Thank you so much for this article. I was so excited to read someone else was noticing this, I made my husband stop what he was doing and listen to me read it aloud to him. We both felt so validated after reading it. We think we were probably on Court St on that Thursday for the three-point turn incident you wrote about, as we experienced first-hand that very same scenario. We were heading South on Court when an oncoming car quickly pulled left and nosed into an empty parking spot, and then proceeded to complete his three-point turn right in front of us. We could not believe it was even happening. We had to laugh because we saw his left turn signal on, and I joked to my husband, “Where does he think he’s going to turn left?” After we recovered from our stunned silence my husband joked, “Well, I guess there’s your answer.”
And the number of people running red lights is frightening. I travel up Pilgrim Hill Road daily and take my left onto Summer St. The number of times a car speeds through the red light on Summer Street is frightening. And even if they have a green light and take the left onto Pilgrim Hill Road, they do it at full speed and barely miss the car stopped at the red light on Pilgrim Hill Road. They perform more of a drift than an actual left turn. It is frightening out there for sure. It’s a “rules are for other people” mentality that seems to be growing.
I could give a hundred examples of that, but I’ll spare you my soapbox.
Thank you so much for this article and all you do at The Plymouth Independent. We need this local newspaper, a bedrock of democracy. You have definitely filled a void.
Keep up the terrific work.
– Patti and Kevin Weston