There are to many overly passive drivers in Des Moines. Particularly ones that think they need to be in the left lanes. At least with aggressive drivers they are generally paying more attention.
Specifically in the Des Moines area there are rural people who think they are in the middle of nowhere still. You don’t have to be super aggressive here but relatively regularly I will come upon someone who is going slow enough that it’s hard to even pass them if you get to close. Those people are super dangerous. If you can’t at least get up to 60 on the ramp you can’t drive on the interstate.
Additionally, something to consolidate the onramps\offramps might be a decent idea with hickman\university like they have for some of the downtown offramps. All the traffic entering\exiting around there creates half of the problem.
My personal pet peeve is 35N at the east mixer. There's like 4 lanes coming together, each has their own lane and yet so many cars have cross the solid line to change lanes immediately. WHY?
I don’t mind going slower. My biggest problem spot is coming home in the east mix. A couple of times a month I have a tough time getting on there because people are going to slow. I will be trying to accelerate to get up to speed while watching behind to merge yet have to worry about someone who can’t get up to speed or isn’t going up to normal speed. The worst offenders are actually in the middle lane. They go 55-60 and you have to merge around them because they are going so far below the pace of traffic.
I don’t like super aggressive drivers but I still am of the opinion that slower people are more dangerous. Super aggressive people are at least generally paying attention to what they are doing even if they push it sometimes. They are still relatively close to what other drivers are doing. The super passive drivers in my experience are ignorant of their surroundings and far more dangerous.
That's actually really stupid and dangerous. Take other roads if you can't go at least 60.
Timid drivers trying to merge into rush hour traffic is the worst and is absolutely dangerous. Slower is not always safer in every situation. I see it all the time trying to merge on to I235 east bound on 31st St. Traffic in the merge lanes is terrible there because everyone is getting over to exit on MLK and Keo. I have seen multiple near accidents because someone slows way down because they dont know how to deal with the heavy traffic.
I **** with those people hard! People who are in a hurry to get to a red light entertain me endlessly and I tend to try to piss them off by legally hindering them. Not bragging or recommending.
Yes, the article I just found says they are shooting for sometime in sept.
