Q: I have driven for quite a few years and currently provide ride-sharing services. However, today I am afraid to be on the roads.

It’s as if drugs had been aerosolized across the roads. Far more than typical of late — people cut each other off, weave in and out of traffic, cut others off, roar up upon other’s bumpers, squeeze aggressively into lanes and act as if they were late to get somewhere.

Has anyone else noted the increased tensions on the road today; or, am I just getting old?

Larry Shoemaker

San Jose

A: Wiser perhaps. Transportation officials rank San Francisco-Oakland as having the most stressed-out drivers in the nation, with Los Angeles at No. 2, San Jose No. 7 and Riverside No. 8.

Just relax, go with the flow and use your blinkers. After that, driving could be a piece of cake.

Q: I’m on my scooter in Scotts Valley and I pull up to a light where there is a lane to go straight or turn left which I am in. There is a woman in a Volt on the other side of the double yellow line — the wrong side of the road — next to me waiting for the light to turn. I look over at her and she’s texting.

I motion for her to roll down her window which she reluctantly does. I then ask her if she realizes she’s sitting in the lane for oncoming traffic. She then rolls down the driver’s side window and looks down.

I tell her “no, no, the double yellow line is on this side of your car.”

I was turning left so I had to wait for her to go straight so she didn’t run me over. This happened right in front of a grade school that was just about to let out.

Mike Lopes

Ben Lomond

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A: This is why texting is illegal at stop lights.

Q: Please help. The city of Campbell is actually considering building an In-N-Out Burger just a few feet downstream of a freeway off-ramp. The Highway 17-Hamilton Avenue corridor serves many far reaching communities and is part of our critical infrastructure. Keeping it flowing is important for our safety and livelihood.

Adding an establishment that stacks long lines of vehicles, often flowing into public streets, would have a detrimental impact. Citizens in the area are organizing to fight it and started a petition at Hamilton17.org. It has over 1,000 signatures so far.

The overwhelming feedback can be summed up in one word: INSANE.

Karen Petersen

A: OK, let’s see what happens.

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