorcycle. I had a family member crash after a driver didn’t look left before pulling out of a driveway and put them out of commission for a few months, plus some new hardware. Stay safe!
That attitude has kept me alive for 23 years of riding. Many have tried to kill me, but I saw most of them coming and got lucky the couple times I didn’t.
if you’re
not on a motorcyclenot in a larger car
I’ve seen enough vehicles driving the wrong direction that I’m not risking it.
