Speaker 1: It's nice size. I'm Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: So today I had to drive early this morning, well
Speaker 2: for me early this morning, it's nine o'clock when you
Speaker 2: work until midnight, and once again I was reminded how
Speaker 2: bad Massachusetts drivers are. Okay, now, it just so happened
Speaker 2: that on this very day there was a report, a
Speaker 2: scientific report. My feeling is a little more subjective, but
Speaker 2: I suspect some of you might feel the same way.
Speaker 2: A lending Tree, a lot of these companies now do surveys,
Speaker 2: and this seemed to be a pretty legitimate survey by
Speaker 2: a company called lending Tree, and basically they concluded that,
Speaker 2: according to the latest lending Tree study, it seems pretty scientific,
Speaker 2: Massachusetts had the worst drivers in the US. Well, Arkansas
Speaker 2: has the best. Now Massachusetts has the worst drivers in
Speaker 2: the US because from November fifth of twenty twenty three
Speaker 2: through November fourth of twenty twenty four, that's a year
Speaker 2: Massachusetts drivers had sixty one point one incidents, which meant accidents, DUI,
Speaker 2: speeding and citations per one thousand drivers. So you have
Speaker 2: about a six percent chance if you're a driver in
Speaker 2: Massachusetts in any given year to get into an accident,
Speaker 2: have a DUI as speeding or a citation. Okay, the
Speaker 2: next worst drivers are in Rhode Island. Also, maybe we
Speaker 2: have an influence of an Island and also California, but
Speaker 2: we're the worst. We're the worst. According to this this data,
Speaker 2: the best drivers in the US are from Arkansas because
Speaker 2: they have per one thousand drivers only fourteen point seven.
Speaker 2: We have four times the number of incidents, which means
Speaker 2: again accidents to UIs speeding in citations. We have the
Speaker 2: highest accident rate forty four point four accidents per thousand.
Speaker 2: The only other state about forty is Rhode Island. In California,
Speaker 2: they die for second, and then they talk about drunk
Speaker 2: driving the District of Columbia. What you expect three point
Speaker 2: six d UIs per thousand drivers. I suspect a lot
Speaker 2: of politicians and members of Congress that get pulled over
Speaker 2: for DUI in the District of Columbia probably get to pass.
Speaker 2: But that's not why I think we have the worst drivers.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you why I think we have the worst drivers.
Speaker 2: I watch how other drivers drive. And one of the
Speaker 2: things that drives me nuts about Massachusetts drivers, and I
Speaker 2: guess we're talking Boston drivers, is this and I wonder
Speaker 2: how many of you can identify with this. You're sitting
Speaker 2: at a traffic light, you're maybe the sixth or seventh
Speaker 2: car from the traffic light, and the traffic light turns
Speaker 2: green or the arrow gives you you can turn left,
Speaker 2: whatever turns green. How long does it take for you
Speaker 2: to move if you're the sixth or seventh car, Well,
Speaker 2: that's determined by how quickly the first, second, third, fourth,
Speaker 2: fifth car move. And wherever I am, and this morning,
Speaker 2: I was on Lake Street in Brighton. I was about
Speaker 2: the sixth or seventh car back, and of course the
Speaker 2: traffic light turned green, and it wasn't like the intersection
Speaker 2: was blocked. The driver at the top just stood this,
Speaker 2: didn't move. Finally, after about five or ten seconds, they
Speaker 2: eased into the intersection and they took a left, and
Speaker 2: then the driver was right behind kind of eased through
Speaker 2: the intersection straight. And of course by time I got
Speaker 2: to the intersection, I was a six or seventh driver.
Speaker 2: The light is red. Now I'm put in the position
Speaker 2: I didn't run the red light because I'm not crazy,
Speaker 2: but there's no reason for me to be stopped at
Speaker 2: that red light. If the driver's in front of me,
Speaker 2: we're a little more aggressive. So I think our problem
Speaker 2: in Massachusetts is not that we're too aggressive, that we
Speaker 2: speed too much, that we get into too many accidents.
Speaker 2: I think the problem is we're not aggressive enough. It's
Speaker 2: as simple as that. When that light turns green, if
Speaker 2: you're sitting and you're at the first car, you're going
Speaker 2: to get through, even if you wait until the last second,
Speaker 2: and when it turns yellow, you'll be able to go
Speaker 2: through on the yellow, but no one else will get through.
Speaker 2: Then you have the people in Massachusetts who have to
Speaker 2: roll into the intersection which is blocked. Okay, you can't
Speaker 2: get through the intersection. You roll into the intersection and
Speaker 2: you block I was driving into Boston. I was riding
Speaker 2: into Boston on Saturday night. Come all avenue, you know
Speaker 2: what the ritz is. You take the right there and
Speaker 2: come aalth Avenue right at the public garden, and all
Speaker 2: of these people, one car, two cars will get through.
Speaker 2: Why because people are blocking the intersection. Now, in New York,
Speaker 2: if you block the box, you're going to pay. You
Speaker 2: are going to pay a hefty fine. And as a
Speaker 2: matter of fact, there are plenty of police officers. But
Speaker 2: in Massachusetts and certainly in Boston. The administration wants to
Speaker 2: make it miserable in drivers, and we're stupid enough as
Speaker 2: drivers to make it miserable upon ourselves. So what I
Speaker 2: want to do is I want to open up the
Speaker 2: phone lines and ask you do you think we have
Speaker 2: good drivers in message bad drivers? I think we have
Speaker 2: bad drivers. Because if you're sitting there and the light
Speaker 2: turns green in the middle of the morning commute, what
Speaker 2: in God's name do you need to go forward? What
Speaker 2: are you doing in your car that when it turns
Speaker 2: green you don't see the green light? Why do you stop?
Speaker 2: Why do you delay? Okay? And of course the other
Speaker 2: one is you're on Route nine somewhere and all of
Speaker 2: a sudden you hear in the distance a siren. Someone's
Speaker 2: going to the hospital. It could be your mother, it
Speaker 2: could be your father, could be your brother, your sister.
Speaker 2: Would anyone like move through the intersection against a red
Speaker 2: light to get out of the way of the ambulance,
Speaker 2: to allow that poor person who's in the back of
Speaker 2: the ambulance maybe they have a chance at life. No way,
Speaker 2: no way, because even if there's nothing coming, they will
Speaker 2: sit there holding on to dear life, to that steering
Speaker 2: wheel and hoping that somehow the act the ambulance that's
Speaker 2: coming behind them will go up on the sidewalk somehow
Speaker 2: and get around them. But will they take a right
Speaker 2: and get out of the way and maybe they may
Speaker 2: have to like get them to work two or three
Speaker 2: minutes late. Nope, they're gonna sit there and they're gonna
Speaker 2: wait for that ambulance and they're gonna wait for the
Speaker 2: intershactions the light to turn green, and then still they'll
Speaker 2: hesitate going through. We are the worst drivers in America.
Speaker 2: We're selfish. All we care about is us getting through
Speaker 2: the light. We're not thinking about moving through the light
Speaker 2: as when it's safe. I don't want you to run
Speaker 2: through the light and get t boned. Move through the
Speaker 2: light when it turns green. Look both ways, just like
Speaker 2: your mother told you, get to the light and allow
Speaker 2: people behind you also to get to the light. That's
Speaker 2: my complaint, and I think that we're bad drivers because
Speaker 2: we're not aggressive enough when I say be aggressive. Don't
Speaker 2: be aggressive when the light's red. Oh no, no, be
Speaker 2: aggressive when the light turns green and it's time for
Speaker 2: you to go, because there's people be behind you who
Speaker 2: are probably honking their horn at you, and it's probably
Speaker 2: me six one seven, two, five, four ten thirty six
Speaker 2: one seven, nine thirty. Let's have at it. And if
Speaker 2: you disagree and you think that we're too aggressive, plot,
Speaker 2: feel free to bring it on. We're coming back on
Speaker 2: night Side right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Get to the phones. Let us get to the phones.
Speaker 2: Going first up to Warren down to the South coast.
Speaker 2: Hey Warren, how are you tonight? Hey?
Speaker 3: Dan? Yeah, first off, Merry Christmas, Very Christmas to you,
Speaker 3: the best of the holidays. Yeah, I drive all over
Speaker 3: Rhode Island in Massachusetts. I've had two for my jobs.
Speaker 3: Yeah that I've had, and yeah, I've seen there is
Speaker 3: a reason why, you know, Massachusetts and Rhode Island are
Speaker 3: by far the worst drivers. And I think it's a
Speaker 3: lot to do with congestion. You know where like if
Speaker 3: you go into Boston, Boston was not made as a
Speaker 3: driving town. It was more of a horse and buggy
Speaker 3: walking around kind of city. And that really contributes to
Speaker 3: why it's, you know, the drivers so bad because it's
Speaker 3: so congested. I mean, in Fall River, you wouldn't believe
Speaker 3: what I see down there. I've seen literally the worst
Speaker 3: kind of driving, you know, known the man. I've seen
Speaker 3: people go wrong way on the one way, you know.
Speaker 3: I've seen you know, like I go through a couple
Speaker 3: traffic lights on the way on the way home. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and I've seen people just blow right through you know,
Speaker 3: you know, you know kids on.
Speaker 2: These careful you got you, they don't stop.
Speaker 3: And I've seen people not stop, and I've seen really
Speaker 3: bad habits. One thing that drives me nuts is like
Speaker 3: if I'm driving on the highway and you get someone
Speaker 3: coming on to the highway, they don't increase seed like
Speaker 3: they're like they're driving like they're driving on a on
Speaker 3: a back country road somewhere, and they're doing thirty miles
Speaker 3: an hour and they don't increase seed. And so like
Speaker 3: if you're in the if you're in the right lane
Speaker 3: and you and you're doing you know, say sixty sixty five,
Speaker 3: you come up on them very very quickly, and you
Speaker 3: have to make a split second decision. God forbid, if
Speaker 3: you have a you know, a truck or a car
Speaker 3: on the side of you, Yeah, you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: that's I mean, I can I mean we can probably
Speaker 3: trade ripes, you know.
Speaker 2: So, so would you agree with me that we're bad
Speaker 2: drivers because we're not aggressive enough? I mean I'm just.
Speaker 3: Saying yeah, I mean, yeah, there are there are a
Speaker 3: lot of very cautious people out there, like overly cautious.
Speaker 3: I mean, Paul River is pretty much an aging, you
Speaker 3: know community. There's a lot of elderly in there. So
Speaker 3: like if you get behind someone who is in their seventies,
Speaker 3: eighties or even nineties. I have a I have a
Speaker 3: neighbor who's in the in the in their nineties and
Speaker 3: they still arrive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you get.
Speaker 3: Behind them, and you know, you might be going down
Speaker 3: the road. It might take you. You know, it might
Speaker 3: take you five minutes when it took you a minute,
Speaker 3: you know before to get down the road.
Speaker 5: So you know.
Speaker 6: So, but anyway, I get.
Speaker 2: There's there's a push. There's a push in Boston to
Speaker 2: basically you know, look, the mayor has decided that she
Speaker 2: wants to get cars out of the city.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Bike lanes, oh yeah, bike lanes everywhere.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The last the last couple of times I've been in
Speaker 3: Boston for a concerts and all stuff like that. I mean,
Speaker 3: I forget where it is, but there's like one concert
Speaker 3: hallway and there's literally a bike lane right in the
Speaker 3: middle of the middle of the road.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I was.
Speaker 2: Like, that's Ken that's Ken Moore Square. They've had that.
Speaker 3: I couldn't believe that. I was like, you gotta be
Speaker 3: kidneys on this. And then they.
Speaker 2: They're they're on a jihad. They're on ah. Of course
Speaker 2: in Boston, and the automobile people who rely on automobiles
Speaker 2: better wake the hell up because if they don't, they're
Speaker 2: going to find out that automobiles will soon be eliminated
Speaker 2: from Boston congestion.
Speaker 3: But I also think it's also bad planning. I mean,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of questionable intersections in like in Boston,
Speaker 3: in the like in the cities like Providence is one
Speaker 3: where you know, there are some very questionable it's you know,
Speaker 3: you know place you know places where you know traffic
Speaker 3: goes through, and you're kind of like, you know, why
Speaker 3: is this set up like this?
Speaker 2: You know? So I hear you Ward, thanks for getting
Speaker 2: us going here. Appreciated.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you. Merry Christmas again.
Speaker 2: Mary Christmas, right back at you. Let me go to
Speaker 2: marry and Newton. Marry you next night side welcome Mary
Speaker 2: and Newton. Now you're there. If you're not, I'm going
Speaker 2: to put you on hold.
Speaker 7: Yes I am here, Dan, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2: I almost lost you there. Mary, thanks for picking up.
Speaker 2: Go right ahead.
Speaker 8: You're welcome.
Speaker 7: Dan. Now I'm here. Yeah. I do agree one hundred.
Speaker 7: It is bad, severely bad Massachusetts drivers, along with out
Speaker 7: of status. And believe me, I have seen it day
Speaker 7: in and day out, going to work or not. And
Speaker 7: regardless of what the city does, spending money going around
Speaker 7: putting up all these signs, it is the driver one,
Speaker 7: regardless what city, what telling you're in, regardless I sit
Speaker 7: behind cars, the light is green and nobody moves, and
Speaker 7: when you blow the morn or something, they look at
Speaker 7: you like.
Speaker 8: You're the wrong ones.
Speaker 7: You're the bad ones.
Speaker 2: Did you you're in culta that you have the audacity
Speaker 2: to wake people up. I know that. I know that.
Speaker 2: I know the look Mary, Believe me, I know the look.
Speaker 7: I see them on the cell phones day in the
Speaker 7: hand in front of their face. We're in the minds
Speaker 7: who gave them the license. They don't see what in
Speaker 7: front of them. I don't care what signs you put
Speaker 7: up on anything. They don't see anything or anyone do
Speaker 7: eating sandwiches. They got the elbows on the steeling wheel,
Speaker 7: and I'm told to pull it by the police. They
Speaker 7: have to witness this. They don't have enough to be everywhere,
Speaker 7: and they have to witness this. How do they have
Speaker 7: enough police officers.
Speaker 8: To witness all this?
Speaker 7: I complain to the police when I see something, I
Speaker 7: say something, Well, how are they gonna see that? How
Speaker 7: many of them get away with that and get go
Speaker 7: out and kill people? They're not the only ones on
Speaker 7: the road. What are they thinking?
Speaker 8: Who gave them the license?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're not all. Mary. Thank you for joining us,
Speaker 2: and I thank you for your testimony and I agree
Speaker 2: with you totally. Thank you so much. Merry Christmas, Mary, Oh,
Speaker 2: same to you again.
Speaker 7: Thank you very much for taking my call. Thank you
Speaker 7: very welcome.
Speaker 2: Thanks for calling in. Good night. Let me keep rolling here.
Speaker 2: Gonna go next to Chris, who's in Boston. Chris, you're
Speaker 2: next time night, So I go ahead, get you in
Speaker 2: here before the news break.
Speaker 4: Hey, damn, happy holiday.
Speaker 9: How you doing?
Speaker 2: What do you sell? What's on a holiday? Do you celebrate.
Speaker 9: Christmas?
Speaker 10: It's given New Year?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna wish you a merry Christmas, okay, because.
Speaker 9: I'm going with the flow.
Speaker 2: No, no, I'm with you on that. But you know what,
Speaker 2: what in September when they have Labor Day and you
Speaker 2: say goodbye, don't you say that people have a nice
Speaker 2: Labor Day and all of that, they don't say. I know,
Speaker 2: they say happy Labor Day. So I'm into like whatever
Speaker 2: you celebrate. If you celebrate Christmas, I want to. I
Speaker 2: want to wish you a very merry Christmas.
Speaker 9: Merry Christmas to you too, Thank you appreciate it. I drive, say,
Speaker 9: five six days a week, I'm a chauffeur and not
Speaker 9: seeing it all all happen all the time. These people,
Speaker 9: the way they drive. Reason why Massachusetts drivers are unsafe
Speaker 9: because of their ignorance of their drive and they do
Speaker 9: not follow the rules of the road. They constantly cause
Speaker 9: an accident but have a lot of road rage. Oh
Speaker 9: wait a minute, we also got illegal immigrants who now
Speaker 9: have licenses.
Speaker 4: That's another reason why.
Speaker 9: And it's just people just don't have respect for other
Speaker 9: human beings. They don't have respect for the law, they
Speaker 9: don't respect the rules of the road. They drive like
Speaker 9: they fit a rage and somebody doing the right thing,
Speaker 9: you know, it's like they honk the horns. It's just
Speaker 9: like exactly what you said, Dan, every time that light
Speaker 9: turns green, you're honk a horn and they look at
Speaker 9: you like what it's like, no move?
Speaker 3: Are you see minded?
Speaker 4: Green light means green, red.
Speaker 3: Means stop, you know, and then when they stop moving.
Speaker 9: They they start driving. So I'm with you totally.
Speaker 2: This is exactly how what I believe. And I just
Speaker 2: there comes to a point in time where you just say,
Speaker 2: what are you thinking? If look, if you're out at
Speaker 2: noontime on a Thursday. Okay, maybe you're you're you're retired,
Speaker 2: maybe you're unemployed, but if you're driving at nine o'clock
Speaker 2: on a Tuesday morning, I got to assume you're going
Speaker 2: to work or you're going somewhere. And why do you
Speaker 2: want to tie other people up?
Speaker 9: That's what it always gives exactly exactly, you know what
Speaker 9: the things that people good at doing, Dan, they like
Speaker 9: to annoy people. Honest to god, I feel that Boston
Speaker 9: is an unhealthy city because it's just too much stressed,
Speaker 9: too much problems. People are just too how you say,
Speaker 9: traumatic and problematic and cause other people problems instead of
Speaker 9: respecting other people. But you know, but yes, I totally,
Speaker 9: totally agreed that Massachusetts definitely is is the number one
Speaker 9: of the worst drivers.
Speaker 2: A right, Chris. I appreciate the backup and the support. Tonight.
Speaker 2: You call my show anytime. I like you.
Speaker 4: Okay, God you take care, Dan.
Speaker 2: Thanks man, Merry Christmas. Right back at you. Talk to
Speaker 2: you soon, Eric, you too, Thank you, all right, thank
Speaker 2: you much. We take quick break at the news at
Speaker 2: the bottom of the hour. I have one line in
Speaker 2: six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty one line
Speaker 2: and six one, seven, nine, ten thirty. Let's light them up.
Speaker 2: Were the worst drivers? I think we are, but not
Speaker 2: because of what the statistics show. I think we're the
Speaker 2: worst drivers because we're not aggressive enough. I don't want
Speaker 2: you running red lights. But when the damn light turns green,
Speaker 2: step on it, look both ways and step on it.
Speaker 2: Simple as that. We'll be back on night Side right
Speaker 2: after this.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w B
Speaker 1: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Back to the call as we go here, as we
Speaker 2: work our way through Tuesday night, Craig, Craig your next time. Hi,
Speaker 2: welcome evening.
Speaker 5: I want to say, Ohio, driving, I'm sure it's nothing
Speaker 5: compared to Boston's, but uh a lot. Once a week,
Speaker 5: maybe I'll pull up behind someone and you know, the
Speaker 5: red light turns the green and they're sitting there and
Speaker 5: it's it's called consideration. They're on the stinking cell phone.
Speaker 2: Yes, and.
Speaker 5: You know it's uh, you know, like I had to
Speaker 5: go in to Columbus this morning. I take veterans to
Speaker 5: their doctor's appointments over there. But I just see, you know,
Speaker 5: there's three lanes, break lights, put on your turn signal
Speaker 5: when you have to get over the eggs relatively easy.
Speaker 5: And you know, if you're in a rush to get
Speaker 5: to work, if you're not fifteen minutes early, your late
Speaker 5: dude taught her into it, you know, just leave earlier.
Speaker 5: And as far as the Merry Christmas, I drop out
Speaker 5: a Christmas card to my boss to eight Ria said
Speaker 5: Merry Christmas. Not go ahead. He looked at it. I
Speaker 5: said I could have been woke and said happy Holidays,
Speaker 5: Love Craig. He goes, no, this is met.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm happy that Merry Christmas is making a comeback.
Speaker 5: For sure, But uh, good luck with boss and driving Danah.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you it's it's a losing battle there there.
Speaker 2: They need to be a little bit more considerate. It's
Speaker 2: as simple as that. I would argue a little bit
Speaker 2: more aggressive. Thank you, Craig, always great to your voice.
Speaker 2: Thanks man, talk.
Speaker 5: Soon, Take care now, all right?
Speaker 2: Six seven, four thirty, triple eight nine to nine, ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Let me go down to sand in tone to Dave
Speaker 2: and sand in tone. Dave, how are you, sir?
Speaker 4: It got to disagree with you, Dan. I agree that
Speaker 4: you're driving. There is really can nerve wrecking, but it's
Speaker 4: not near as deadly as what's down here.
Speaker 6: Dan.
Speaker 4: They don't have a steep speed limit. There is no speed.
Speaker 2: Lift car accidents every year in Texas.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there is no speed limit. Then there is none.
Speaker 4: I couldn't I can't believe. I say my prayers every
Speaker 4: time I get out in the dark car with my door.
Speaker 2: There's no speed limit anyway. There's no speed limit anywhere
Speaker 2: or when you get out of the open road.
Speaker 4: Just about close to the city, not the open road,
Speaker 4: but on these six lane highways, six lanes on each side. Hey, yu,
Speaker 4: and these cars go by you like you're standards still
Speaker 4: and you're doing the speed limit of seventy five. Really yeah, interesting, interesting,
Speaker 4: it's it's really frightening being on these highways, folks. Folks
Speaker 4: and Texas are used to it, but I'm not. I'm
Speaker 4: used to like you are making the people go in
Speaker 4: the red light or something.
Speaker 2: But well, that's that's the thing that's really frustrating is
Speaker 2: that you're sitting in a light. You're seven or eight
Speaker 2: cars back, you know how long the light is, and
Speaker 2: you say to yourself, look, all they want to do
Speaker 2: is just get through this light, because but yeah, they
Speaker 2: sit there, they don't move and as they say, even
Speaker 2: when ambulance is coming up from behind him there, they're
Speaker 2: frozen in fear. David, I don't know. We are the
Speaker 2: worst drivers in America in my opinion. In my opinion,
Speaker 2: we'll see.
Speaker 4: My wife drove for a little while down here when
Speaker 4: they went fire like that, she yelling at the male's
Speaker 4: only half full.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 6: I like that.
Speaker 2: All right, pal, you be careful down there. We want
Speaker 2: to lose. Don't want to lose you.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, yeah, I made my daughter put a rosary
Speaker 4: on her window corner rear view.
Speaker 2: Whatever works, whatever works. I believe in that stuff. Okay,
Speaker 2: thanks Dave, we talk soon. Good night, have a great one.
Speaker 2: Let me go next to Phil a little closer to home.
Speaker 2: Phil is in wrinth Them. I know we're rinth Them?
Speaker 2: Is Phil your next night side? What do you think?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: Dad?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do agree with you that we have the
Speaker 4: worst drivers in America. I don't agree that we're too
Speaker 4: we need to be more aggressive. I think we're too
Speaker 4: aggressive period. But at lights, which is lazy, we're just distracted,
Speaker 4: We're we're not paying attention. And then when somebody gives
Speaker 4: us a little two you know, you know, give me
Speaker 4: a give a little people in your horn, you know, hey,
Speaker 4: get moving. They look at you like the other guys
Speaker 4: you know on the radio sets. They look at you like,
Speaker 4: what are you at? Suirp, Come on, let's go. It's
Speaker 4: it's a green light, you know.
Speaker 2: I don't want anybody to blow through an intersection, But
Speaker 2: it seems to me that if you sit there and
Speaker 2: you realize that the traffic on the in the in
Speaker 2: the intersection is not going through, just go. The light's green.
Speaker 2: Why did you go? You're going to get through the intersection,
Speaker 2: But why don't you get through the intersection so that
Speaker 2: a few more people can get through it? That's that's
Speaker 2: really the point I'm trying to make. I think when
Speaker 2: you say we're selfish, I think we are selfish as drivers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree with you on that. I mean I
Speaker 4: drive a track of trail through, wasn't it. And I'm
Speaker 4: taking an early retirement because I just don't want to
Speaker 4: be on the road anymore. There's so many crazy It
Speaker 4: doesn't matter what time of day or night. It could
Speaker 4: be two three in the morning and people will just
Speaker 4: that they're bored and they want to cut in front
Speaker 4: of you, you know, break check you. You know, I
Speaker 4: don't know if they just have anger issues and they
Speaker 4: want to, you know, just make other people angry because
Speaker 4: they're angry. And then you got the people who don't
Speaker 4: know what the yield sign means and they either just
Speaker 4: come on to the highway at a regular speed expect
Speaker 4: you to slow down or move over for them, you know.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you want to get in funny, fine,
Speaker 4: but just put your foot on the gas pedal and go.
Speaker 4: It's as simple as that. But no, oh, come to somebody,
Speaker 4: I think I'll do things.
Speaker 2: Don't mess around with don't mess around to people. Run
Speaker 2: the big rigs. I mean, come on, they're out there
Speaker 2: making sure that there's food and supplies and in grocery stores.
Speaker 2: H make their life a little easier. It's as simple
Speaker 2: as that. I have a lot of symph get people
Speaker 2: who drive big rigs because I know I couldn't do it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I agree with you, but I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, you're hauling forty tons of goods behind you.
Speaker 4: Cannot stop on a dime, you know, I mean, and
Speaker 4: it takes you forever to accelerate when they slow you down,
Speaker 4: you know, And it's like the trucks won't go more
Speaker 4: than say sixty eight miles an hour anyways. You know,
Speaker 4: it's a safety thing. But you know, I try to
Speaker 4: be as considerate as I can on the road for
Speaker 4: other people. But I think when they see some people,
Speaker 4: when they see a truck, it's like, oh, here we go.
Speaker 4: Tend to play some games. I mean, yeah, I'm just exaggerating,
Speaker 4: but that's what it seems like.
Speaker 2: I think you're right. I think again, we are selfish
Speaker 2: and it exhibits itself in a number of ways, a
Speaker 2: number of characterizations. I agree with you as always. Phil,
Speaker 2: Thank you very much for calling an interesting perspective. Thanks
Speaker 2: so much.
Speaker 4: Thanks Thanks having me bight too soon.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's keep rolling here. Let me get one we're in.
Speaker 2: Don't want to tie people up before the break. Where
Speaker 2: will we go next? Let's go to Angelo in Angelo,
Speaker 2: you are next on nightside.
Speaker 6: Go ahead, sir, Hello Dan Ray.
Speaker 8: I agree with you one hundred percent. There's too many
Speaker 8: distracted drivers. I've been sitting in red lights and I
Speaker 8: see people looking at their phones, eating their phones, or
Speaker 8: reading a book and not paying attention. One time, I
Speaker 8: was sitting in lights. Okay, there was a line of
Speaker 8: cars in front of me, and the cars that were
Speaker 8: in front of that cor already taken off and before
Speaker 8: that cat, you blow the end before.
Speaker 4: They even got to the red light.
Speaker 8: The red light has already changed. It's unbelievable. And I
Speaker 8: don't know if you know, I knew the Center Square.
Speaker 2: I'm very familiar with Newton said yes, what do you
Speaker 2: want to say about him?
Speaker 8: And believe me, I've seen old people walk through there
Speaker 8: with the walks signs of the blinking light. And it
Speaker 8: was an old guy walking across the street and there
Speaker 8: was a car that came flying right by him. It
Speaker 8: did not even slow down. What's the matter with people lately?
Speaker 8: I can't believe what I'm seeing lately. I'm seeing a
Speaker 8: police officer and then mode of the road with his
Speaker 8: hands with his arms out. The cod's just gonna read
Speaker 8: by him like they were ignoring him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I said, what a mistake that that can be
Speaker 2: a big mistake.
Speaker 8: Yeah, And I said, it's a policeman. He's laughing, I mean,
Speaker 8: and they.
Speaker 4: Said, he says, yeah, you know what it is.
Speaker 6: It's all in their heads.
Speaker 8: They're not paying attention what they're doing. And I had
Speaker 8: to say it. I'm a CBL driver and I'm a
Speaker 8: nice driver, but I can't believe what I see. And
Speaker 8: one time I stopped from an elderly person to walk
Speaker 8: across the walk, and you know, the truck seems up high.
Speaker 8: So she was walking around the truck and I said,
Speaker 8: this lady better turn her head to the left. And
Speaker 8: if she did it, I said, something's gonna happen that
Speaker 8: I didn't want want to see in front of my face.
Speaker 8: And this car flew right by me. And thank god
Speaker 8: that the lady saw that.
Speaker 6: She back backed up right away.
Speaker 8: I said, what is going along with people? Off them?
Speaker 8: There's no respect to nothing in the road. And I
Speaker 8: could tell you so much I've seen elderly people even
Speaker 8: I said, I went across the center once I put
Speaker 8: the blank and lights on, the old lady were flying
Speaker 8: right by me. Did not even stop. And that was
Speaker 8: the whole person. I says, Wow, what.
Speaker 2: A bunch of a bunch of problems, A bunch of
Speaker 2: problems here, oh driver, Yeah, okay, how long you've been
Speaker 2: driving truck?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 8: Since I've turned sixteen?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 6: Well had you?
Speaker 2: And hopefully people will be a little more polite to
Speaker 2: the truck drivers because you guys provide all the groceries
Speaker 2: that that we need.
Speaker 8: A grocery and people and people don't realize it though,
Speaker 8: because of the truck coming down the street and they
Speaker 8: they don't realize that that truck can stop like they
Speaker 8: can and a dime. And then you go out on
Speaker 8: an exit.
Speaker 2: I lose you. They you said, you go water on
Speaker 2: an exit? What was it like? He dropped off? We
Speaker 2: lost him all right? I think he made some great points.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Angel excellent points
Speaker 2: six one, seven, two, five, four to ten thirty one
Speaker 2: there and one in six one, seven, nine thirty. I
Speaker 2: got Glenn, Matt and Jack coming up right after this
Speaker 2: quick break on night Side.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray line from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on w b Z.
Speaker 2: The news radio. Let's finish strong, gonna go to Jack
Speaker 2: down of the Cape. Jack on Cape called, Hey Jack,
Speaker 2: where about to the Cape?
Speaker 4: Again?
Speaker 2: Hi? Jack? Where about the Cape?
Speaker 4: If I could ask where I'm in? West West German?
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, go ahead, Uh.
Speaker 4: Enjoy your topics? Has every night as.
Speaker 2: I tang in every name. I appreciate that.
Speaker 4: But I'm going to preface my remarks with a quote,
Speaker 4: there are no problems. There are only unrealized solutions. Okay,
Speaker 4: so well, let's let's go into it. As far as
Speaker 4: the eighteen wheelers that are out there, the twelve, the
Speaker 4: twelve wheelers, the you know, these guys that are out
Speaker 4: there making our lives work. I have said for decades
Speaker 4: there should be uh a national at the government level
Speaker 4: that these trucks should have strobe lights on them to
Speaker 4: start flashing green. And what that means is everybody back up.
Speaker 4: Let this man do what he needs to do with
Speaker 4: men and women. These guys are operating. These guys are operating.
Speaker 4: I couldn't drive an eighteener. I just couldn't handle the
Speaker 4: the the the stress of the us.
Speaker 2: So do you think guy drivers are too aggressive, not
Speaker 2: aggressive enough, or just right.
Speaker 4: They're uninformed. Now, Dan, let's go to the day where
Speaker 4: we are every so every every person that's out there
Speaker 4: driving has a cell phone. And what if we were
Speaker 4: to imply that you have to have a driver's app on. Now,
Speaker 4: the driver's app. As we're driving along, all the cell
Speaker 4: phones would be communicating. So you're sitting in line waiting
Speaker 4: for the light to change. Now the cell phone is
Speaker 4: going to be triggered that, Hey, the light is going
Speaker 4: to change, So you're going to get a ding ding ding,
Speaker 4: get ready to take off, Dan, there are so many
Speaker 4: unrealized solutions. That's my point.
Speaker 2: Well, I think that's a good point. Let's see if
Speaker 2: other people want to react to it. Okay, thanks, Jack,
Speaker 2: appreciate your call. Have a great night. All right, we're
Speaker 2: going to go next to get rid of Jack. Let's
Speaker 2: keep rolling here, going next to Matt and Bright Matt.
Speaker 2: You're next to Night Saga. Right ahead.
Speaker 10: Hey, hey, Dan, how are you going?
Speaker 2: We're doing great?
Speaker 10: Go ahead, all right. So here's how I'll take it.
Speaker 10: I think that every state has issues with driving and
Speaker 10: you know, being distracted. Now, when it comes to some
Speaker 10: of the things I heard before with cell phones and
Speaker 10: stuff like that. Obviously I can't compare it to but
Speaker 10: I am a huge proponent that you don't have a
Speaker 10: drink and drive. You can wait for that text message.
Speaker 10: And although people may do that when you're holding up
Speaker 10: traffic and you're holding up other people, or you're doing
Speaker 10: something that's going against the irregularity of focusing on the road,
Speaker 10: you're putting other people's lives or something of that sort
Speaker 10: on some level of risk. Now shmative troops is be
Speaker 10: considered because of that the worst or most obnoxious. That's
Speaker 10: you know, I guess in the I had to be
Speaker 10: a holder then there might be a high risk of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think met that the survey that News
Speaker 2: we had done was pretty good in terms of valves
Speaker 2: between men and women, young and old. Uh, suburban versus
Speaker 2: urban and rural. It seems to me like they're trying
Speaker 2: their best in this poll. And again, uh, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't necessarily agree with it, but they essentially say that, yeah,
Speaker 2: we got a problem in Massachusetts, Matt, I gotta get
Speaker 2: a couple more roots. I'm gonna let you run.
Speaker 6: Okay, thank you man for no I hear, yeah, I
Speaker 6: hear you.
Speaker 8: I just hear it the last not say quickly.
Speaker 2: I gotta go, Matt, I gotta go, Thank you, Glad, Glen.
Speaker 2: It gets in here. I got less than a minute
Speaker 2: for I hated this, but there's four people behind you,
Speaker 2: and you're gonna got about fifteen seconds. Go ahead.
Speaker 6: Well, I was gonna kill two birds with one stone.
Speaker 6: This is what crime is, my gears, that's one bird.
Speaker 6: Now I speak English, I don't speak car horn ease.
Speaker 6: And people they see that I've got my cane, they
Speaker 6: should know that I'm a blind person. Don't beep their home.
Speaker 2: Let me do this. I sure change here a couple.
Speaker 2: Call back to one and we'll deal with this in
Speaker 2: something like, Okay, I'm flat out of it.
Speaker 6: Can I call it? What time? I mean?
Speaker 2: Rob will tell you. Okay, Glenn, I gotta go. Everybody,
Speaker 2: I've done Rob Brooks, great job, Maritea a great job.
Speaker 2: When midnight comes, folks, it comes. How much time I
Speaker 2: got here? Rob? Oh, I thought you said one minute.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Oh, I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, Let's put Glenn
Speaker 2: back on. Glenn. I thought he said one minute. Go ahead?
Speaker 6: All right? Yeah, I know like I'm trying to cross
Speaker 6: the street and They're like beeping, little beeps, big loud
Speaker 6: horned beaps. Does that mean go? Does that mean move
Speaker 6: to down?
Speaker 4: Jerk?
Speaker 6: Does that mean we hold on? I'm coming. I mean,
Speaker 6: I don't know what car Hornese means. I speak English,
Speaker 6: not car Hornese. And it's like, you know, we'll say
Speaker 6: once in a while to go go go, and I'm like,
Speaker 6: well I'm waiting for help, go go, and I fin
Speaker 6: they don't go the extra mile, and well nobody does
Speaker 6: that anymore. Flap soured on humanity. I mean, it's just
Speaker 6: I don't know if it's just very frustrating. It's not
Speaker 6: like it was fifty years ago, you know, when someone
Speaker 6: would actually get out of a car and say take
Speaker 6: my arm, that could I go to a base?
Speaker 2: Well, I think that it's up to the pedestrians to
Speaker 2: basically guide you a little bit. You're you're a disadvantage
Speaker 2: clearly as you're trying to cross the street, and people
Speaker 2: should be more considerate civil as that. Glad I appreciate
Speaker 2: it and bring in a different perspective as always. Sorry
Speaker 2: I misread Rob. I thought he said one, yeah, gotta go,
Speaker 2: Thank you. All right, I'm gonna try to help other
Speaker 2: people in here, get them in as well. Chris in
Speaker 2: Eastbridge Water, Chris, go right.
Speaker 11: Ahead, Yes, shootings quick Dan first, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas to you, Chris.
Speaker 11: Number two, all zero one on one, quick thing. And
Speaker 11: I see this all the time. People who cut into fuel.
Speaker 11: Funeral processions gotta be drawn and quartered. Did I remember
Speaker 11: where I was in one three years ago? Somebody almost
Speaker 11: took the side off my truck cutting in and then
Speaker 11: beat the laid on their horn at me when we
Speaker 11: were at a stoplight. I just rolled down the window,
Speaker 11: showed them a funeral tag and yelled at them. And
Speaker 11: it was a funeral procession, I said a couple of
Speaker 11: other things.
Speaker 2: It's impossible to me to realize that there are people
Speaker 2: who want to ignore funeral processions.
Speaker 11: And get mad at you because they did something wrong.
Speaker 11: They should put a cop at the back of O's
Speaker 11: and they would probably make a fortune writing tickets.
Speaker 2: I'm with you. I'm with you, good call. Thanks Chris.
Speaker 2: Got to keep going here.
Speaker 4: Okay, thank you much, take care of happy holiday.
Speaker 2: Save you Merry Christmas. Okay. Uh. John is in New Hampshire.
Speaker 2: What do we get left?
Speaker 6: Rob?
Speaker 2: About a minute and a half. Okay, John, want to
Speaker 2: take care of you. Go ahead, John, your next.
Speaker 12: Thanks Dan, Merry Christmas, and I thank you how you
Speaker 12: are on your show with a thank you my dog
Speaker 12: I past eight years ago this past August. But I
Speaker 12: disagree with you. I think you guys are to address
Speaker 12: of down there. I grew up in Massachusetts, and as
Speaker 12: soon as you cross that state line, there's someone within
Speaker 12: a second behind you. Everyone is in a rush, just
Speaker 12: like you're saying, if you don't go through that light
Speaker 12: too fast, someone's gonna beep.
Speaker 2: Saying if you're at the head, John, I'm just saying,
Speaker 2: if you're at the head of the line and a
Speaker 2: truds green, why not just go through the light?
Speaker 6: Mean what?
Speaker 12: Because I'm gonna do the first thing you're taught when
Speaker 12: you when I was send out of the house, stand
Speaker 12: is you look both ways before you cross the road
Speaker 12: because you've already.
Speaker 2: Wants to take How long does it take you to
Speaker 2: look both ways?
Speaker 12: Two seconds? Second? One second?
Speaker 6: Two?
Speaker 12: But I understand with it. And that's the other thing, Massachusetts.
Speaker 12: I don't think you guys are the worst drivers. I've
Speaker 12: driven cross country on I seventy three times, coming back
Speaker 12: I eighty three times. Connecticut is the worst drivers, and
Speaker 12: I'll tell you why. Same thing as Massachusetts, small roads
Speaker 12: to any people.
Speaker 2: All Right, Okay, you got the final word in John,
Speaker 2: but we're done for the night, so I gotta let
Speaker 2: you go. Thanks very much. We'll talk again, okay, Rob,
Speaker 2: thank you, Marita, thank you. Our dogs, all cats, all
Speaker 2: pets go to heaven. And that's why Peal Charlie Rayes,
Speaker 2: who passed fourteen years ago in February, that's why your
Speaker 2: pets are her past. They love you and you love them.
Speaker 2: I do believe you'll see them again, see you again anymore.
Speaker 5: Night.
Speaker 2: Everybody be on Facebook in a moment, Have a great Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Back tomorrow night. Thanks everyone,