I am standing with Shelia at the intersection of Huntington and Copley, watching the traffic while waiting to cross the street into the Copley Square mall. But waiting makes little sense. No one else waits for anything in Boston. The traffic here is the absolute worst I have ever seen. Streets have lanes but no one drives in them.
Roadsides have parking places, but everyone just double parks wherever they want to.
There are pedestrian signals, but they are universally disregarded. Intersections have traffic lights, but taxis and buses run them routinely. Forget about the common driver courtesy that we all learned in our youth. The result is a cacophony of cars, taxis, buses, bicycles, rollerbladers, and pedestrians all seemingly oblivious to each other's presence. My mouth is dry, my eyes watery, and my brain hurts.