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As a Michigan transplant (to Vermont), I have never really had an issue with the roads in Michigan, and they are much better than many places to drive. Boston or Montreal are much worse for example. The roads are flat and straight and wide and generally go somewhere, and you can usually get there from here. Maybe because it is where I learned to drive, but I prefer Michigan drivers and the general rules of the road and courtesy that apply; properly aggressive, without hostility or endless road rage. Vermont drivers for example, this weird blend of 50's country politeness mixed with Boston nastiness, just doesn't work.
I will admit that after driving all over the country and through many of our major cities, for years I found Lansing to be impossible to explain how to navigate around and through, as a result of the most confusing and misnumbered interstate highway system anywhere. The completion of I69 though, after what 40 years or so, has fixed that for the most part.
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is Michigan still part of the Union?
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Yup - I remember going back for the 20-year high school reunion a few years ago (Go Marauders!) and had to get used to that - didn't like it, and seemed kinda strange.
There were cloverleafs for some of the other left turns - those made more sense to me - but it still took awhile to get used to turning right to make a left turn.
Well, at least the sliders were good - can't get those in San Diego, except in the frozen section of the grocery store - and that's just not the same.
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Michigan Lefts aren't so bad. They usually even have signs before you approach the intersection that say Suchandsuch Road Keep Right. And then at the intersection they have a sign with a diagram (shown on wikipedia).
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Thanks for the links AllGold. I'll be sure to check them out!
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While in Michigan recently, I ignored every single last one of the no left turn signs. Why? No one can be expected to drive into a state and understand what a totally foreign mechanism of left turn light that either stays constantly on red, flashes red, or works normally...means. A light that chages from flashing to constant red? that cycle is not in any other area I've been to and I don't want to guess...so I just turned left anywhere and everywhere I damn well wanted.
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Glad you didn't get a ticket or cause an accident. Sheesh!
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Yeah, like left turns all-throughout civilized socieites cause instantaneous death every time they are implemented.
It's like, there's NO ONE COMING....I'm not driving another 1/2 mile, just to sit at the SAME LIGHT ....again...for another cycle.
That is and the road designers in Michigan were/are STUPID.
