Shout out to the pickers who storm down the aisles of the grocery stores with their big carts. The apparent goal is to make being in the store so unpleasant that we all stop coming in person.

Bicycles sometimes slow down cars, but cars slow down everyone all the time.

Trying to exert personal control over congestive traffic via webapp... now this is some shining millennial hubris.
Again we visit H.D. Thoreau: "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."
Or J. Brennan: "You can't pray a lie."

+1

And a big eff-you to all the Uber/Lyft drivers (especially on the UW campus) who stop in the middle of the street (no, turning on your hazard blinkers doesn't mean you're not impeding traffic, you stupid twats), or who blow through stop signs and traffic lights.

Thank you, IA! My particular favorite is the boneheads who use downtown bus zones as their waiting spot for their passengers - in rush hour! They sit there staring at their phones, ignoring the bus and the people on the curb. The self-absorption is astonishing.

Stopping in the bike lane to wait for your fare is another Lyft/Uber favorite. Even better is putting on your blinker and moving into the bike lane right on top of a group of cyclists! Don't worry. They all have brakes, so they can surely stop for you. And when they call you out on it, say "I used my signal, what's the problem?"

This wouldn’t happen to be regarding an Uber white 4-door with WA vanity plate that says “IMFROMVT” or something like that, now would it?

Just wondering because Monday the driver of that vehicle stopped for me when I was in a crosswalk on 12th then slammed on the gas and gunned it before I completed crossing. He had a big cheesy grin on his face and the people I was walking with thought that no matter if it was on accident or on purpose it was still weird AF.

I used to work with Dara Krashowski and keep meaning to tell him or his people about this heinous wrong but license plate naming and shaming on the interwebz is maybe even better.

Hey, you patronize the vaunted disruptive economy, you get other disruption, too. Stop whinging.

At the risk of being crapped on, must note that some of the "ride share (lie)" driver (and conventional taxi driver, and some regular drivers) prob is cultural - rules of the road are just, shall we say, more flexible - nah, ignored - in Nairobi, Addis, Mogadishu, Karachi, Mumbai, etc., and the seeming self-absorption and lane-squatting cluelessness and haughtiness exhibited by some is also cultural. That's just the way it is. The companies should impress upon their new hires that there is some etiquette involved and some adaptation required.

My sole desire for immigration reform is driver education, but then saying that in Seattle where the native drivers can't drive for shit is a tad hypocritical. And I caught myself dawdling at a four-way just the other day...

Fletc3her @1: +2. I can't imagine having to drive through Seattle anymore.

Autonomous vehicles will never replace drivers, that's not the point of heralding them as the way of the future. No, the point is more along the lines of effectively turning humans into automatons inhumanely treating other humans like inanimate objects.

Everybody please quit using ride sharing apps. Uber, Lyft etc. are breaking all the rules and clogging the streets for everybody else. And truckers as well need to learn to navigate without GPS. You can't drive and read your phone at the same time.

Isn't Uber/Lyft breaking the law already, just by simply being in operation? Also, I hate Uber/Lyft and wish it would go away. Who gives them the right to block traffic just to pick up a fare? That's why taxi's have pick up zones. Uber/Lyft is just a taxi service. Regulate them stiffly. (out of business hopefully)

I think this describes the Seattle driver. Does anyone in this city know the concept of fast lane vs. slow lane? :)

@9: Seriously. I'm still reeling after the senseless Ducks tragedy on the Aurora Bridge. That shameless tour company should be put out of business.
@14 RicketyRick: I do, but I can't speak for anyone else.

My favorite is when they park in bus lanes and halt all buses from passing.

As a said note to this conversation - can't Uber / Lyft drivers be forced to take some kind of "Seattle Geography and Roadways Test" before given the okay to drive. I've literally NEVER had a driver who didn't take the most fucked up route to get from Point A to Point B. It's like ever driver I get is driving in Seattle for the very first time.

IF YOU AR IN AMERUCA SZPEAK ZE ENGLISH!

@13 - Laws are for poor people, silly.

In SF we're starting to see drop-off/pickup zones enforced on rideshares. I'm sure it's coming to Seattle soon.

@13 we tried regulating them - but all the people (you know, voters) who like using uber and lyft protested, so we don't regulate them.

@18 Drop-off/ Pick-up zones are already put up during large events in Seattle to help mitigate the ride share onslaught...they completely generally completely ignored.

Ditto for the 100% of delivery drivers who park illegally, blocking bike lanes and sometimes more than an entire drive lane (in the case of semi trailers). Fuck you. We need to ban personal motor vehicles and only license the very best, most conscientious drivers (or robots) to drive professionally.

"Professional driver" to me means that you have a Commercial Driver's License.

Bear in mind that moonlighting for Uber or Lyft is the equivalent of working a minimum wage job. The work is sometimes important, but the required skill set is microscopic. Rideshare drivers are to professional drivers as McDonald's burger flippers are to restaurant cooks.