According to a new report from Forbes, Fort Worth comes in 15th among the cities where you're most likely to get into a crash. But Dallas? It tied for first place.
Some of the people who drive Altimas, Chargers, Challengers, Mustangs, Ford Trucks, old Toyotas, some Chevy trucks, BMW, high class people who dont know what blinkers are, and out of state people.
I left DFW a couple years ago but when I lived there, bad drivers made my daily commute hellish. A normally 35 min drive would turn into an hour and a half because there'd be 1-2 crashes on my way nearly every day. To and from work.
I thought I have driven with the best , downtown Chicago for 14 years , I have lived in dallas for 3 months , people drive like they are prepared to die 😂
Actually the constitution says you don’t need a license to drive unless you are going to and from work! Oh and cops lie telling you driving is a privilege but the legal side of this matter is the Supreme Court says driving is not a privilege it is a Right!
I just got back from Houston yesterday and those drivers were terrible same drivers in Austin and San Antonio too. Las Vegas was bad as the tourists town but Texas worse.
They don’t use turn signals even tho it literally takes a second to use it and they love to ride your ass and don’t give enough room. Very aggressive bad driving in Texas and I come from Chicago which is extremely tame driving compared to here
Here is the answer as to why it is so bad. There are zero police enforcing traffic laws. That is why people can do 110 in busy traffic or cross 4 lanes at once. Also if they hit you they don't stop because even if you get their plate the police won't bother going after them.
Don't blame out of towners/transplants for this, blame Texans who dont know how to properly drive and a state that refuses to properly fund driver training..
Or... A state & maybe even the local municipalities themselves that planned & built the city in a way that everyone HAS to drive can also be the blame...
DFW drivers are hostile, aggressive. Intolerable and down right nasty. A lot of attitude coming from a place that is in the middle of nothing but garbled North Texas prairie. Doesn’t even have a major river running through it.
Back in 1950s and 1960s, Dallas was an engineering town. The fully integrated circuit was patented back in 1958 at Texas Instruments. One of the first satellites was tested for NASA at Collins Radio in Richardson in 1960. Collins engineers went on to provide the telecom equipment for the 1969 moon launch. Ross Perot started EDS in 1962. TI came up with those handheld calculators in 1967, and Docutel in Irving received the patent on the Automated Teller Machine in 1969. This all took an enormous amount of engineering talent. The patents created wealth and jobs. This brought in millions of people who don't really want to be here but were driven here by the economic activities from those decades.
Honestly this is not a Dallas problem, I'm from the Austin area and it's the same crap, crashes every freaking day. Seems like it's a culture problem, Texans think posted speed limits don't exist, specially on the left lane causing tons of crashes daily and slowing traffic every day on rush hours.
So Dallas is tied with Atlanta - that does not surprise me at all. Atlanta drivers are horrible, selfish, incompetent and more interested in their phones than actually diving. But when I need a break from the Atlanta drivers, I just head to Big D, where I grew up and still have family, and I feel right at home. Big difference, though. While Atlanta's highway system is a reject from the 1960's and is completely obsolete, Dallas drivers don't have that excuse. You guys are building, hands down, the best urban highway system in N. America - and you still drive crazy.
Which only goes to disprove your theory that THIS is the best we can do? Having more lanes, more flyovers, more levels, more NJ barriers, more concrete, etc. only serves to make people want to hurry it up and get the hell out of this chaos ASAP. More mass transit & better suburban planning is how it's done right.
