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The Bad Drivers of Ontario Thread
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No need to go to the trouble of typing out or-on-the-phone. It's assumed.
Exactly and who knows.
You know when I take my 100% attention off my driving, I do so on a straight section of road with nobody behind me or coming at me from the opposing direction.
Probably why I am accident and claim free in 50+ years of driving.
Also why I coined the phase "they got their licence out of a box of Cracker Jacks" None of these clowns would cut it back in the days when I was a flight instructor..
Also why I have a Stryker T-2 Titanium Nail in my tibia due to a cell phone yapping kid in his car who ran into my "stopped-in-traffic motorcycle". I was stopped at the time so that still makes me accident-free.
What about the cargo? I assume the shipper arranges to transfer the load to a safe vehicle. Crane or loading service? Really touchy with perishable goods. The original shipping rate was good.
I don't need to see out of the driver's side window/mirror. When I change lanes the cars around me scatter. No problem.
Failure to be able to see out window and side mirror charges are from that stop. The careless and failure to remain are from the previous hit and run the window and mirror were broken in.
Failure to be able to see out window and side mirror charges are from that stop. The careless and failure to remain are from the previous hit and run the window and mirror were broken in.
Shouldn't have been operating an unsafe vehicle then. The cost is on the courier.
Today I saw two Lamborghini Aventadors on The Gardiner. The first went straight onto the QEW. The second took the ramp onto 427 and damned near took my front bumper with him. Thinks that horsepower and paddle shifters are a substitute for shoulder checks and driving skill.
I still beat him to the 427/401 split.
Audio removed because no one needs to hear my rendition of "Can't Hurry Love", followed by sailor level swearing.
I still beat him to the 427/401 split.
Audio removed because no one needs to hear my rendition of "Can't Hurry Love", followed by sailor level swearing.
No audio made me sad.
A follow-up to my "I'm the idiot" post in this thread, from a while back:
If you drive in Brampton and don't want to be the idiot, like me, be aware that I just saw another stealth reduction in a speed limit. The limit on Balmoral past Bramalea Secondary School, at Balmoral and Bramalea Road, used to be 60Kmh. It has been reduced to 40 Kmh with no prior notice and no "New" signage, inthe same way that I previously described for Eastbourne Drive. I should also mention that some time ago, also without notice, Bramalea Road past BSS was also reduced from 60 Kmh to 50 Kmh, with no "New" notice. They did, however, eerect a sign to say that a new speed camera will be going up on Bramalea Rd. in that section.
I have now seen 4 speed cameras on my route to get groceries, where there used to be just 1. I didn't want Patrick Brown as mayor in the first place and now he's going whole hog on revenue generation. If it wasn't about revenue, they'd be posting signs to indicate the changes in speed limit.
If you drive in Brampton and don't want to be the idiot, like me, be aware that I just saw another stealth reduction in a speed limit. The limit on Balmoral past Bramalea Secondary School, at Balmoral and Bramalea Road, used to be 60Kmh. It has been reduced to 40 Kmh with no prior notice and no "New" signage, inthe same way that I previously described for Eastbourne Drive. I should also mention that some time ago, also without notice, Bramalea Road past BSS was also reduced from 60 Kmh to 50 Kmh, with no "New" notice. They did, however, eerect a sign to say that a new speed camera will be going up on Bramalea Rd. in that section.
I have now seen 4 speed cameras on my route to get groceries, where there used to be just 1. I didn't want Patrick Brown as mayor in the first place and now he's going whole hog on revenue generation. If it wasn't about revenue, they'd be posting signs to indicate the changes in speed limit.
Those are the ones where douggie should kick municipal ass. Either provide an engineering study that justifies the speed limit change and information on the extensive efforts made to notify the public or your transfer payment drops by double the value of the tickets issued.
There's an increasing number of drivers in Brampton who are dealing with this by driving 40 km/h everywhere on main roads and 30 km/h everywhere on residential streets.
I know "frustration" never wins relative to "think of the children" but ... this is frustrating. And I'm the bad guy for saying so.
I know "frustration" never wins relative to "think of the children" but ... this is frustrating. And I'm the bad guy for saying so.
That seems to be all of Toronto, and the surrounding area. I love going under 60 in a 100 when there’s nothing in front of you. Remember when those guys were charged for going the speed limit?
Addition to my warning: Because of the ticket I recently got for doing what I thought was still the limit in that stealth reduced limit area, I enabled limit warnings in Waze. This change was so recent that Waze was telling me the limit was still 50 Kmh.
EDIT - Oh, and if anyone here listens to Jerry Agar in 1010, I was the person he misquoted saying that, "I was only doing 1 Kmh over the 10 Kmh grace we're given" on Thursday morning. I quite plainly told him that the limit had been dropped without any warning. This was my email to him:
"Hey Jerry,
Brampton has something like 180 speed cameras, at this point. I'm pretty judicious about my speed and have never been hit by them. Well, at least not until a couple of weeks ago. The city changed the speed limit on a road that had been 50Kmh for as long as I've lived in Brampton (it was something like 30 MPH before that, so that tells you how long I've lived there). Now it's 40 and that limit was set at the same time that they put up the camera. No "NEW" sign was erected, which is what they usually do when the limit changes. This road intersects with one that is 40 during school hours and 50 at all other times.
I got hit for 11 Kmh over the limit (1 Kmh over the old limit). OK, that's on me for not seeing the new sign, but surely the city has a duty to make such changes obvious?"
EDIT - Oh, and if anyone here listens to Jerry Agar in 1010, I was the person he misquoted saying that, "I was only doing 1 Kmh over the 10 Kmh grace we're given" on Thursday morning. I quite plainly told him that the limit had been dropped without any warning. This was my email to him:
"Hey Jerry,
Brampton has something like 180 speed cameras, at this point. I'm pretty judicious about my speed and have never been hit by them. Well, at least not until a couple of weeks ago. The city changed the speed limit on a road that had been 50Kmh for as long as I've lived in Brampton (it was something like 30 MPH before that, so that tells you how long I've lived there). Now it's 40 and that limit was set at the same time that they put up the camera. No "NEW" sign was erected, which is what they usually do when the limit changes. This road intersects with one that is 40 during school hours and 50 at all other times.
I got hit for 11 Kmh over the limit (1 Kmh over the old limit). OK, that's on me for not seeing the new sign, but surely the city has a duty to make such changes obvious?"
Malks
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I'd love to see this! Orangeville is in the process of installing two cameras which, according to their own studies, are unwarranted. This is purely for political points with a certain neighbourhood that our Deputy Mayor once lived in. The previous council dropped the town-wide limit from 50 kph to 40 kph. Then the locals began complaining that people were still driving too fast. The Town did studies on several streets and their data did not support those concerns. The one street that is getting a camera (Spencer), had just 0.3% of traffic exceeding 60 kph, there were no details given for the percentage between 50 and 60
. The other camera installation (Alder) didn't even have a traffic study, but is getting a camera just in case people start using it.I knew a delightful older lady that related a story from her youth.I'd love to see this! Orangeville is in the process of installing two cameras which, according to their own studies, are unwarranted. This is purely for political points with a certain neighbourhood that our Deputy Mayor once lived in. The previous council dropped the town-wide limit from 50 kph to 40 kph. Then the locals began complaining that people were still driving too fast. The Town did studies on several streets and their data did not support those concerns. The one street that is getting a camera (Spencer), had just 0.3% of traffic exceeding 60 kph, there were no details given for the percentage between 50 and 60
In the 1920's an elderly couple was finding it troublesome hitching up their horse to the buggy so decided to buy a car. Not knowing how to drive they hired a man to chauffeur them around.
They had trouble finding a suitable person saying, "They start off well but the next thing we knew they were racing along at 20 miles per hour."
Hmm, <checks map> I know where those two streets are in Orangeville. At least they both have a school on them, which is probably where they'll put the camera.
The main traffic using those streets, will be local residents going to and from home, and local residents driving their kids to and from school. So, any tickets that those cameras do hand out, will be mostly to the local residents themselves, getting what they asked for.
The main traffic using those streets, will be local residents going to and from home, and local residents driving their kids to and from school. So, any tickets that those cameras do hand out, will be mostly to the local residents themselves, getting what they asked for.
Local parents, picking up their kids from school, are some of the worst drivers (and parkers) that I've seen.
Mikedezo44
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Honestly no idea why they even bother putting a single 80km/hr construction zone speed limit sign on highway 400. Every single time I've been on it since they've been put up it's IMPOSSIBLE to do anywhere near that. Try doing even 100km/hr in the slow lane and you will have a truck right behind you pushing you along trying to do his 105km/hr so you're back to doing about 110. And don't even think about dropping below 100 in any other lane, you get swallowed whole from others doing 110-120 going around you on either side.
It's been that way for many years (some of them where you wouldn't see a construction worker during the year). Thankfully, OPP isn't often exploiting that turd for revenue generation. There are more people pushing 172 tickets in those zones than driving at 80 km/h.
