Interesting take on the city

[booboo]

http://davedoyle.blogspot.com/2005/06/outsiders-perspective-of-seattle.html

[MattG]

I don't agree with everything this guy says, but I thought this was pretty funny --

Seattle drivers are the worst in the country
Seriously. Not Boston. Not New York. Not LA. Seattle. I didn't say "most aggressive." I said "worst."
Traffic is terrible in Seattle. Part of it is just the city's geography; there's only so much you can do when you have a downtown on a narrow strip of land jammed between an ocean inlet and a massive lake. There's only two bridges going over the lake to the trendiest suburbs (one of which is I-90. If you ever wondered where you'd end up if you got on the Mass Pike and kept going the answer is about a half-mile from Safeco Field). Now throw in the fact these roads were built long before Seattle hit a growth explosion.
But then there's the underlying cause -- the worst drivers in America. They are so ridiculously passive that no one can get anywhere, ever. All it takes is one slow, stubborn driver to snarl traffic. Four lanes in each direction on I-5, and some latte-soaked idiot will go 45 MPH down the fast lane; and someone in a tuff-looking pickup will box you in on your right, and if you even thought of going around it all, there's inevitably a logging truck or military vehicle in the slow lanes. When it rains, they drive like it has never rained here before; when the sun comes out, everyone slams on the breaks. Traffic congestion would be greatly eased if all the slow-moving jacka sses just picked up the pace a bit.
That's strictly a Washington thing, too. The second you cross the border into British Columbia people drive normally and at some point in Oregon they start driving like Californians.