[Marie]

I’ve lived in Miami, Fla., for several years and am constantly baffled by the lack of respect given to emergency vehicles. I’ve seen ambulances stuck in intersections because crossing traffic refuses to yield. Is this disregard becoming a national epidemic, or is it isolated to the notoriously bad drivers of Miami? If you live outside Miami, do the drivers in your city yield?

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[SR28510]

I cannot count the number of times I’ve seen emergency vehicles trying to maneuver down one of the busiest streets here (in front of the university) while a car pushes on the gas and speeds out ahead (obviously ‘in a hurry,’ I suppose) or a student runs across the street as the vehicle approaches (trying to make it to class on time?). I’ve never been to Miami, but I know that idiocy and selfishness aren’t geographical.

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[John]

I’m afraid that driving manners everywhere are taking a turn for the worse. No matter where you go, the drivers there will be a little worse than where you came from. In general, though, the larger the city the worse the driving.

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[Hugo21340]

I have to concur with your opinion of the driving conditions in Miami. I did a lot of litigation down there over the years and always dreaded getting on the roads. Come up to Tallahassee some time for a change: people pull over for emergency vehicles. They do not honk their horns at you if you don’t immediately get into motion if the light changes. They will wave you into traffic. There was an article in the Tallahassee Democrat a few years back by some Miami reporters who were bewildered by the presence of traffic manners up here. Just this morning a client from Miami remarked that she couldn’t believe how ‘nice’ the traffic was – I assured her that this was simply the way things are SUPPOSED to be, and that cities like Miami are the anomaly…..

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