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Wrong Way lady? Honk!!!!

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Mayfriday0529

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On my drive to work I got a little scare this morning. For those of you that know the area I will describe the roads.

So I?m driving northbound on the Meadowbrook Parkway and I?m about 100-150 feet from the exit to get on to the Southern State Parkway east. I make my approach to get off when suddenly I see this green car driven by a WOMAN coming the wrong way against traffic. I honk my horn and swerve the car to the right to avoid it and she keeps going. I look at my rear view mirror and I see all the cars avoiding the lady and also swerving in both right and left sides. Luckily it looked like no one got hurt and the lady driving the car made it into the emergency side of the parkway.

I don?t understand how she could have got on the wrong way.

Cliff notes.
-Going to work driving in parkway.
-A Woman got on the parkway driving wrong way.
-I avoided a head on collision
-She luckily didn?t hit anyone.
 
Perhaps the on-ramp wasn't clearly marked? Or divided highway that's hard to tell that it's not 2 seperate roads?
 
i was in the my friend's car as she was driving north on I-87. we switched lanes as we approached the top of a swell and as we peaked a little old lady was heading southbound in the right-handed lane.

if we hadn't switched lanes it would have been very, very bad.

at the next speed trap i saw a couple of people pulled over talking to the police officer, ostensibly to alert him to the little old lady.
 
Originally posted by: franksta
Perhaps the on-ramp wasn't clearly marked? Or divided highway that's hard to tell that it's not 2 seperate roads?
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Believe me, those ramps are very clearly marked.
 
everyone knows that sterotype has been proven over and over..
women for the most part cannot drive... they too busy..
A: talking on cell phone..
B: doing makeup in the rearview mirror..
C: trying to figure out how to work the radio the climate control or
D: all the above at once....


there are a few exceptions... Women Professional Motorsport drivers.... but not many =-P
 
Originally posted by: PowerMacG5
Originally posted by: franksta
Perhaps the on-ramp wasn't clearly marked? Or divided highway that's hard to tell that it's not 2 seperate roads?
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Believe me, those ramps are very clearly marked.
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And all those crazy people going the wrong way! My word! These whippersnappers today!
/end crazy old lady voice
 
Originally posted by: Jnetty99
On my drive to work I got a little scare this morning. For those of you that know the area I will describe the roads.

So I?m driving northbound on the Meadowbrook Parkway and I?m about 100-150 feet from the exit to get on to the Southern State Parkway east. I make my approach to get off when suddenly I see this green car driven by a WOMAN coming the wrong way against traffic. I honk my horn and swerve the car to the right to avoid it and she keeps going. I look at my rear view mirror and I see all the cars avoiding the lady and also swerving in both right and left sides. Luckily it looked like no one got hurt and the lady driving the car made it into the emergency side of the parkway.

I don?t understand how she could have got on the wrong way.

Cliff notes.
-Going to work driving in parkway.
-A Woman got on the parkway driving wrong way.
-I avoided a head on collision
-She luckily didn?t hit anyone.
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Glad you and eveyone is OK.

I grew up there on Long Island.

I Miss the Parkways because no Trucks on them :thumbsup:

In case anyone wondering, they were designed that way by Robert Moses to keep a suburban flavor to the region.

Trucks run on the Long Island Expressway (I-495), Jericho Turnpike, Sunrise Hwy and Montauk Hwy.
 
Originally posted by: Papagayo
Please don't generalize...
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There's a point where it stops becoming a generalization or a stereotype and when it starts becoming a fact.

Numbers are facts, not generalizations.
 
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: Jnetty99
On my drive to work I got a little scare this morning. For those of you that know the area I will describe the roads.

So I?m driving northbound on the Meadowbrook Parkway and I?m about 100-150 feet from the exit to get on to the Southern State Parkway east. I make my approach to get off when suddenly I see this green car driven by a WOMAN coming the wrong way against traffic. I honk my horn and swerve the car to the right to avoid it and she keeps going. I look at my rear view mirror and I see all the cars avoiding the lady and also swerving in both right and left sides. Luckily it looked like no one got hurt and the lady driving the car made it into the emergency side of the parkway.

I don?t understand how she could have got on the wrong way.

Cliff notes.
-Going to work driving in parkway.
-A Woman got on the parkway driving wrong way.
-I avoided a head on collision
-She luckily didn?t hit anyone.
Click to expand...

Glad you and eveyone is OK.

I grew up there on Long Island.

I Miss the Parkways because no Trucks on them :thumbsup:

In case anyone wondering, they were designed that way by Robert Moses to keep a suburban flavor to the region.

Trucks run on the Long Island Expressway (I-495), Jericho Turnpike, Sunrise Hwy and Montauk Hwy.
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actually we discussed this in my history class.

Robert Moses designed the overpasses to discourage the presence of buses on the parkways. Automobile owning whites would be free to use the parkways, but poorer minorities who use public transportation were kept off the roads, limiting acess to public parks like Jones Beach.
 
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