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One of the best ways to minimize road rage is to actually build roads, so that people are not so quick to rage on account of the ungodly mess we all find ourselves in.

Yesterday I was the recipient of it myself, and because I had come from the FTZ (foreign trade zone, Port of Houston), I had no defensive weapon in my vehicle.

There was a big cement pumper broken down at the very tippy-top of the BW-8 NB bridge over the Ship Channel, and of course there's no shoulder on that bridge, so we all squeezed over to allow law enforcement to get to the scene.

Well, several ignorant drivers had decided that they wanted to take advantage and backfill behind that law enforcement so that they could fast-track themselves past the snarl at the expense of the rest of us. When we migrated back into our lane of travel following the emergency vehicle's passage, windows got rolled down, the fists came out, obscenities began hurling, and all the rest. I was afraid it would escalate into a brawl.

Houston is a complete basket case right now, with almost every road under construction. I've seen a dramatic rise in rage incidents. This was just the latest example.