Almost got rear ended on my motorcycle because of this absurd behavior. Guy just blew by me on the right and ran the red light after I stopped. If there was a c

Almost got rear ended on my motorcycle because of this absurd behavior. Guy just blew by me on the right and ran the red light after I stopped. If there was a car parked on my right I would likely ended up on the pavement and likely the hospital. I've lived in MA most of my life but (and especially after spending the last four years in Austin), Boston is some next level bad driving. I think the most infuriating part about driving in Boston is every week I can feel myself drifting farther and farther from the rules. I always stop at stop signs and red lights. I mean, as a motorcycle rider, you follow the rules or you die. But here, I'm often forced to break the rules so I don't get hit by all the other people breaking the rules. My road-humanity is slowly slipping away. I always used wonder how people get to be so absolutely terrible at driving. It's not like a minor slip up, a rolling stop here, a cutoff that they feel bad about there. It's this insane either A) extreme aggressiveness and willful disdain for the safety of other drivers around them or B) a complete and utter lack of awareness of where they are in relation to other cars and pedestrians. Usually a mix between the two. But what I realized is a good portion of the drivers around cities like Boston have only ever driven around Boston. They've only ever driven in a place that, due to its layout, is a hodgepodge of hard-to-read intersections, a mish-mash of people who don't know where they're going and people who needed to be where they're going 30 minutes ago and heaven forbid you slow them down by another 2 minutes. They learned the rules of Boston, not the rules of a sane, conscientious, safe driver. I swear, if all these people rode a motorcycle for a month or took a MSF class, they'd all become much better drivers and realize the heinous unsafe conditions they perpetuate on a daily basis. That or they'd die because that behavior does not work on a motorycle. At least, not for very long.