June 10, 2026 • 15 mins
Florida is a Top 10 State, for Road Rage? According to Travel and Leisure's new study, it is. Maverick isn't so sure. Lulu thinsk it is and so do several other people. Liustento several people, explain why Florida is bad for Road Rage, here.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A list of the states with the worst road rage.
You want to hear the list? Yeah, I got the
top ten right here. Number one, Louisiana, number two, New Mexico,
number three, Colorado, number four, Arkansas five, Montana six, New
Jersey seven, North Carolina eight, Hawaii nine, Nevada. Florida is
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ten states with the worst road rage. Now you've driven
in a couple of these states. Yeah, so Nevada, New Jersey.
I think you're yep, Okay, would you say they're bad?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I think that road rage since I've really been in
those places, has become a bigger deal.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
You know, hear more about it and see it.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So you've lived in a few more places than me.
Where is the worst road rage in your mind?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well, I'm actually because I've been here now so long,
it is here.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
You So you think Florida does belong in the top ten.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, I'm kind of surprised at the anger you see
on the road.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I mean, look at we all get upset.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I know I do, but I don't want that other
person to know I am. You know, like, I'm not
gonna make a gesture or anything because I don't want
something to escalate.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Well, see, I can see why Hawaii and Nevada are
on the list.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
A lot of tourists, Yeah, don't know where they're going.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
We have them too, drive and slow.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Well, that's the thing we would qualify for that as well.
We also have snowbirds.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
My imagination is that Nevada probably has some snowbirds as well. Probably,
So you got tourists there. New Jersey is kind of crazy.
You got the major metropolitan area people going back and
forth to New York Philly. Yeah, that whole deal. It's
kind of interesting. But you'd think Florida deserves to be
in the top ten in the country for worst road rage.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
You agree with this list?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Now, I haven't been everywhere, but yeah, I think that
it is up there.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I see incidents or people.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Just you know, not major road range of a major incident,
but just people getting aggravated on the road and making
gestures and stuff a few times a week.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Yeah, but making gestures is that road rage?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I mean, I think I think it is okay.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I mean, to determine road wage road wage, do you
think that somebody has con get out of their car
and start a problem?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
No, not necessarily, but I mean making a gesture in
your car.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I mean, I don't consider honking the horn a road rage.
But if somebody pulls up next to you or something,
or puts their hand out the window and gives you
a little.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
What if on the horn? Is that road rage?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
It could be depending on what the offense was of
the other person.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Oh, so that determines whether it gets road rage.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Cut them off, then hit it, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
But if it's just like go the light changed, you
could give a beep, a little beep to go?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
You who a.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Little beep doesn't do anything? It does, No, it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Tap does because it makes somebody look. But you know
what I noticed when you do that to somebody, they
take off like I see it.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I got it. Yes, I'm like, well, where were you before?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Okay, So here's the thing. Do you think Florida is
a top ten state for road rage? This new list
has us at number ten. Lulu agrees, I'd love to
talk with you. I'm not so sure that we need
to be in the top ten. Maybe I'm being a
little too soft here on this. Now you had something
you want to share on this, sir?
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Hey man, how are you today?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Good man?
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Good well? Never thinking about Florida it's certainly fine, which
come on right now, and I hate it.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
You know, it's interesting if you go to the other
side of the state. Ninety five it's crazy, but it
just seems like things move quicker on ninety five, Like
when there's an accident over there, it doesn't become a
standstill exactly.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
I just got on at University by it's a mall
here and it's a nightmare already in the morning.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
That could happen anywhere, but no, it doesn't happen anywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
It does.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
It happens every day here.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
It's an excellent point.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I mean, if you ever go to the Key, if
you ever go to South Florida, yeah, ninety five, the Turnpike,
all of that, it's nut and there's more lanes.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, but it moves.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Unless there's major construction. It doesn't come to a standstill
like those people are going literally ninety five on ninety five.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
You've driven it, right, Yeah, it's been.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
A while, but yeah, oh yeah, seventy five and ninety five,
even though they're the same, like major interstates coming down
to each side of the.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
State, they're nowhere near the same to drive.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I mean, it is pretty interesting when you think about
it interesting.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Seventy five here though, I just it's hard. You can't
count on it moving. You just can't count on it.
You get on and go hope for the best.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Now, the reason why I think could one of the
reasons we be on this list.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
When I was thinking about the keys. You got US one.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
If you get stuck behind somebody on US one going
to the keys, But does everybody drive to the keys?
And then you got ninety five? Seventy five? I four
is your personal hell?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Right?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yes, I'm on it like twice a year, and I
dreaded each time. Oh, just just let me get out
of here.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
We did a stretch where we had a couple of
conferences and we had to go multiple time.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I remember that a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I do.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I got Oh my god, I was in traffic for
hours due to an accident.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Hours?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
How did I miss that? Did I?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
We left a little before me?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Oh and you guys, I got it? Yep.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, not my favorite road.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Do you think Florida is a top ten state for
road rage in the entire country.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I'm a little surprised we're top.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Ten in the entire country for road rage you are,
I am a little bit. When you think about New York, LA, Chicago, Atlanta,
none of those states are above Florida.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
That's a little bizarre to me.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
California, we're above all them.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
It's possible.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Do you drive it in Atlanta?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Anybody say anything about that.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I'm surprised. It's gotta be it's below us. Yeah, that's
what's surprising. Now, what did you want to say, sir?
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Okay, I think I've got this figured out as far
as traffic and road range goes. I am a person
who drives all day long, and I believe it is
the combination of seniors, adolescent drivers, and visitors.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
You mean Florida has become that.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Yes, I drive locally for a gradual company. I drive
all day long, six days a week, and I really
believe it's adolescent drivers, senior drivers, and visitors to the
state of Florida that makes for road rage. You get
my experience it on an hourly basis.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I feel like, and I don't know if it's visitors,
seniors and adolescents combined or just visitors, but I do
feel like in the last year or so, there are
more confused or lost drivers than ever before in Florida.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Do you know what I mean, Lulu?
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Oh yeah, I agree with that because I think that
with all the new roads that we that are being built,
the GPS gets confused and that confuses drivers.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
You may have a point there that may be what
it is, because I can't remember a time where there
just seems to be and it doesn't matter. I'm talking
anywhere from like Venice and Northport to Palmetto and Parish.
No matter where you are in our two county area,
there seems to be more confused drivers.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
Yes, I agree. I use GPS all the time and
it leads me to the wrong places. And I can
tell you senior drivers want to drive slow, adolescent drivers
want to drive past, and visitors don't know where they're going.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
So that combination.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
You just described a big mess.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
But I think relatively accurately. I don't think you can
dispute that.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
No.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I mean, I think he's got a pretty good handle.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
That's what you'll see.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
What do you think? Are we one of the worst
ten states for road rage? You had a thought on this, ma'am?
Is that right?
Speaker 9 (08:08):
H I have something to say about the road rage, please,
So I'm a transplit from New Jersey, thirty.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Minutes outside of New York City.
Speaker 9 (08:17):
I've been down here for about a year now, my
dad has been here for ten, and even visiting, I've
seen so many people on the phone down here more
often than I have up there.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
And the bike laws having a bike.
Speaker 9 (08:31):
Lane that I'm not used to up north.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
So I think that also adds to people's road rage.
And all of the electric bikes and scooters.
Speaker 9 (08:41):
They aren't following the traffic laws that cars do, so
it's more common down here to have them on the road,
So that adds.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
To our road rage.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
So New Jersey is one of the states with worse
road rage than Florida.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
But I will say Lulu shares and I don't.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Know if it's you, but with other people, Lulu's not
a fan, and so much so that she asked the
chief of police when he was in here from Sarasota.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
About bikes on the road.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yes, Lulu does not like bikes sharing lanes if there
isn't a bike lane, which they're allowed to do. So
we all have to be understanding that we're sharing the
road here.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
But the problem with the bikes is they just take
over the road. And you know they're not going you
know they can only go so fast, and they act like,
get out of my way.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Correct, I'm supposed to be able to go around them.
Speaker 9 (09:29):
They're only doing fifteen. They had headphones and a dam
No I was behind them. They were in the middle
of the road.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
So let me say this, you should not be wearing
headphones or earbuds if you're on a bike because you
need to be able to hear what's going on emergency
vehicles and such. However, if there isn't a bike lane,
they can be in the road.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I think the problem is when you're riding on the
side there sometimes people aren't paying attention because they don't
see you, and you can be more likely to be hit.
That's what I've talked to some in law enforcement. So
I think that's why a lot of bikeless like to
be in the center because they're seeing.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
More I've seen more road range from cyclists, like flipping
people off and everything.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Now I'm curious about this.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
You really think there's more road rage in Florida than
New Jersey.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Interesting, I agree with.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
The callers I just called in.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
And where it's the elderly, the snowbird.
Speaker 9 (10:20):
Traffic, the younger kids.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
There's more people.
Speaker 9 (10:24):
On their phones down here causing accident than I've saw
in New Jersey.
Speaker 8 (10:29):
I did not see that many people on their phone.
Speaker 9 (10:32):
My whole entire thirty years of living in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yeah, I just feel like people on their phones is
something you see everywhere, though.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
I mean, I get what you're saying, you.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Do, but not as much.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Wow, that's saying something.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
That's interesting, very interesting.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah, thank you for sharing.
Speaker 9 (10:48):
Yeah, I hope you guys have a great day, and
I hope everybody tries to keep coming out there.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Oh yeah, let's keep the road rage down and thank
you for listening.
Speaker 9 (10:56):
Thank you, have a great day guy, you too.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
So, if she's right, there's more people on their phone
down here, is a lot of that because people don't
know where they're going, because you have transplants that are new,
or people on vacation.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I mean, I'm sure it contributes.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Okay, people are just they're on the phone driving down
on their way to the beach.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
On says to Key. They're just going down the two
lane road in traffic, and.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah, but they're looking for places to park or eat
and stuff. That's what I'm saying. Travelers, people that are
not familiar with the area.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, I guess you got to give that benefit of
the doubt.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Well, you sound like, just in this conversation, you.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Have road rage because it aggravates me to see so
many people on they have one hand on the steering wheel.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
On the other hand, they're holding their phone up.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
So you are part of the reason we're in the
top ten. All right, what do you say?
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Hello, Good morning, Maverick.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I feel like it's New York and not Florida, but
Florida's up there.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
So you've been in New York, you've been in Florida.
You think we're top ten for road rage here?
Speaker 5 (11:54):
I feel like we might be.
Speaker 9 (11:57):
I'm working on it right now.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
So what happens in Florida thinks we might be in there.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Seventy five simple every day.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
The thing about forty one is it's not much better
than seventy five. It's just you have options, you're not stuck.
But I'm amazed at what I see on forty one.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yeah, forty one is crazy every day.
Speaker 9 (12:19):
Good morning, Lulu.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I agree.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
I agree with that, as though, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah, Hi, it's like either people are going fifteen miles
per hour. You know, there's forty five in a lot
of areas on forty one. Then it goes down to
forty than thirty five, but forty five for a good stretch,
and I don't think people realize that.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Can you explain to me why people drive so far
under the speed limit? I was on was it Whitfield
or somewhere like that the other day? And the speed
limit there is like forty in the stretch that I
was on, and they're driving twenty five?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (12:49):
And it happens on forty one to your point where
it's forty miles an hour, they're driving twenty or twenty five?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Are they lost? Are they scared?
Speaker 5 (12:57):
What is?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
What do you think's going on?
Speaker 9 (13:00):
It could be distracted?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I'm really not sure.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
It's kind of like a guessing game as you're passing them.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Doesn't that happen everywhere fild people driving too slow and stuff?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Or is it more here in Florida?
Speaker 5 (13:12):
So like everybody's cutting everybody off on seventy five. They're
in a big hurry to go nowhere.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, what is that? I don't know. I really don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
You know though, even on forty one though.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I was driving the other day and I got around
somebody that was I don't know if they were lost
or confused or what was going on.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
And they weren't driving crazy under the speed of it,
but like five hundreds.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
So I'm like, look, I'm going by you and they're
in the middle lane.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
So I was in the left lane. There's three lanes
on forty one. Right then I look behind me.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
This person made a right hand turn off of forty
one from the center lane.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Oh yes, what is that like?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
They get away with it, some other innocent person.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Who they're just so lucky.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Nobody was coming up that right lane exactly.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Oh, they got their own rules.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Thank you for calling this morning.
Speaker 9 (14:06):
Oh well, hey, it's always great to talk to you guys.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Hey, you too.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Be safe on the roads now, ma'am. You think we are.
But it's only during some of the year, is that right?
Speaker 9 (14:17):
Yeah. The only thing that sucks is living in Florida
is the traffic in the winter time. All the orders
come down and it's just manhouse down.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
On the road.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
It isn't that bad up north, Lulu, really, I mean
they don't have the.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Huge change in traffic.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Ball, I mean, we have.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
That is a major thing, but.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
There are some cities that just have it all the time.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Big in New York, Chicago, LA.
Speaker 9 (14:43):
We don't have the snow and people that do with
that stuff up there, but because they come down here
and they act, it's still got snow on the ground
because everybody gets road raged in the wintertime, whether we
have snow down here or not. But yeah, that's the traffic.
The only thing that's sucked about living in Florida is
the traffic.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
And it's funny, says she doesn't there's nothing she doesn't
like about Florida, but she has road rage.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Ma'am, I'm managing. I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
The season thing anymore, quite honestly, because we're supposedly not
in season now.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Yeah, you're making a face. It's so traffic, and that's
what I mean.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
It's I think I think the whole season thing ended
with COVID with so many people moving here and the
house price is shot up. Working from home, like I
don't know, like yes, from Thanksgiving till maybe spring break,
it might be a little bit worse, especially if you're
trying to go to the beach or something. But I
mean regular commuting do people think we have a season
(15:39):
really anymore when.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
It doesn't feel like it.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah, certain times a day, certain locations you're going. If
you're looking for a parking spot, it's yes to obviously,
oh yeah, or on Anna Maria, you got to go
over one of the bridges to get there. Yes, but
I don't know. Is that why we are in the
top ten on road?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Maybe, but I'm not checked by it at all.
A list of the states with the worst road rage.
You want to hear the list? Yeah, I got the
top ten right here. Number one, Louisiana, number two, New Mexico,
number three, Colorado, number four, Arkansas five, Montana six, New
Jersey seven, North Carolina eight, Hawaii nine, Nevada. Florida is
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ten states with the worst road rage. Now you've driven
in a couple of these states. Yeah, so Nevada, New Jersey.
I think you're yep, Okay, would you say they're bad?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I think that road rage since I've really been in
those places, has become a bigger deal.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
You know, hear more about it and see it.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So you've lived in a few more places than me.
Where is the worst road rage in your mind?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well, I'm actually because I've been here now so long,
it is here.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
You So you think Florida does belong in the top ten.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, I'm kind of surprised at the anger you see
on the road.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I mean, look at we all get upset.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I know I do, but I don't want that other
person to know I am. You know, like, I'm not
gonna make a gesture or anything because I don't want
something to escalate.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Well, see, I can see why Hawaii and Nevada are
on the list.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
A lot of tourists, Yeah, don't know where they're going.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
We have them too, drive and slow.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Well, that's the thing we would qualify for that as well.
We also have snowbirds.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Yea.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
My imagination is that Nevada probably has some snowbirds as well. Probably,
So you got tourists there. New Jersey is kind of crazy.
You got the major metropolitan area people going back and
forth to New York Philly. Yeah, that whole deal. It's
kind of interesting. But you'd think Florida deserves to be
in the top ten in the country for worst road rage.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
You agree with this list?
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Now, I haven't been everywhere, but yeah, I think that
it is up there.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I see incidents or people.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Just you know, not major road range of a major incident,
but just people getting aggravated on the road and making
gestures and stuff a few times a week.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Yeah, but making gestures is that road rage?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I mean, I think I think it is okay.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I mean, to determine road wage road wage, do you
think that somebody has con get out of their car
and start a problem?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
No, not necessarily, but I mean making a gesture in
your car.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I mean, I don't consider honking the horn a road rage.
But if somebody pulls up next to you or something,
or puts their hand out the window and gives you
a little.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
What if on the horn? Is that road rage?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
It could be depending on what the offense was of
the other person.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Oh, so that determines whether it gets road rage.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Cut them off, then hit it, you know.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
But if it's just like go the light changed, you
could give a beep, a little beep to go?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
You who a.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Little beep doesn't do anything? It does, No, it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Tap does because it makes somebody look. But you know
what I noticed when you do that to somebody, they
take off like I see it.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I got it. Yes, I'm like, well, where were you before?
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Okay, So here's the thing. Do you think Florida is
a top ten state for road rage? This new list
has us at number ten. Lulu agrees, I'd love to
talk with you. I'm not so sure that we need
to be in the top ten. Maybe I'm being a
little too soft here on this. Now you had something
you want to share on this, sir?
Speaker 5 (03:16):
Hey man, how are you today?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Good man?
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Good well? Never thinking about Florida it's certainly fine, which
come on right now, and I hate it.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
You know, it's interesting if you go to the other
side of the state. Ninety five it's crazy, but it
just seems like things move quicker on ninety five, Like
when there's an accident over there, it doesn't become a
standstill exactly.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
I just got on at University by it's a mall
here and it's a nightmare already in the morning.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
That could happen anywhere, but no, it doesn't happen anywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
It does.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
It happens every day here.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
It's an excellent point.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I mean, if you ever go to the Key, if
you ever go to South Florida, yeah, ninety five, the Turnpike,
all of that, it's nut and there's more lanes.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, but it moves.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Unless there's major construction. It doesn't come to a standstill
like those people are going literally ninety five on ninety five.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
You've driven it, right, Yeah, it's been.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
A while, but yeah, oh yeah, seventy five and ninety five,
even though they're the same, like major interstates coming down
to each side of the.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
State, they're nowhere near the same to drive.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I mean, it is pretty interesting when you think about
it interesting.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Seventy five here though, I just it's hard. You can't
count on it moving. You just can't count on it.
You get on and go hope for the best.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Now, the reason why I think could one of the
reasons we be on this list.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
When I was thinking about the keys. You got US one.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
If you get stuck behind somebody on US one going
to the keys, But does everybody drive to the keys?
And then you got ninety five? Seventy five? I four
is your personal hell?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Right?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yes, I'm on it like twice a year, and I
dreaded each time. Oh, just just let me get out
of here.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
We did a stretch where we had a couple of
conferences and we had to go multiple time.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
I remember that a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I do.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I got Oh my god, I was in traffic for
hours due to an accident.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Hours?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
How did I miss that? Did I?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
We left a little before me?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Oh and you guys, I got it? Yep.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, not my favorite road.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Do you think Florida is a top ten state for
road rage in the entire country.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I'm a little surprised we're top.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Ten in the entire country for road rage you are,
I am a little bit. When you think about New York, LA, Chicago, Atlanta,
none of those states are above Florida.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
That's a little bizarre to me.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
California, we're above all them.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
It's possible.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Do you drive it in Atlanta?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Anybody say anything about that.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I'm surprised. It's gotta be it's below us. Yeah, that's
what's surprising. Now, what did you want to say, sir?
Speaker 7 (06:12):
Okay, I think I've got this figured out as far
as traffic and road range goes. I am a person
who drives all day long, and I believe it is
the combination of seniors, adolescent drivers, and visitors.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
You mean Florida has become that.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
Yes, I drive locally for a gradual company. I drive
all day long, six days a week, and I really
believe it's adolescent drivers, senior drivers, and visitors to the
state of Florida that makes for road rage. You get
my experience it on an hourly basis.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I feel like, and I don't know if it's visitors,
seniors and adolescents combined or just visitors, but I do
feel like in the last year or so, there are
more confused or lost drivers than ever before in Florida.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Do you know what I mean, Lulu?
Speaker 8 (07:03):
Oh yeah, I agree with that because I think that
with all the new roads that we that are being built,
the GPS gets confused and that confuses drivers.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
You may have a point there that may be what
it is, because I can't remember a time where there
just seems to be and it doesn't matter. I'm talking
anywhere from like Venice and Northport to Palmetto and Parish.
No matter where you are in our two county area,
there seems to be more confused drivers.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
Yes, I agree. I use GPS all the time and
it leads me to the wrong places. And I can
tell you senior drivers want to drive slow, adolescent drivers
want to drive past, and visitors don't know where they're going.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
So that combination.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
You just described a big mess.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
But I think relatively accurately. I don't think you can
dispute that.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
No.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I mean, I think he's got a pretty good handle.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
That's what you'll see.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
What do you think? Are we one of the worst
ten states for road rage? You had a thought on this, ma'am?
Is that right?
Speaker 9 (08:08):
H I have something to say about the road rage, please,
So I'm a transplit from New Jersey, thirty.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Minutes outside of New York City.
Speaker 9 (08:17):
I've been down here for about a year now, my
dad has been here for ten, and even visiting, I've
seen so many people on the phone down here more
often than I have up there.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
And the bike laws having a bike.
Speaker 9 (08:31):
Lane that I'm not used to up north.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
So I think that also adds to people's road rage.
And all of the electric bikes and scooters.
Speaker 9 (08:41):
They aren't following the traffic laws that cars do, so
it's more common down here to have them on the road,
So that adds.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
To our road rage.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
So New Jersey is one of the states with worse
road rage than Florida.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
But I will say Lulu shares and I don't.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Know if it's you, but with other people, Lulu's not
a fan, and so much so that she asked the
chief of police when he was in here from Sarasota.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
About bikes on the road.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yes, Lulu does not like bikes sharing lanes if there
isn't a bike lane, which they're allowed to do. So
we all have to be understanding that we're sharing the
road here.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
But the problem with the bikes is they just take
over the road. And you know they're not going you
know they can only go so fast, and they act like,
get out of my way.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Correct, I'm supposed to be able to go around them.
Speaker 9 (09:29):
They're only doing fifteen. They had headphones and a dam
No I was behind them. They were in the middle
of the road.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
So let me say this, you should not be wearing
headphones or earbuds if you're on a bike because you
need to be able to hear what's going on emergency
vehicles and such. However, if there isn't a bike lane,
they can be in the road.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
I think the problem is when you're riding on the
side there sometimes people aren't paying attention because they don't
see you, and you can be more likely to be hit.
That's what I've talked to some in law enforcement. So
I think that's why a lot of bikeless like to
be in the center because they're seeing.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
More I've seen more road range from cyclists, like flipping
people off and everything.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Now I'm curious about this.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
You really think there's more road rage in Florida than
New Jersey.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Interesting, I agree with.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
The callers I just called in.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
And where it's the elderly, the snowbird.
Speaker 9 (10:20):
Traffic, the younger kids.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
There's more people.
Speaker 9 (10:24):
On their phones down here causing accident than I've saw
in New Jersey.
Speaker 8 (10:29):
I did not see that many people on their phone.
Speaker 9 (10:32):
My whole entire thirty years of living in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yeah, I just feel like people on their phones is
something you see everywhere, though.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
I mean, I get what you're saying, you.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
Do, but not as much.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Wow, that's saying something.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
That's interesting, very interesting.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah, thank you for sharing.
Speaker 9 (10:48):
Yeah, I hope you guys have a great day, and
I hope everybody tries to keep coming out there.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Oh yeah, let's keep the road rage down and thank
you for listening.
Speaker 9 (10:56):
Thank you, have a great day guy, you too.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
So, if she's right, there's more people on their phone
down here, is a lot of that because people don't
know where they're going, because you have transplants that are new,
or people on vacation.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
I mean, I'm sure it contributes.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Okay, people are just they're on the phone driving down
on their way to the beach.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
On says to Key. They're just going down the two
lane road in traffic, and.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Yeah, but they're looking for places to park or eat
and stuff. That's what I'm saying. Travelers, people that are
not familiar with the area.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, I guess you got to give that benefit of
the doubt.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Well, you sound like, just in this conversation, you.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Have road rage because it aggravates me to see so
many people on they have one hand on the steering wheel.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
On the other hand, they're holding their phone up.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
So you are part of the reason we're in the
top ten. All right, what do you say?
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Hello, Good morning, Maverick.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I feel like it's New York and not Florida, but
Florida's up there.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
So you've been in New York, you've been in Florida.
You think we're top ten for road rage here?
Speaker 5 (11:54):
I feel like we might be.
Speaker 9 (11:57):
I'm working on it right now.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
So what happens in Florida thinks we might be in there.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Seventy five simple every day.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
The thing about forty one is it's not much better
than seventy five. It's just you have options, you're not stuck.
But I'm amazed at what I see on forty one.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yeah, forty one is crazy every day.
Speaker 9 (12:19):
Good morning, Lulu.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I agree.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
I agree with that, as though, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah, Hi, it's like either people are going fifteen miles
per hour. You know, there's forty five in a lot
of areas on forty one. Then it goes down to
forty than thirty five, but forty five for a good stretch,
and I don't think people realize that.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Can you explain to me why people drive so far
under the speed limit? I was on was it Whitfield
or somewhere like that the other day? And the speed
limit there is like forty in the stretch that I
was on, and they're driving twenty five?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (12:49):
And it happens on forty one to your point where
it's forty miles an hour, they're driving twenty or twenty five?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Are they lost? Are they scared?
Speaker 5 (12:57):
What is?
Speaker 4 (12:58):
What do you think's going on?
Speaker 9 (13:00):
It could be distracted?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
I'm really not sure.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
It's kind of like a guessing game as you're passing them.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Doesn't that happen everywhere fild people driving too slow and stuff?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Or is it more here in Florida?
Speaker 5 (13:12):
So like everybody's cutting everybody off on seventy five. They're
in a big hurry to go nowhere.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Yeah, what is that? I don't know. I really don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
You know though, even on forty one though.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I was driving the other day and I got around
somebody that was I don't know if they were lost
or confused or what was going on.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
And they weren't driving crazy under the speed of it,
but like five hundreds.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
So I'm like, look, I'm going by you and they're
in the middle lane.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
So I was in the left lane. There's three lanes
on forty one. Right then I look behind me.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
This person made a right hand turn off of forty
one from the center lane.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Oh yes, what is that like?
Speaker 2 (13:53):
They get away with it, some other innocent person.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Who they're just so lucky.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Nobody was coming up that right lane exactly.
Speaker 9 (14:00):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Oh, they got their own rules.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Thank you for calling this morning.
Speaker 9 (14:06):
Oh well, hey, it's always great to talk to you guys.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Hey, you too.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Be safe on the roads now, ma'am. You think we are.
But it's only during some of the year, is that right?
Speaker 9 (14:17):
Yeah. The only thing that sucks is living in Florida
is the traffic in the winter time. All the orders
come down and it's just manhouse down.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
On the road.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
It isn't that bad up north, Lulu, really, I mean
they don't have the.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Huge change in traffic.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Ball, I mean, we have.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
That is a major thing, but.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
There are some cities that just have it all the time.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Big in New York, Chicago, LA.
Speaker 9 (14:43):
We don't have the snow and people that do with
that stuff up there, but because they come down here
and they act, it's still got snow on the ground
because everybody gets road raged in the wintertime, whether we
have snow down here or not. But yeah, that's the traffic.
The only thing that's sucked about living in Florida is
the traffic.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
And it's funny, says she doesn't there's nothing she doesn't
like about Florida, but she has road rage.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Ma'am, I'm managing. I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
The season thing anymore, quite honestly, because we're supposedly not
in season now.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Yeah, you're making a face. It's so traffic, and that's
what I mean.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
It's I think I think the whole season thing ended
with COVID with so many people moving here and the
house price is shot up. Working from home, like I
don't know, like yes, from Thanksgiving till maybe spring break,
it might be a little bit worse, especially if you're
trying to go to the beach or something. But I
mean regular commuting do people think we have a season
(15:39):
really anymore when.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
It doesn't feel like it.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah, certain times a day, certain locations you're going. If
you're looking for a parking spot, it's yes to obviously,
oh yeah, or on Anna Maria, you got to go
over one of the bridges to get there. Yes, but
I don't know. Is that why we are in the
top ten on road?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Maybe, but I'm not checked by it at all.
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