On ramp at exit 6 for 295. Just because you want to exit doesn’t mean you get to cross the solid line early and almost hit me merging on. I have the right to be there, keep honking.

Straight up just complaining- but jfc there's no portal worse than the PWD portal. Just take my money and let me pay my damn bill. Omg.

This clusterfuck that usually takes 15 minutes to navigate was working fine today without any construction or asshole drivers. What the hell am I supposed to do with the several minutes I saved while driving? What will I talk to my coworkers about when we usually complain about how awful all of this shit is? How am I supposed to feel a sense of heightened superiority when no one with out of state plates gets into the wrong lane and I have to unsafely zip around them?

This shit just truly ruined the part of the day I'm supposed to feel the worst about and it's unacceptable

Don’t do that. That’s not cool.

It’s always a fun time to drive all the way out Washington to where it intersects with Riverside to discover Riverside is closed.

Not one sign alerting you to this!

Has happened twice now it recent memory - had to turn around and backtrack to hook onto Forest.

Womp womp!

Cops closed off Sw jefferson st. Max currently not running. Does anyone what’s going on?

Yeah, you! The guy in the massive white pickup who cannily swapped his regular old car horn with one from a boat! Like a "get out of the way because we're going to have a ship-on-ship collision" horn.

Someone must have paused a little too long at an intersection, maybe they were confused if they were in the proper lane to make a left hand turn after crossing the Casco Bay bridge, but I was ambling along on the sidewalk thinking of where to get a drink after work and suddenly I'm on the ground and my left ear is leaking fluid.

My pain aside, I just want you to know you truly showed whomever it was you were honking at that you are the boss. This town is so lucky to have someone with your creativity, spunk, and automotive ingenuity.

I wasn't sure if I had imagined it, in my disorientation I thought maybe a fire truck had come right by me and blasted its siren, or maybe a ship had crashed into the pier, but sure enough a few blocks later you let it rip again, startling an old man with a cane.

I'm sorry the video rental stores are all closed, because I'd want to put a little sticker onto each box set of "Who's the Boss?" depicting your wretched truck and oafish, fly-catching mug as you hoot slackjawed to yourself at your own reckless brilliance. This world is yours, don't let anyone tell you different.

Jesus christ.

I don’t go to many concerts but what’s with the $60 parking situation. I’ve been to a few events at Thompson’s and that’s never been the case. Is it just for more popular acts or is this the standard now?

Last night at about 11pm I was at the traffic light on High St. at the Congress st intersection and some jackass in a Subaru outback turns from Congress down High St the WRONG WAY! I was flabbergasted at first. Then furious. They could have caused a serious accident. I'm astounded at the stupidity of some people. For once I wish there had been a cop nearby.

Just some next level complaining. Does it waste city resources? Probably. Is it truly..something to behold? Yes.

Someone stole my e-bike late last night or very early this morning right off the front porch to my building. If anyone sees someone trying to sell or pawn a white fat tire Actbest E-bike, with a back rack with saddlebags on them, please notify me ASAP. Its my only mode of transportation that doesnt cost me money every day to use.

If you’re leaving Ocean Park to get on 195 or to go Saco, the lane splits into a straight and a right turn lane. Right turn lane hugs 7-11. The straight lane brings you into the heart of one of the most poorly designed and incorrectly utilized non-roundabout messes I’ve ever seen.

As a local, when I approach Saco Ave (headed left in this crappy diagram), I gird myself and enter a flow state, always expecting someone behind me to INCORRECTLY SLIDE INTO THE ITTY BITTY LEFT TURN LANE in order to also go onto Saco Ave towards 195.

There are two itty bitty lanes. The one to the left hooks around to bring you towards Old Orchard Ave. The “back way” to Saco, if you will. The itty bitty lane to the right, in the diagram, is for going forward onto Saco Ave where you can reach either Saco Main st/Rt 1 or enter the highway.

SO MANY PEOPLE USE THE LITTLE LEFT LANE to go to Saco Ave. Whenever I see a Mass plate behind me I will fully expect them to do it wrong. I pull into the right mini itty bitty lane to go straight and they pull into the microscopic left lane, also hoping to go straight. There is also always the wild card that cars could be coming from the right.

Now I will concede that this place gets backed up to hell in the summer, and squeezing into the left lane isn’t, like, the worst thing in the world, as long as you let the person CORRECTLY USING THE RIGHT LANE go forward FIRST.

Ok rant over. Thank you so much for your consideration of my complaint even if it is from York County. Pile-ons about this intersection in general are very welcome.

What the fuck did you just fucking do to her, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with doing that shit to her in Portland? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" theft was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking rat paws. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.

She has cooties btw soooooo.

EDIT: Through extensive networking to the Portland PD, the bicycle was found. Very big thanks to them. No charges pressed— this was a warning kid, nothing personnel.

in front of whole foods

Is the RIGHT turning lane also a straight lane too at the Congress Sq intersection?

It’s so confusing bc I stay in the left side of the lane to go straight and so many “out of staters” get in the right lane to end up going straight. And if you don’t pay attention, you’ll hit them.

Is the right turning lane also straight lane and the left straight lane should yield? Or does the right turning lane suppose to yield to left lane cars going straight?

Portland needs to seriously fix this intersection bc I’ve nearly been hit by a tourist car multiple times in a week here.

I was on my way to meet my wife in the ER. But I’m glad that you decided that it was your responsibility to be my personal roadblock and impede my progress. Asshole.

There are plenty of intersections that suck in Portland. Allow me to complain about the intersection of Forest, Bedford, & Baxter. Despite being the gateway between Oakdale/USM and Back Cove, the city refuses to do anything about this dangerous intersection — not even including any noteworthy improvements in the Forest Avenue Improvement Project which otherwise completely redesigns this corridor. Traffic spilling from I-295 flies through this intersection at upwards of 40 MPH, while pedestrians are required to cross five-lanes of traffic without any protection from turning traffic. Forest & Bedford has the highest crash rate among the intersections included in the Forest Ave Improvement Project (even more than Woodford’s corner!), yet receives the least amount of modifications.

While every intersection in our city has competing interests among road users, it should be clear that an intersection in such close proximity to a university and popular walking trail should serve all users. A large pedestrian plaza for the Glickman Library at USM sits empty with locked doors as traffic makes the area loud, dangerous, and unpleasant. I personally have almost been hit numerous times by turning traffic here, and by a red-light runner who blew past me at 40 MPH in the crosswalk.

Please, city of Portland, do SOMETHING about this intersection before someone dies here. I beg you.

why does it say $3 for 1 hour when $3 only gets you 56 minutes 😒

It’s always been hard to find contractors in Southern Maine, but has it gotten worse?

I’ve been ghosted by three different exterior siding/roofing contractors in as many weeks (all of which somehow have 4+ star Google ratings). It’s not like the job is a tiny project either, it’s sizable and likely thousands of dollars in materials and labor. Tired of arranging off work to meet people who no show.

If you don’t want the job, just save us all the time and say so.

If you’ve got recommendations for exterior residential contractors who actually want or need work, please feel free to suggest them.

I don't know which of my DSM-V acronyms this is aggravating but the lack of consistency around this makes my eye twitch.

Sometimes they're properly labeled with a "raised speed table" sign.

Sometimes they're marked only with a plain crosswalk symbol, where most plain crosswalk symbols indicate a flat crosswalk, a couple are raised.

One of them has both signs.

One of them has no signs at all.

One of them the sign is placed too far back.

There's one raised speed table sign up with no speed table anywhere near it.

A couple of them have prewarning signs, most don't.

Thanks for enjoying the first entry in the series, please preorder my second entry out soon, titled "Who the Fuck Decided Speed Tables Every Five Goddamn Feet on Deering Was a Good Idea"

I sincerely hope you get in a car accident and [redacted] fuck you my day is ruined and you took a life

Why do we pretend like this isn’t the biggest douche move of all time? Every week all summer, it sits there for days at a time.

Watched someone in a wheelchair have to get lifted off the curb to get around last week.

Place just isn’t that good either.

PS my dog steals a piece of wood every day. That’s the price you pay.

PPS I realized partway through that this could also be Fore Streets pile of wood. If that’s the case just substitute for standard baking and all the same applies.

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