Comments on: Boston’s Many Douche Lanes

by: Boston Dan

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:18:59 +0000

Chris, that one takes the cake.

Non-douches need to band together and simply ignore the douches - let them die out there, stranded in douche land.

by: Chris

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:09:01 +0000

How about during rush hour when people ride in the right lane of the inbound Leverett connector until the last minute and then cut into the left lane just before you hit the tunnel. It makes me want to do bad things to other human beings ; )

by: ZedThou

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:11:59 +0000

I have to nominate both Brookline Ave inbound lanes at Riverway. Everyone becomes a douche at this location, blocking the intersection in an effort to get through the light, bogging down Riverway northbound traffic.

by: Jennifer

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:48:30 +0000

Heading into Arlington from Cambridge on Mass Ave. The left lane of Mass Ave turns into a left turn only lane. The middle lane is straight on. The right lane is both straight and a right turn. The douche lane is the middle one. When you cross into Arlington there are no lane markings. While the right lane is clearly marked on the road that you can go straight or turn right, many people in the middle lane think that the right lane is for right turns only. The middle lane people proceeding forward either drive down the middle of the two unmarked lanes or migrate immediately to the right and cut off anyone going straight from the right lane. The stretch of Mass Ave from the Rt 16/Mass Ave to Pleasant St/Mass Ave is a double douche lane. While the street is clearly wide enough for two lanes (plus a bike lane), people drive down the middle of the street as if it is only one lane - even when they are in traffic.

by: wellbasically

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:43:12 +0000

I admit to being a douche. I used to hate when people used that right hand lane onto Soldier’s Field, but then I used it and it works, during rush hour at least. Sometimes it’s hard to merge, but I can get into a little race with whoever’s in the center lane (if they’re mad because I’m being a douche), and then slow up to get behind them.

They put this lane in for a reason, because there’s too much traffic for the light. You’ll notice coming over the bridge in the opposite direction, there’s four lanes at the light! which are supposed to merge down to two.

by: David Elohi

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:16:55 +0000

Douche

by: B

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:54:51 +0000

I drive through both of the ones you mention (end of Storrow, North Beacon) almost every day and it drives me crazy what people do. Is it THAT hard to simply follow the traffic rules here?

Another I’d put up for this category is the intersection of Mass. Ave. and Sidney Street in Cambridge near Central Square. If you are traveling away from Boston toward Central, there are two lanes at the light. One is clearly marked a left hand turn lane, and thee is a left turn LIGHT there too. Drivers traveling straight up Mass. Ave. don’t want to wait in line and get over to the turn only lane and when the left turn arrow comes on THEY DON’T MOVE so anyone turning left is stuck behind them for at least another light cycle. I lay on the horn and drive around them often when there isn’t much traffic, but still. Ugh.

Douchelane - very apt.

by: Nathan Williams

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:26:43 +0000

It’s true that the Porter one gets a lot of bad behavior, but I find it puzzling in the first place. Why have two left-turn-capable lanes when Somerville Ave immediately narrows down to one lane? You can’t tell in advance if the person in the far-left lane is going to get in the following left turn slot to turn into White St (not that there’s really enough space to get firmly into that slot) or is just going to go down Somerville Ave, so there’s a rather dubious merge.

by: Jaro

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:43:26 +0000

I have to agree with Giro, Sullivan Sq. rotary is a clusterf**k. I unfortunately have to navigate this death trap and risk my life everyday going to work. Douchewaffles never yield there and don’t get me started on the MBTA bus drivers who, to their defense, are driving a 35 foot monster thru there several times a day.

by: Patrick Maguire

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:33:40 +0000

Great thread. The douche lane in the city I hate the most is the imaginary one that drivers create when exiting left off of Storrow at Copley. I can’t believe anyone allows these fucking assholes who cut in line to merge in. There is often a long line of people waiting their turn in the single, left lane, to exit left. Invariably someone tries to come up on the right side and cut in quickly, and unsuspecting drivers get caught off guard and get cut off. Tighten up the line people!!! Maybe we should pitch in and hire the same snipers who killed the pirates to stand right at that intersection and pick these people off one by one.

Funny story: My buddy called me from Logan last week while waiting in the TSA Security line. A woman cut in front of him, a family, and another solo passenger, and started putting her stuff on the belt. The guy she cut right in front of told her the line forms at the rear, to which she replied, “I have to catch a flight.” Did she actually think everyone else was just there practicing waiting in line??? Double douche. Hate them all.