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OPP air enforcement in Dufferin / Caledon
- Thread starter matthew
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you'd be surprised... my buddy and i were coming back from blue mountain, and got a RIDE check in shelbourne...
he was a perma-pothead (i don't really smoke) so he always had had weed at some point during the day and/or smelled like it.
anyhow that's how he got a DUI, which kinda changed him for the best
Noise factor: Squeak, thump thump, vroom Repeat for every car.
A few sparks I'm sure. If they had ice and snow it could get interesting.
And emissions. I have noticed that the speed humps that have become popular are absolutely brutal at the posted speed limit. Speed bumps at the posted speed limit are loud but not a big deal.
Thanks. The first video is interesting. It shows that the speed shown is tracking the crosshair not a vehicle. If in court with an aircraft ticket, you need to see the video. A bump on the joystick moved speed up to over 300 km/h. Wouldn't be hard for a cop to give the joystick a wiggle to generate a 172 charge.
EDIT:
Live speed is green. There is a white speed with time/distance etc that may be the one used in court. I don't know how white speed gets captured.
Malks
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Because it's where there is a great deal of speeding, dangerous driving and passing using the centre left turn lane.
There is also a higher than average accident rate along the entire section from Brampton to north of Orangeville. This strikes me as odd, because I drove this road when it was just a two lane road from Caledon to Orangeville and the current four lane plus left turn lane is far safer than what was there previously. It's just the quality of driver has decreased over the years and everyone is in a friggin hurry.
Because the design of the road (which has evolved over time, and not always in a thoughtful way) makes it comfortable to travel at 100 km/h, and everyone does that or more. And the traffic volume is high.
It probably should be a dual carriageway with a 90+ speed limit (think 35/115), and it probably should reroute around the villages instead of through them, and at least some of the junctions should be roundabouts, but all of that is expensive. Several of the roads that cross it have only stop signs at the crossing road, and it can be perilous to make a left turn from any of those onto 10 or to go straight through on the crossing road.
35/115 had similar problems. When they built the central barrier many years ago, this blocked going straight or left from such cross roads, so they built bridges to allow that traffic to go over without having to deal with the 35/115 traffic. Not cheap, but no more head-on crashes and fewer crashes at junctions.
6N from Burlington to Morriston (401) is mostly 4+1. It's rated as one of the most dangerous roads in the Province.
Chris-CJ
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Ever try a left turn onto 10 while exiting from the FOC road?
(It is dicing with your life!)
Left off Conc. 7 onto Hwy 6N every day. Same thing, different letters/numbers.
Yup, same situation.
Malks
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I've tried that turn once or twice, and yes that can be very difficult/dangerous due to the speed of SB traffic coming down Caledon Mountain. The added bonus at that location is the number of loaded gravel trucks hurtling downhill. Since I'm a person that looks to avoid that kind of danger I have modified my routes to limit unprotected left turns as much as possible.
Any conc. Entering 6 is a roll of the dice
BigEvilDoer
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Used to love those in my F150… right between the wheels, zero bump…
Doesn’t work so well with my Nissan Frontier.
BigEvilDoer
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Yup. A 4 lane road, with a centre turning lane all without a barrier between oncoming traffic lanes.
Also one of the higher insurance rate roads (if you live on it) in the province.
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