Fun fact, the town is pronounced “pea-buh-dee.”

Photo of CarPlay map showing a complicated route with the caption “pov: you missed ONE EXIT in massachusetts”

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[–] 70 points 1 year ago (2 children)

just a clover leaf, mate. on some roads if you miss an exit you gotta wait til the next town to turn around

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  • [–] 62 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    You know as embarrassing as this is, thank you to everyone who gracefully misses an exit. It's much better that the dangerous morons who realize it and cut across to the exit lane with no warning afraid to miss their exit.

    As the saying goes. A good driver sometimes misses their exit. A bad driver never does.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I saw a person attempting to REVERSE on the interstate once because they missed their exit

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    I’ve seen that multiple times. I always slow down, get the tag number, and call the cops to report them. They don’t deserve to drive putting lives at risk like that

    Edit: Thanks for the one two downvotes, person people who think losing 10 mins of travel time is worse than human death and suffering due to negligence

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Am i missing something? What's the problem here? Just go through the cloverleaf, you maybe added a minute to your trip.

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    Could you elaborate? Truly not getting it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In Mass, that cloverleaf could add a long time. The merges between highways get very crowded very fast and everyone drives like an asshole, slowing things down even further.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    A cloverleaf would only add significant time if there was traffic, in which case you'd have to be pretty stupid to miss your exit since everything is happening in slow motion.

    I've driven in a lot of places and MA isn't really any worse than anywhere else I've driven. CT is way worse in terms of sucky drivers IMO

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    In NJ it would be called a jughandle because they're allergic to left turns in a lot of places (and they do work well in context). Nice to see some jughandle maximization.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    In NJ it would be called a jughandle

    That's not a jug-handle. That's a clover. A jug-handle is like the i80 on-ramp near Kennedy and Jackson in Hackensack.

    And, if you're up near Paramus, you only know that exit had a 'U'-turn because of a sign as you pass UNDER the exit in question. It's why NJ drivers are so angry.

    But I disagree that the left-exit is better than the jug-handle. Slow-movers in the passing lane is always dumb on a freeway -- it's like someone on a 10-speed in the left lane. Unless it's a highway and the left lane is a controlled turning lane, the left exit is the best way to a stressful day for everyone.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I was wondering if they still did that and of course they do. The Jersey Jughandle is an abomination of traffic engineering.

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  • I'm originally from MA. And I hate this.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Did you take the photo while driving? On a highway, at night?

    Don't do that, please.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    West coaster now in the northeast…. All these states are like this! It’s bonkers! Where my public transportation??

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Where my public transportation??

    NYC

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    This looks kinda fun to drive through. I'd miss my exit on purpose just to drive through that lol

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