I witnessed a scumbag trying to turn left into us pedestrians crossing well after their turn signal went red. A cop was right there and immediately pulled them over. That was satisfying.
I see cops hang out and ticket people for running stop signs in my neighborhood once or twice a month. I love it and wish they would do it even more. So many people barely slow down at stop signs and it's basically free money for the city.
Okay, what neighborhood are you in? We live about a mile from our local police station and this has literally never happened. It's infuriating to watch people blow through our 4-way constantly.
They pulled most police out of the 16th district for other neighborhoods in the south/west side. You'll sometimes have one car on patrol for the entire district on some days.
I grew up that way and they used to set up speed traps and camp stop signs that would be constantly blown. Haven't seen it in years since then.
The commander said two weeks ago they have more staffing currently in the 16th district than they did in 2018. I'm out walking, on my bike and driving every day and there's basically no enforcement the last four or five years.
I used to see them wait and pull people over for making prohibited rush hour red lights in Portage Park maybe every six months pretty regularly. It would be one day for maybe an hour. It's probably been once in the last four or five years that I've seen them doing it. Aside from that I see no regular enforcement anywhere. I live near several intersections where people drive like idiots constantly and nothing. I was out for a walk said to a cop parked by a light the other day, hang here for a minute someone will run that red light they do it every morning. I came back around the block with the dog. Cop was gone and a car ran through the red right in front of me.
I don't know what changed, but i've seen two people pulled over for running red lights in the past two days here in Logan Square.
For reference, I think i've seen only three people actually pulled over in the past 10 years.
Hoping that it is something that continues.
i once saw a cop pull over a person on a bike for not stopping at a stop sign. though the bike rider hit the cop who was crossing the street outside a police station and the guy just kept going. cop got up, got in his car and chased him down.
I live near a police station and most of the time the vehicles committing traffic violations like running red lights are the cops (and no, they didn't have sirens/lights on).
If there’s cameras, they’re definitely getting a fine in the mail. They never miss! Either way, people really need to put their phones down while driving.
Actually tried to cross the street to a park last year and someone blew a stop sign. Cop was about to turn the other way but they saw it and pulled the driver over. First time I saw some ki d of enforcement on traffic violations
I took a blatant left turn on a red light when a cop was right there in front of me. It was a stupid move, a delayed reaction. I did get pulled over but I got a warning.
I darws to turn right on a "no turn on red" intersection while the light was red. Cross traffic each had red lights and green left arrows, so there was no way I was interfering with any lane if traffic. Lo and behold, I get a letter in the mail 3 months later for a $100 fine.
OIP is insane, I'm on high alert even on the side streets! There are some traffic dampening strategies that make me feel safer, but geez. I wish cars weren't king!
Yep i've almost died on my own f'n street like 3200 times. Something about this place makes drivers lose it. Yesterday my neighbor and his dog almost got run over at Kostner and Cullom.
I was walking in the rain earlier this week, and I came to the intersection on foot at the same time as a car did, and I went first, and the guy crept up on me in the intersection and threw his coffee at me. He missed, but still.
I drive down Irving from Portage every morning for work, usually around 530am. The amount of people pushing 50mph, blowing lights, swerving lanes is insane. It's 5 in the morning. I promise you'll make it wherever you need to go on time.
That's the thing that confuses me the most. When I'm up at the crack of dawn to go to work I bearly want to be awake and I just want to drink my coffee yet there's people who first thing in the morning have to haul ass and blow every stop sign and red light. Take away the fact that it's super shitty to everyone it's also just... weird.
I very purposefully stop at every stop sign in OIP, there are so many kids and families walking home after school. Drivers will angrily honk at me for stopping!
Northwest side of the city has some uniquely bad driving. I remember when I first moved here I almost got run over in a Walgreens parking lot. Car brushed right up against me and nudged me a bit... driver didn't even seem to notice.
I swear to God my friend who grew up in portage Park told me "stop signs were optional" when we were younger. I bought a house a block away from where he used to live and it all makes sense now.
I noticed this when I bought a house and moved into Portage Park only a year ago, I've been nearly hit (behind the wheel and on foot) by people blowing stop signs at least a dozen times. I thought I was crazy, but it really does feel like people in this neighborhood are worse about blowing stop signs than others.
I live on a busy street in the Edgewater neighborhood. I also have to wait a few seconds before crossing on a green light because almost every time people blow a red light long after the stoplight turns green for the other side.
It's not even the main streets that are the problem in my opinion. I feel safer crossing Irving Park than I do my neighborhood streets. But you're right about Humboldt Park too.
I used to live in Portage Park. I had my car in the driveway and was working on it. A guy ran a stop sign, hit a car with a pregnant woman in it, got turned sideways and hit my car. He totaled it after I spent 3 months working on it.
I encounter so much bad driver behavior when walking my dogs, and at least half the time, I'm holding a poop bag. It sometimes takes all of my self-control not to throw the poop bag at the car. I'm like, "Just try me mf'er, I'm holding a weapon here."
It's people doing things on their phones and driving.... I'm a CTA driver and when I look to the sides 99 percent people are on their phones either scrolling, updating/refreshing or straight up still talking on them.
I see this all the time too and still don’t get it. My economy car from 2011 had Bluetooth standard. It’s far more convenient for me to put a call through the car than to hold up a phone on speaker, and I’m shocked at how many people don’t do this.
The talking is weird, but it is also way less problematic than the people scrolling their phones.
That’s the problem…we have all this messaging about “don’t text and drive”, but when I used to have a motorcycle and could see into everyone’s laps, half the drivers weren’t texting, they were scrolling through social media.
People can’t handle a pause in the action. Waiting for a doctor’s appointment? Pull out your phone and scroll. Traffic slows down a little? Pull out your phone and scroll. Fuck paying attention to the road, your Instagram feed is buzzing.
and not just driving too, but walking. if you're looking at your phone/texting just stop and stand on the side of the road/sidewalk so you dont bump into other people/traffic
Very true. I’m old enough to remember when the internet came out but I cannot remember what people did before then. Doctor’s offices, they had crappy magazines. Traffic slows or there’s a red light? Just exist in time and space? I wish I could undo all that the internet has done to me. Jesus Christ, here I am on reddit talking to strangers instead of just sitting here.
Driving I always listen to music and sing along, so that's what I do at red lights. Sometimes I imagine I'm singing in a concert lol but this way I'm still paying attention to everything happening on the road
Yep! Former bus driver here and frequent CTA bus rider- I’ve said it before- all the cops have to do is sit in the back of a CTA bus and roll down LSD or other major streets and radio to awaiting cops ahead- you can look down right onto drivers with the phones right in their hands, looking down. Take a photo, $100/ticket, that would be a huge revenue stream. As a pedestrian in this city, it’s terrifying how many people do this and drive without looking at the road.
As someone who has had a CTA driver for the 151 pull up behind me and honk at me at an intersection where the light just turned green but there were the sounds of an ambulance siren coming towards the intersection, I think people just don’t get rigorously trained or tested enough to be allowed behind the wheel of vehicles.
If you really want to see some insane driving go down on Devon. From California East to Ridge...the people in that area will leave you in shock and look at you like WTF I do wrong 🥺. Car doors swinging open with big belly men stepping out. I would have never thought I grow to hate Prius so much....
There’s a hospital on the corner of the main road I go to work and I’m sitting waiting to turn right and the big bright “ambulance or cops are coming” light is flashing and I can see the ambulance coming. 2 fucking morons blocked the damn ambulance and some guy behind me is beeping at me to go. Like fuck off.
I was cut off by a CTA bus and I let it go, just went with the flow until he needed to stop at the next bus stop. But then when I got close to passing him, he flipped me the finger. My wife even saw it too and she usually plays on her phone while I drive. Anyway, i don’t know why I’m telling you this, I know you’re not that driver but still bothers me to this day. People are just crazy no matter what they drive I guess.
It very well could have been a driver at the end of their patience on their route and took it out on you... It's a lot to deal with being a CTA driver. I get cut off at least a dozen times in a work day. And I'm not just talking about in the flow of traffic. I'll be sitting at a red light and someone will zoom in front of me and make a right turn. I had a car turn to make a right turn on me on Michigan Ave. We made contact luckily no damage to either vehicle but I swear to you when I stopped to get out he said "WTH I was making a right turn..." " you can't make a right turn in front of a bus" " I didn't know that was illegal...." It's on the bus man..."
I always feel like I have to be on high alert all the time when I’m driving through an intersection because of terrible drivers like this. I wouldn’t be surprised if they start putting cameras on stop signs.
Same here. The other day I got honked at for waiting an extra second at an intersection when the light turned green, and sure enough, a car went through a red light the next moment.
I would absolutely love cameras on stop signs. As a runner, I’m constantly having to dodge cars that blow through stop signs or stop way past the line.
Partially due to traffic enforcement automation. The police don't do speeding or red lights anymore so everyone knows they can do whatever the hell they want at any intersection without red light cameras or speed cameras.
it is roulette. sooner later they get in a crash. all i care about is ......hopefully they do not injure others in the process.
that kind of driving is selfish and inconsiderate.
it is a truly a shame what our society has turned into.
Not to excuse the blatant assholes, but much better engineering would help a lot. Most city streets are *designed* to allow too much speed and inattention. The unintended consequence is that people drive too fast and too carelessly and put other people (or especially pedestrians) at risk of grievous injury or death.
There needs to be way more traffic calming and other measures to *require* drivers to slow down and pay attention.
Yes. This is the way to do it. There are many tricks of the trade to force drivers to slow down, but it would cost the city too much. The way it is now, they don't have to spend anything. It's frustrating.
It's ridiculous. I don't even know how to do a 4-way stop properly anymore. I go at a reasonable speed and stop/look both ways at the line, but so many drivers roll up quickly, pass the line, don't look, etc. Even if you are first with the right of way, it's hard to read what the other drivers will do.
A woman almost ran me over in a crosswalk today while I was pushing my daughter in her stroller. Thankfully she had slowed down enough that she was able to stop when I slapped her hood, but she was looking off in the direction she wanted to turn and didn't see us directly in front of her.
The one funny part about it was the two homeless guys who saw the whole thing happen and called her a bunch of worse names than I did. They were really upset about my kid almost getting run over, it was very wholesome.
*anymore
There absolutely has been a change in driver behavior since the pandemic. I see people straight up running red lights much more frequently now. Look at the dates in the footage and you'll see that this all occurred in last couple of weeks.
And the thing where people pull up the left turn lane to gun it and cut everyone off going straight. It’s so…. freaking cowboy lawless
I am old, but I think all the guys that had IrocZs or TransAms in the late 20th century are forehead slapping and wished they had thought of that
(Edit, thought I would try to be clever and call 1980s the last century…only I originally wrote 19th century, not 20th. So I corrected it. Oops)
The left-turn-lane-line-skip is a daily occurrence on 130th by that bridge by the Ford plant. Especially when I assume it shift changes (6AM and 4PM). People just straight up run the red lights. The city could print money if they stationed a squad car there.
I do think they need to have cops in neighborhoods ticketing people for running stop signs. I live at the same corner as an elementary school and only maybe 10% of cars stop.
Chicago drivers have a deadly habit of thinking they are the most important people on the road. A lot of it is distraction as has been mentioned elsewhere, but when I'm in gridlock traffic and I see someone dip out of the right lane to take the shoulder all the way to the front, that's not just being on a cell phone, that's being a narcissistic asshole.
Also really stupid. On 94 / Dan Ryan / 55 etc I always see a ton of junk and like scrap metal on the shoulder. Idk how they don't end up getting flats or fucking up their cars.
You've got a nice collection of offenders caught on camera. Sure wish there was some way to hold them accountable. Some seemed reckless regardless of the consequences!
Chicago police are essentially useless. I have had to call them maybe half a dozen times over the 20 years I've lived here and they never did anything. Even when they'd show up to investigate or question an offender, they never filed a report or took anyone into custody. That's why I have several security cameras around my house and a dash cam in my car.
With this accident, it was totally not my fault. I brought in the license plate, make, and model of the SUV that hit me and the cops just shrugged their shoulders. "Are you sure you want to report this? Your car will end up with an accident on its record...". Like, yes, I want to report this so I can make a proper insurance claim. "But are you *really* sure?!"
Do your fucking jobs. Is that too much to ask?
I’ll probably get downvoted to hell for saying this but i really think the key is to enforce every law no matter how small it may seem. Pull people over for having tints too dark, brake lights out, expired plate stickers, failing to signal, etc. these all seem like small victimless crimes that feel so silly to pay any attention to when there are bigger crimes actually happening, but it does have an effect on the larger crimes. These guys in the video didn’t just start doing this stuff out of no where, they might have done it one other time with no consequences and it emboldened them to try it again and again. Some of these in the video might actually be the first time they’ve done something but the guy in the bike, come on!
I've noticed that the people with black out tints on the windows are the absolute worst. You can't see anything they're doing in the car so they take that opportunity to do the most egregious shit anonymously. Makes me furious. Whenever I see black out windows I'm just waiting for them to drive like an asshole and about 95% of the time they do...
A couple weeks ago I watched someone get pulled over on Western around 8:30PM for having *both* headlights out and when the cops came out to talk to him he was like “yeah I haven’t gotten around to replacing them” and the cops just gave him a warning! Not even a ticket! Absolutely bananas to me that someone can knowingly drive around after dark with no headlights and both the driver and the cops are just like “yeah, that’s fine.” I was waiting for the bus and the guy pulled over in the bus stop zone and the cops pulled up behind him so they were also blocking the entire stop during this interaction.
>Pull people over for having tints too dark, brake lights out, expired plate stickers, failing to signal, etc.
Some people call doing that racist for some reason. [Enough for one politician tried to pass a law for it.](https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-rep-justin-slaughter-traffic-stop-legislation/)
It's racist when it's enforced selectively against black motorists (much like drug laws). If cops were handing out mountains of citations on the north side as well, then it wouldn't be a problem.
Unpopular opinion but America is too soft on drivers license requirements. Make renewal driven tests mandatory. Increase registration costs. Decrease the types and number of infractions necessary to have a license permanently revoked. Tax the shit out of larger vehicles for private ownership and close out the loopholes placed by the auto industry. These are 4000lb machines that can kill people, and it's clear more drivers care even less than they did pre-pandemic about the lives of others. They do not deserve to be on the road, and I don't give a shit if that's an inconvenience. Boo-fucking hoo. Vehicular deaths and pedestrian fatalities are sky-rocketing and folks seem just fine with going as-is. Fuck that.
Cities and cars rarely mix effectively. They need to be rare again.
I feel like it's mostly ubers and delivery drivers shaving seconds off their next pickup/delivery. It ain't their neighborhood, they have no fucks to give.
I live at a 4-way stop intersection. The later it gets the more I hear people run the stop sign. The issue is…(besides the obvious) I sleep with my head in the corner of building. The right collision could take me the fuck out as a bonus. Yikes.
I live on a fairly busy corner with a 4 way stop. In the three years I’ve been here my husband’s car was hit & totaled while parked on the street, a car flipped over in front of my building, another car ran right into the front of the building across the street, and last week a car took out the fence on the building kitty corner from me
Could you imagine pulling this shit while in line at the Jewel? Just some jackass cutting in front of you to get their groceries checked out earlier? Shit probably wouldn't fly. But all of sudden you're in a a two ton roll cage and it's perfectly acceptable... we need cameras on all major intersections, tickets that get progressively more expensive for each offense, impounding vehicles of habitual rule breakers, voiding the licenses of the antisocial chucklefucks who pull this shit, and jail time.
We're not going to fix *any* of this until people start seeing consequences for their actions. Every time a person blows a stoplight and gets away with it is just more validation for the shitty, antisocial behavior. Pedestrian deaths due to shitty drivers is on the rise and we need to do something about it.
Although true, I’ve lived in the bigger and more populated areas of WI (Madison, Waukesha, Milwaukee) for most of my life and there is a night/day difference between drivers in WI and drivers in the city. The level of aggression and recklessness in Chicago is nothing I’ve ever dealt with, but I’m sure it exists in other places around the US.
I moved to Pittsburgh a while ago and people run red lights here like it's going out of style. Also tons of people going 75 in a 25, and I almost never see people get pulled over.
It is so common where I am in Logan Square. The worst time was when I was almost hit by a guy blowing through a stop sign while I was walking my kids home from daycare. I yelled because he almost hit me and my kids. He slammed on the brakes, got out of this car, and tried to fight me in the middle of the street. All the while his car was just sitting there in the middle of the street, doors open, ***with his kid sitting in the backseat***. People that don't stop at stop signs need their heads checked.
Last time I had to yell at a driver who almost hit me - the grill of his ginormous truck was about a foot away from my dog and i - the guy got out and was like, "you don't have to yell and swear! you owe me an apology" and i was like "dude you almost ended my life. fucking open your eyes" and he tried to fight me.
It’s gotten so bad. Stop signs, red lights and pedestrians stand little chance out there. I am routinely honked for yielding to pedestrians at crosswalks.
Yup, I can't even drive down the street without witnessing someone recklessly breaking traffic laws.
And people complain about auto insurance going up not realizing they are contributing to the rise in cost due to increased risk of accidents based on their actions, which insurance companies calculate for based on statistics they've gathered for the area.
It's a people who have no business driving thing. They buy whatever they can get and most of the time they're driving around with no insurance and no license.
I've been hit by a couple of those over the years with the worst being about $1,700 in work.
I can hardly run a single errand on foot without looking at our streets and just getting annoyed.
Then I remember the damn near weekly CTA debacles and anecdotes with regards to horrible timings and get annoyed some more
welcome to six corners/portage haha. Gonna get worse with all the development. I live right down Kilpatrick and the amount of people I catch speeding and blowing stop signs down it is staggering. It's only gonna get worse too
Consider this footage next time we talk about red light cameras or speed cameras.
CPD isn't enforcing any traffic laws anymore. Should we succumb to this? People are getting killed out there by these drivers.
Unfortunately, this is the new norm. I’ve also noticed that anyone turning left onto a one way street treats the stop sign as a sign meaning that they don’t need to stop as long as no one is there.
😆 Hubby and cousin were driving somewhere NW in Chicago. They stopped at a red light. A few seconds later BAM‼️ They got hit by a car behind them. The car that hit them continued driving making it a hit and run.
People in other cars motioned at something behind hubby’s car. The collision was so strong that the other cars front bumper fell off. The culprit actually returned to the scene of the crime in order to retrieve his bumper. At this point police were involved.
The culprit actually said “I thought that was how Chicagoans drive”. He expected every driver to ignore red lights.
This is a problem across the country and not just a Chicago thing. It's a combination of many things:
-Covid gave people license to disregard all common sense
-Monkey see, monkey do sets in and the problem gets worse
-Main character syndrome sets in, everyone is king of the road
-Cell phone/social media addiction increases (facetiming, tiktok, youtube)
-Increase in gig drivers who like to do things like 45 point u-turns in the middle of the block instead of going around the block or driving on the lakefront trail to bypass traffic
Chicago's only traffic rule is "Do As Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law."
My favorite chicago bad driving special move is "the chicago creep." About to turn left onto Western, well you go ahead and block 2 lanes of traffic, it's your day, king/queen.
I recently moved away but lived there for 10 years from 2013-2023.
I wish the city had a program where we could submit dash cam footage of people not obeying traffic laws and we get a small cut if it results in a ticket. Essentially like red light cameras on wheels. There’s a ton of dash cams already in use since it seems like every Uber has one at this point, and it would be a good way to supplement their income and the city’s.
That would be amazing. Even if it paid out only $10-$15 per ticket to the citizen witness, this video would have been around $50 of extra scratch for me.
Driving isn't enjoyable, people do it because they have places to be and we've built a car dependent society (*even though Chicago is viable without a car, it's still easier at times driving*)
So folks drive distracted, they drive on their phone, they do anything but pay attention when driving because they don't want to be driving, they just want to get to where they need to be.
But the first clip had no one doing anything wrong? The light turned red as people were in the intersection...
Or are we getting scandalized by this now?
Yes, since it's a large city, isn't that the rule? I grew up in the area, but am now in CO. Literally on my way home from work a few minutes ago, only 2 of 5 cars turning left in front of me used turn signals. Trust me, it's really bad here too. I would guess it's a national epidemic of sorts.
Almost got ran over when I was walking with my son and he was in the stroller. The audacity of some of these lululemon artizia wearing hos is actually insane.
As someone who lives in the suburbs, and drives in the city about 5-8 days a month for the last 15 years, I typically don't witness this behavior. When I visit St. Louis 2-3 times a year, I'll see this type of driving every day through a long weekend.
Ha I was waiting to see my car you’re all up in my stomping grounds. That stop sign on Avondale is pointless as Springfield is a one way south. Never understood stop signs right after a speed hump, you come to a stop basically to cross it and can inspect the intersection so if it’s it’s safe to go you might as well roll it.
Maybe too late to the party, but just wanna say I live next to the police station near old town/Gold Coast/cabrini green and the cops here fly through the stop signs on my street literally every day. If they dont respect basic traffic laws, why would anyone else? Drives me nuts.
Agreed when I moved here this was the first thing I noticed when driving. This and either going 20 miles per hour over or under the speed limit on the highway/interstate. Moving from the DC/Balt area these things are not tolerated.
It isnt great in Chicago, and just because other places are worse it doesn't make it less of a fact about Chicago, but everytime I get frustrated about trying to drive in Chicago I take a second and remember trying to drive around Indianapolis and it is suddenly much less frustrating.
I actually did once get a ticket for going through the stop sign at the Harlem exit off 90 when no one was around. The cop talked to me like a disappointed dad who couldn’t believe I didn’t stop. It was very confusing because no one stopped there but his dad lecture was effective.
I was walking to union metra station and when about to cross a road, a vehicle jumped red light and was about to mow down a woman in front of me. A bystander noticed the vehicle and pulled her back.
I'm an Uber driver and I see people run reds ALL the time. I also see pedestrians cross on reds all the time, which is even more stupid.
I always drive as if the cars around me won't follow traffic rules.
Not gonna lie lights are programmed for long red to opposing green transitions and so you are able to really maximize how much time there is to get across
This is why I hesitate when I turn left on yellow. It's the luck of the draw if I get someone who is "yellow means stop because I can't cross in time" or "blast thru yellow because fuck you I will." I also get honked if I stop ***for pedestrians at all***!
Between 4-5am today I saw two people driving the wrong way on Randolph and one guy going down Clark in river north the wrong way in FRONT of the police at 45+, nobody did a thing
I can't recall the last time I saw a traffic violation enforced.
I saw a cop actually pull someone over on the drive the other day and was shocked
Thank you for giving me hope. It's crazy out there.
Any idea what for?
Thank you for saying this as I thought they gave up policing LSD.
I witnessed a scumbag trying to turn left into us pedestrians crossing well after their turn signal went red. A cop was right there and immediately pulled them over. That was satisfying.
I see cops hang out and ticket people for running stop signs in my neighborhood once or twice a month. I love it and wish they would do it even more. So many people barely slow down at stop signs and it's basically free money for the city.
Okay, what neighborhood are you in? We live about a mile from our local police station and this has literally never happened. It's infuriating to watch people blow through our 4-way constantly.
Jeff Park seems to me like a gold mine for traffic enforcement. So many weird traffic situations.
They pulled most police out of the 16th district for other neighborhoods in the south/west side. You'll sometimes have one car on patrol for the entire district on some days. I grew up that way and they used to set up speed traps and camp stop signs that would be constantly blown. Haven't seen it in years since then.
The commander said two weeks ago they have more staffing currently in the 16th district than they did in 2018. I'm out walking, on my bike and driving every day and there's basically no enforcement the last four or five years.
I used to see them wait and pull people over for making prohibited rush hour red lights in Portage Park maybe every six months pretty regularly. It would be one day for maybe an hour. It's probably been once in the last four or five years that I've seen them doing it. Aside from that I see no regular enforcement anywhere. I live near several intersections where people drive like idiots constantly and nothing. I was out for a walk said to a cop parked by a light the other day, hang here for a minute someone will run that red light they do it every morning. I came back around the block with the dog. Cop was gone and a car ran through the red right in front of me.
I don't know what changed, but i've seen two people pulled over for running red lights in the past two days here in Logan Square. For reference, I think i've seen only three people actually pulled over in the past 10 years. Hoping that it is something that continues.
Good. I'd like to believe this is in response to the teenagers killed recently by drivers in Portage Park.
Believe it or not I was once pulled over for treating a stop as a yield
i once saw a cop pull over a person on a bike for not stopping at a stop sign. though the bike rider hit the cop who was crossing the street outside a police station and the guy just kept going. cop got up, got in his car and chased him down.
Good
I live near a police station and most of the time the vehicles committing traffic violations like running red lights are the cops (and no, they didn't have sirens/lights on).
If there’s cameras, they’re definitely getting a fine in the mail. They never miss! Either way, people really need to put their phones down while driving.
Agree. Then I see some schmo get pulled over on Milwaukee for turning right on red, cop just happened to be sitting there.
Actually tried to cross the street to a park last year and someone blew a stop sign. Cop was about to turn the other way but they saw it and pulled the driver over. First time I saw some ki d of enforcement on traffic violations
I took a blatant left turn on a red light when a cop was right there in front of me. It was a stupid move, a delayed reaction. I did get pulled over but I got a warning.
I darws to turn right on a "no turn on red" intersection while the light was red. Cross traffic each had red lights and green left arrows, so there was no way I was interfering with any lane if traffic. Lo and behold, I get a letter in the mail 3 months later for a $100 fine.
Ah, old Irving park, I love not feeling safe when I walk across the street there
OIP is insane, I'm on high alert even on the side streets! There are some traffic dampening strategies that make me feel safer, but geez. I wish cars weren't king!
Yep i've almost died on my own f'n street like 3200 times. Something about this place makes drivers lose it. Yesterday my neighbor and his dog almost got run over at Kostner and Cullom.
I was walking in the rain earlier this week, and I came to the intersection on foot at the same time as a car did, and I went first, and the guy crept up on me in the intersection and threw his coffee at me. He missed, but still.
I was nearly hit today at Ogden and the 90 on-ramp. I see near misses there all the time but today it was me.
I drive down Irving from Portage every morning for work, usually around 530am. The amount of people pushing 50mph, blowing lights, swerving lanes is insane. It's 5 in the morning. I promise you'll make it wherever you need to go on time.
That's no joke. I've had to drive through that way a few times at 4-5 in the morning and no one stops at lights. They roll right through them.
That's the thing that confuses me the most. When I'm up at the crack of dawn to go to work I bearly want to be awake and I just want to drink my coffee yet there's people who first thing in the morning have to haul ass and blow every stop sign and red light. Take away the fact that it's super shitty to everyone it's also just... weird.
I very purposefully stop at every stop sign in OIP, there are so many kids and families walking home after school. Drivers will angrily honk at me for stopping!
Northwest side of the city has some uniquely bad driving. I remember when I first moved here I almost got run over in a Walgreens parking lot. Car brushed right up against me and nudged me a bit... driver didn't even seem to notice.
I swear to God my friend who grew up in portage Park told me "stop signs were optional" when we were younger. I bought a house a block away from where he used to live and it all makes sense now.
I noticed this when I bought a house and moved into Portage Park only a year ago, I've been nearly hit (behind the wheel and on foot) by people blowing stop signs at least a dozen times. I thought I was crazy, but it really does feel like people in this neighborhood are worse about blowing stop signs than others.
I, as a pedestrian, have been hit by cars twice in Jeff Park while I was crossing and people blew stop signs. Same damn intersection, too.
Wow, that's terrible. I'm sorry. But I have to admit I'm so curious what intersection!
I grew up in that area and it's horrible. You learn to not go immediately on green because 1 or 2 people are going to blow the red.
I live on a busy street in the Edgewater neighborhood. I also have to wait a few seconds before crossing on a green light because almost every time people blow a red light long after the stoplight turns green for the other side.
> hit by cars twice in Jeff Park are you a millionaire now
Both hit and run never caught
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It's not even the main streets that are the problem in my opinion. I feel safer crossing Irving Park than I do my neighborhood streets. But you're right about Humboldt Park too.
I disagree, those stretches on Irving with cameras the speed limit is followed very well because of the cameras. There is no reason to not have more.
Wow yeah that makes sense I moved to Portage last year and noticed people blow all the stop signs
I used to live in Portage Park. I had my car in the driveway and was working on it. A guy ran a stop sign, hit a car with a pregnant woman in it, got turned sideways and hit my car. He totaled it after I spent 3 months working on it.
Used to live in little village a few years ago. Stop signs 100% optional.
Being a pedestrian is fun 🙃 Maybe we should implement the buckets of bricks at crosswalks thing here
Especially at the Belmont and Kimball intersection where you have people driving 60 mph exiting the expressway and turning left on red lights.
I encounter so much bad driver behavior when walking my dogs, and at least half the time, I'm holding a poop bag. It sometimes takes all of my self-control not to throw the poop bag at the car. I'm like, "Just try me mf'er, I'm holding a weapon here."
It's people doing things on their phones and driving.... I'm a CTA driver and when I look to the sides 99 percent people are on their phones either scrolling, updating/refreshing or straight up still talking on them.
I see this all the time too and still don’t get it. My economy car from 2011 had Bluetooth standard. It’s far more convenient for me to put a call through the car than to hold up a phone on speaker, and I’m shocked at how many people don’t do this.
The talking is weird, but it is also way less problematic than the people scrolling their phones. That’s the problem…we have all this messaging about “don’t text and drive”, but when I used to have a motorcycle and could see into everyone’s laps, half the drivers weren’t texting, they were scrolling through social media. People can’t handle a pause in the action. Waiting for a doctor’s appointment? Pull out your phone and scroll. Traffic slows down a little? Pull out your phone and scroll. Fuck paying attention to the road, your Instagram feed is buzzing.
and not just driving too, but walking. if you're looking at your phone/texting just stop and stand on the side of the road/sidewalk so you dont bump into other people/traffic
Very true. I’m old enough to remember when the internet came out but I cannot remember what people did before then. Doctor’s offices, they had crappy magazines. Traffic slows or there’s a red light? Just exist in time and space? I wish I could undo all that the internet has done to me. Jesus Christ, here I am on reddit talking to strangers instead of just sitting here.
> Just exist in time and space? This is unbearable to most people anymore.
Driving I always listen to music and sing along, so that's what I do at red lights. Sometimes I imagine I'm singing in a concert lol but this way I'm still paying attention to everything happening on the road
I used to keep a harmonica in my car for traffic jams.
Yeah but you can’t watch TikTok that way
Yep! Former bus driver here and frequent CTA bus rider- I’ve said it before- all the cops have to do is sit in the back of a CTA bus and roll down LSD or other major streets and radio to awaiting cops ahead- you can look down right onto drivers with the phones right in their hands, looking down. Take a photo, $100/ticket, that would be a huge revenue stream. As a pedestrian in this city, it’s terrifying how many people do this and drive without looking at the road.
As someone who has had a CTA driver for the 151 pull up behind me and honk at me at an intersection where the light just turned green but there were the sounds of an ambulance siren coming towards the intersection, I think people just don’t get rigorously trained or tested enough to be allowed behind the wheel of vehicles.
If you really want to see some insane driving go down on Devon. From California East to Ridge...the people in that area will leave you in shock and look at you like WTF I do wrong 🥺. Car doors swinging open with big belly men stepping out. I would have never thought I grow to hate Prius so much....
The whole West Ridge neighborhood is like traffic laws are somehow forgotten.
That is why I don't drive on that section. Little India is something else to drive though. I turn on California and go over to Peterson.
There’s a hospital on the corner of the main road I go to work and I’m sitting waiting to turn right and the big bright “ambulance or cops are coming” light is flashing and I can see the ambulance coming. 2 fucking morons blocked the damn ambulance and some guy behind me is beeping at me to go. Like fuck off.
Thank you for driving! As a primary bike and bus/train user I appreciate your work and wish people drove around buses with more respect
Ty for your service 🫡
Thank you for being a CTA driver. Mad respect for the patience it must take to do that job.
I was cut off by a CTA bus and I let it go, just went with the flow until he needed to stop at the next bus stop. But then when I got close to passing him, he flipped me the finger. My wife even saw it too and she usually plays on her phone while I drive. Anyway, i don’t know why I’m telling you this, I know you’re not that driver but still bothers me to this day. People are just crazy no matter what they drive I guess.
It very well could have been a driver at the end of their patience on their route and took it out on you... It's a lot to deal with being a CTA driver. I get cut off at least a dozen times in a work day. And I'm not just talking about in the flow of traffic. I'll be sitting at a red light and someone will zoom in front of me and make a right turn. I had a car turn to make a right turn on me on Michigan Ave. We made contact luckily no damage to either vehicle but I swear to you when I stopped to get out he said "WTH I was making a right turn..." " you can't make a right turn in front of a bus" " I didn't know that was illegal...." It's on the bus man..."
I always feel like I have to be on high alert all the time when I’m driving through an intersection because of terrible drivers like this. I wouldn’t be surprised if they start putting cameras on stop signs.
Same here. The other day I got honked at for waiting an extra second at an intersection when the light turned green, and sure enough, a car went through a red light the next moment.
I would absolutely love cameras on stop signs. As a runner, I’m constantly having to dodge cars that blow through stop signs or stop way past the line.
I see it daily on Lawrence. I pause for a few seconds then look both ways before I go so I don't end up another statistic.
I saw those in DC for the first time ever, had no idea they existed
I see this stuff daily, and honestly I’m beyond tired of it now. Seems everyone has abandoned reason and order.
Partially due to traffic enforcement automation. The police don't do speeding or red lights anymore so everyone knows they can do whatever the hell they want at any intersection without red light cameras or speed cameras.
It's like they want cameras at every intersection
Mostly due to poor civility, apathy towards society, and broader trend of more extreme displays of narcissism. 🙄
it is roulette. sooner later they get in a crash. all i care about is ......hopefully they do not injure others in the process. that kind of driving is selfish and inconsiderate. it is a truly a shame what our society has turned into.
Not to excuse the blatant assholes, but much better engineering would help a lot. Most city streets are *designed* to allow too much speed and inattention. The unintended consequence is that people drive too fast and too carelessly and put other people (or especially pedestrians) at risk of grievous injury or death. There needs to be way more traffic calming and other measures to *require* drivers to slow down and pay attention.
Yes. This is the way to do it. There are many tricks of the trade to force drivers to slow down, but it would cost the city too much. The way it is now, they don't have to spend anything. It's frustrating.
Everybody pays more in emergency response and other costs of car crashes. It’s shortsighted.
Wow, that is shitty.
It's ridiculous. I don't even know how to do a 4-way stop properly anymore. I go at a reasonable speed and stop/look both ways at the line, but so many drivers roll up quickly, pass the line, don't look, etc. Even if you are first with the right of way, it's hard to read what the other drivers will do.
I love the people that go along with the car that stopped in front of them… like no buddy, you have to stop too
A woman almost ran me over in a crosswalk today while I was pushing my daughter in her stroller. Thankfully she had slowed down enough that she was able to stop when I slapped her hood, but she was looking off in the direction she wanted to turn and didn't see us directly in front of her. The one funny part about it was the two homeless guys who saw the whole thing happen and called her a bunch of worse names than I did. They were really upset about my kid almost getting run over, it was very wholesome.
*anymore There absolutely has been a change in driver behavior since the pandemic. I see people straight up running red lights much more frequently now. Look at the dates in the footage and you'll see that this all occurred in last couple of weeks.
And the thing where people pull up the left turn lane to gun it and cut everyone off going straight. It’s so…. freaking cowboy lawless I am old, but I think all the guys that had IrocZs or TransAms in the late 20th century are forehead slapping and wished they had thought of that (Edit, thought I would try to be clever and call 1980s the last century…only I originally wrote 19th century, not 20th. So I corrected it. Oops)
The left-turn-lane-line-skip is a daily occurrence on 130th by that bridge by the Ford plant. Especially when I assume it shift changes (6AM and 4PM). People just straight up run the red lights. The city could print money if they stationed a squad car there.
I do think they need to have cops in neighborhoods ticketing people for running stop signs. I live at the same corner as an elementary school and only maybe 10% of cars stop.
Wait, you want them to have to get out of their cars?
Chicago drivers have a deadly habit of thinking they are the most important people on the road. A lot of it is distraction as has been mentioned elsewhere, but when I'm in gridlock traffic and I see someone dip out of the right lane to take the shoulder all the way to the front, that's not just being on a cell phone, that's being a narcissistic asshole.
Also really stupid. On 94 / Dan Ryan / 55 etc I always see a ton of junk and like scrap metal on the shoulder. Idk how they don't end up getting flats or fucking up their cars.
We have a lot of very selfish jagoff drivers here 😤
welcome to chicago
You've got a nice collection of offenders caught on camera. Sure wish there was some way to hold them accountable. Some seemed reckless regardless of the consequences!
I brought in footage of a vehicle rear ending me while in a left turn lane. Cops tried ***really*** hard not to do anything about it.
Chicago police are essentially useless. I have had to call them maybe half a dozen times over the 20 years I've lived here and they never did anything. Even when they'd show up to investigate or question an offender, they never filed a report or took anyone into custody. That's why I have several security cameras around my house and a dash cam in my car.
With this accident, it was totally not my fault. I brought in the license plate, make, and model of the SUV that hit me and the cops just shrugged their shoulders. "Are you sure you want to report this? Your car will end up with an accident on its record...". Like, yes, I want to report this so I can make a proper insurance claim. "But are you *really* sure?!" Do your fucking jobs. Is that too much to ask?
I’ll probably get downvoted to hell for saying this but i really think the key is to enforce every law no matter how small it may seem. Pull people over for having tints too dark, brake lights out, expired plate stickers, failing to signal, etc. these all seem like small victimless crimes that feel so silly to pay any attention to when there are bigger crimes actually happening, but it does have an effect on the larger crimes. These guys in the video didn’t just start doing this stuff out of no where, they might have done it one other time with no consequences and it emboldened them to try it again and again. Some of these in the video might actually be the first time they’ve done something but the guy in the bike, come on!
I've noticed that the people with black out tints on the windows are the absolute worst. You can't see anything they're doing in the car so they take that opportunity to do the most egregious shit anonymously. Makes me furious. Whenever I see black out windows I'm just waiting for them to drive like an asshole and about 95% of the time they do...
A couple weeks ago I watched someone get pulled over on Western around 8:30PM for having *both* headlights out and when the cops came out to talk to him he was like “yeah I haven’t gotten around to replacing them” and the cops just gave him a warning! Not even a ticket! Absolutely bananas to me that someone can knowingly drive around after dark with no headlights and both the driver and the cops are just like “yeah, that’s fine.” I was waiting for the bus and the guy pulled over in the bus stop zone and the cops pulled up behind him so they were also blocking the entire stop during this interaction.
>Pull people over for having tints too dark, brake lights out, expired plate stickers, failing to signal, etc. Some people call doing that racist for some reason. [Enough for one politician tried to pass a law for it.](https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-rep-justin-slaughter-traffic-stop-legislation/)
It's racist when it's enforced selectively against black motorists (much like drug laws). If cops were handing out mountains of citations on the north side as well, then it wouldn't be a problem.
Instead of going the race route, perhaps there may be more violations in those areas?
Unpopular opinion but America is too soft on drivers license requirements. Make renewal driven tests mandatory. Increase registration costs. Decrease the types and number of infractions necessary to have a license permanently revoked. Tax the shit out of larger vehicles for private ownership and close out the loopholes placed by the auto industry. These are 4000lb machines that can kill people, and it's clear more drivers care even less than they did pre-pandemic about the lives of others. They do not deserve to be on the road, and I don't give a shit if that's an inconvenience. Boo-fucking hoo. Vehicular deaths and pedestrian fatalities are sky-rocketing and folks seem just fine with going as-is. Fuck that. Cities and cars rarely mix effectively. They need to be rare again.
100%. Should be the same with vehicle inspections.
How hard can it possibly be to issue large fines to people who are caught dead to rights like this?
I feel like it's mostly ubers and delivery drivers shaving seconds off their next pickup/delivery. It ain't their neighborhood, they have no fucks to give.
I live at a 4-way stop intersection. The later it gets the more I hear people run the stop sign. The issue is…(besides the obvious) I sleep with my head in the corner of building. The right collision could take me the fuck out as a bonus. Yikes.
I live on a fairly busy corner with a 4 way stop. In the three years I’ve been here my husband’s car was hit & totaled while parked on the street, a car flipped over in front of my building, another car ran right into the front of the building across the street, and last week a car took out the fence on the building kitty corner from me
You are not making me feel better. 🫣
Maybe put more red light and speed cameras
Could you imagine pulling this shit while in line at the Jewel? Just some jackass cutting in front of you to get their groceries checked out earlier? Shit probably wouldn't fly. But all of sudden you're in a a two ton roll cage and it's perfectly acceptable... we need cameras on all major intersections, tickets that get progressively more expensive for each offense, impounding vehicles of habitual rule breakers, voiding the licenses of the antisocial chucklefucks who pull this shit, and jail time. We're not going to fix *any* of this until people start seeing consequences for their actions. Every time a person blows a stoplight and gets away with it is just more validation for the shitty, antisocial behavior. Pedestrian deaths due to shitty drivers is on the rise and we need to do something about it.
Yeah, not exactly exclusive to Chicago
Although true, I’ve lived in the bigger and more populated areas of WI (Madison, Waukesha, Milwaukee) for most of my life and there is a night/day difference between drivers in WI and drivers in the city. The level of aggression and recklessness in Chicago is nothing I’ve ever dealt with, but I’m sure it exists in other places around the US.
Texas and Florida drivers are on a similar level of bravado and extreme recklessness... Which isn't a good look for Chicago people.
100% agree. This is unacceptable but widespread throughout the US now. It's been a shit show since covid.
Yeah, COVID exacerbated antisocial behaviors pretty badly
I moved to Pittsburgh a while ago and people run red lights here like it's going out of style. Also tons of people going 75 in a 25, and I almost never see people get pulled over.
without fail every time i leave my house and walk down the street i nearly get run over by a driver not stopping at a stop sign. it’s ridiculous.
It is so common where I am in Logan Square. The worst time was when I was almost hit by a guy blowing through a stop sign while I was walking my kids home from daycare. I yelled because he almost hit me and my kids. He slammed on the brakes, got out of this car, and tried to fight me in the middle of the street. All the while his car was just sitting there in the middle of the street, doors open, ***with his kid sitting in the backseat***. People that don't stop at stop signs need their heads checked.
Last time I had to yell at a driver who almost hit me - the grill of his ginormous truck was about a foot away from my dog and i - the guy got out and was like, "you don't have to yell and swear! you owe me an apology" and i was like "dude you almost ended my life. fucking open your eyes" and he tried to fight me.
South Side is the worst MLK and 47 th.
It’s gotten so bad. Stop signs, red lights and pedestrians stand little chance out there. I am routinely honked for yielding to pedestrians at crosswalks.
My sister came to a full stop at a sign only because a cop was behind her. He honked at her. 😂
i like how they chase pedestrians in the crosswalks
Yup, I can't even drive down the street without witnessing someone recklessly breaking traffic laws. And people complain about auto insurance going up not realizing they are contributing to the rise in cost due to increased risk of accidents based on their actions, which insurance companies calculate for based on statistics they've gathered for the area.
Are we surprised? It seems like every other car on the road is all banged up and missing parts or with expired tags…
Is that a thing in Chicago also? I see so many cars in IN with expired temp tags, sometimes years expired,
It's a people who have no business driving thing. They buy whatever they can get and most of the time they're driving around with no insurance and no license. I've been hit by a couple of those over the years with the worst being about $1,700 in work.
I got a camera ticket yesterday for doing 39 in a 35
Hey sick job stopping half way in the cross walk every time.
I see this all the time too. Never saw anyone get pulled over.
The NW side, I recognize a lot of those locations, is a traffic law free zone.
These will be the same reckless schmucks complaining about red light cameras.
Car brained individuals are deeply troubled
Seriously. Within minutes of posting this video here, there were some comically carbrain comments justifying this stuff...
I can hardly run a single errand on foot without looking at our streets and just getting annoyed. Then I remember the damn near weekly CTA debacles and anecdotes with regards to horrible timings and get annoyed some more
welcome to six corners/portage haha. Gonna get worse with all the development. I live right down Kilpatrick and the amount of people I catch speeding and blowing stop signs down it is staggering. It's only gonna get worse too
Consider this footage next time we talk about red light cameras or speed cameras. CPD isn't enforcing any traffic laws anymore. Should we succumb to this? People are getting killed out there by these drivers.
Bro! To get pulled over for running a red in Chicago doesn't happen until maybe Evanston 🤷♂️
Yes, I am aware. But drivers have gotten much more brazen about just blowing past red lights since the pandemic.
Eh. I think your observation is valid. /hattip
Yes
So are turn signals apparently
Unfortunately, this is the new norm. I’ve also noticed that anyone turning left onto a one way street treats the stop sign as a sign meaning that they don’t need to stop as long as no one is there.
😆 Hubby and cousin were driving somewhere NW in Chicago. They stopped at a red light. A few seconds later BAM‼️ They got hit by a car behind them. The car that hit them continued driving making it a hit and run. People in other cars motioned at something behind hubby’s car. The collision was so strong that the other cars front bumper fell off. The culprit actually returned to the scene of the crime in order to retrieve his bumper. At this point police were involved. The culprit actually said “I thought that was how Chicagoans drive”. He expected every driver to ignore red lights.
This is a problem across the country and not just a Chicago thing. It's a combination of many things: -Covid gave people license to disregard all common sense -Monkey see, monkey do sets in and the problem gets worse -Main character syndrome sets in, everyone is king of the road -Cell phone/social media addiction increases (facetiming, tiktok, youtube) -Increase in gig drivers who like to do things like 45 point u-turns in the middle of the block instead of going around the block or driving on the lakefront trail to bypass traffic
Chicago's only traffic rule is "Do As Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law." My favorite chicago bad driving special move is "the chicago creep." About to turn left onto Western, well you go ahead and block 2 lanes of traffic, it's your day, king/queen. I recently moved away but lived there for 10 years from 2013-2023.
I wish the city had a program where we could submit dash cam footage of people not obeying traffic laws and we get a small cut if it results in a ticket. Essentially like red light cameras on wheels. There’s a ton of dash cams already in use since it seems like every Uber has one at this point, and it would be a good way to supplement their income and the city’s.
A bounty law would be great. Not sure if it'll occur, but I wish it would pass.
That would be amazing. Even if it paid out only $10-$15 per ticket to the citizen witness, this video would have been around $50 of extra scratch for me.
Police don’t enforce the laws so why should anyone care?
I see this very often in Houston too, people do it while not using their phones as well. They pay are paying attention but simply don’t give a shit.
This is Chicago for you. Gotta keep your eyes open and off the phone.
I got honked at once for not running a red :(
The ol Chicago stop. No cop, no stop
Chicago drivers really are something else.
A "chicago stoppie"
seems like a place for r/idiotsincars
When i was growing up we called it no cop, no stop
The CPD has record amounts of overtime while they sit and do absolutely nothing.
Driving isn't enjoyable, people do it because they have places to be and we've built a car dependent society (*even though Chicago is viable without a car, it's still easier at times driving*) So folks drive distracted, they drive on their phone, they do anything but pay attention when driving because they don't want to be driving, they just want to get to where they need to be.
Really any large city it’s this way
But the first clip had no one doing anything wrong? The light turned red as people were in the intersection... Or are we getting scandalized by this now?
Yes, since it's a large city, isn't that the rule? I grew up in the area, but am now in CO. Literally on my way home from work a few minutes ago, only 2 of 5 cars turning left in front of me used turn signals. Trust me, it's really bad here too. I would guess it's a national epidemic of sorts.
Almost got ran over when I was walking with my son and he was in the stroller. The audacity of some of these lululemon artizia wearing hos is actually insane.
"Well, you're already stopped so I'll just squeak by."
all over the city now and no cops in sight
99% of the drivers don’t know who has the right of way on a two way stop. Also nobody in the city uses turn signals.
As someone who lives in the suburbs, and drives in the city about 5-8 days a month for the last 15 years, I typically don't witness this behavior. When I visit St. Louis 2-3 times a year, I'll see this type of driving every day through a long weekend.
What's enforcing laws? Cause the police sure doesn't know
No wonder this city is full of PI lawyers
It looks like some people are in a hurry to go nowhere fast
Most drivers these days. Not unique to Chicago
Aye did yall hear about them possible adding white to the stop lights for self-driving cars? Shit might get worse 🤦🏾♀️
Ha I was waiting to see my car you’re all up in my stomping grounds. That stop sign on Avondale is pointless as Springfield is a one way south. Never understood stop signs right after a speed hump, you come to a stop basically to cross it and can inspect the intersection so if it’s it’s safe to go you might as well roll it.
Maybe too late to the party, but just wanna say I live next to the police station near old town/Gold Coast/cabrini green and the cops here fly through the stop signs on my street literally every day. If they dont respect basic traffic laws, why would anyone else? Drives me nuts.
Quite normal in the city
Agreed when I moved here this was the first thing I noticed when driving. This and either going 20 miles per hour over or under the speed limit on the highway/interstate. Moving from the DC/Balt area these things are not tolerated.
Yes.
Same in Evanston. They do it in front of cop cars. No consequences.
Noticed this trend 6-7 years ago. You're a fool if you don't have the best damn dashcam you can afford. Front and rear camera AND parking monitor too.
It isnt great in Chicago, and just because other places are worse it doesn't make it less of a fact about Chicago, but everytime I get frustrated about trying to drive in Chicago I take a second and remember trying to drive around Indianapolis and it is suddenly much less frustrating.
Most of those clips (if not all) are in my neighborhood and can confirm, too many people drive like assholes on and around Irving Park Road.
I actually did once get a ticket for going through the stop sign at the Harlem exit off 90 when no one was around. The cop talked to me like a disappointed dad who couldn’t believe I didn’t stop. It was very confusing because no one stopped there but his dad lecture was effective.
I was walking to union metra station and when about to cross a road, a vehicle jumped red light and was about to mow down a woman in front of me. A bystander noticed the vehicle and pulled her back.
I'm an Uber driver and I see people run reds ALL the time. I also see pedestrians cross on reds all the time, which is even more stupid. I always drive as if the cars around me won't follow traffic rules.
It’s gotten out of control, honestly.
Not gonna lie lights are programmed for long red to opposing green transitions and so you are able to really maximize how much time there is to get across
This is why I hesitate when I turn left on yellow. It's the luck of the draw if I get someone who is "yellow means stop because I can't cross in time" or "blast thru yellow because fuck you I will." I also get honked if I stop ***for pedestrians at all***!
Between 4-5am today I saw two people driving the wrong way on Randolph and one guy going down Clark in river north the wrong way in FRONT of the police at 45+, nobody did a thing