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Originally Posted by devilsadvocate
Chicago driving isn't that hard.
*waits for laughter to subside*
No, really. It's gotten worse over the last 10 years or so on which I blame cellphone usage, but the trick is (and always has been) to know where you're going. Things happen fast in Chicago traffic so you have to know in advance what you're going to do. The line of traffic behind you isn't going to wait for you to figure it out; the time for that was when you were still at home planning your trip. There isn't a window-mounted GPS fast enough to handle the inbound Ike or the Tri-State, and you'd better know where the construction is happening before you leave, because I guarantee you it's happening somewhere.
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Sounds a bit like NYC. The old joke is "You can't get uptown in the morning, you can't get downtown in the afternoon, and you can't get
across town at
any time!" It's largely true. (I live across town from Penn Station, the main Amtrak station. There have been times when I was traveling by train where if I wasn't burdened with luggage and/or dealing with bad weather, I could have
walked there faster than the cab got me there.)
I don't own or drive a car, and I tell people the only ones in NYC who
do are either being paid for it or are
nuts. Of course, I'm in an area where anything I need on a day to day basis is within a couple of blocks walk of me, there's a good 24 hour public transit system, or I can hail a cab. If I'm traveling outside of NYC, it's probably far enough that I take Amtrak or fly.
I've ridden in a few cabs driven by guys who drove like they were born too late, and
really wanted to be kamikazes crashing into US warships in the Pacific during WWII. Friends in Boston tell me I'm lucky, as that's what the
average Boston driver is like, and I don't want to
know about Boston
cab drivers. I'll take their word for it, thanks.
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Dennis