Just because someone or even a hand full of people are grieving doesn't give them the right to disrupt or disturb other peoples' lives.
By that logic, it is fine to disrupt MORE peoples' lives because of something they wish to do? Makes no sense to me. Living people should always have priority over the dead, not the other way around. People really don't need to drive in a long, slow line from the funeral home to the grave yard. They can get the address and find their own way there. It really isn't that hard to do, especially with today's technology.
Doesn't matter. More people are affected in negative ways in a busy urban area due to processions than the people actually in the processions. Processions should not be allowed in high traffic urban areas because of the impact it has on the higher volume of people in the traffic they create.
I like how the best argument you can come up with is an attack on what you think my intelligence level is.
Finally. I don't know why they always go so slow on the highway or otherwise. Living people have places to go and things to do. Ok, someone died, I get it, I have had people close to me die too and it is not fun to deal with. I just don't get why they have to inconvenience dozens if not hundreds of other people who are still alive and may possibly be late for work or something because of a slow moving funeral procession that blocks entire intersections or lanes causing other back ups.
"132. (1) No motor vehicle shall be driven on a highway at such a slow rate of speed as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic thereon except when the slow rate of speed is necessary for safe operation having regard to all the circumstances. R.S.O. 1990, c. H.8, s. 132 (1)."
I would hate to be a parent who raised such a self center prick.
I think next time you see a funeral procession, roll your windows and yell at them for the inconvenience. Do the same when your parents died as well.
That's it. I've lost all hope. Multiply this by 34.Just because someone or even a hand full of people are grieving doesn't give them the right to disrupt or disturb other peoples' lives.
Note the exception, note that is why we have traffic control officers to determine the safe operation.
Are these long trains inconvenient or not? Even those that run slick as goose **** are a pain in the butt. Normally that wouldn't be a problem because we're all happy to make concessions, at our inconvenience, for the good of the community at large. Except we don't live in communities anymore. At this point it's like somebody willfully causing a traffic jamb. Is that to be applauded? Is there a line in the sand? What if the deceased was not even from around there? What if the procession was three times as long? What if there were four other funerals processions in progress simultaneously? And then there was a five alarm fire and lives were at stake? I guess all these questions are null a void if it was your parents procession. Because tradition?
But seriously, I'd like to know what the true story is with this particular situation. Cops don't give out tickets for no reason.
The exception is there for weather related issues (snow, rain, sun low on the horizon), oversize vehicles, and traffic congestion (otherwise everyone on the 400 highways at rush hour would be "guilty" of impeding the person behind them). It's not meant for special interest events like funerals, protests, etc.
Say who? You?
Traffic control officer is there to ensure safe operation. Stop making stuff up.
Loled are you sure about that? Or you have been living under a rock?
Regardless the proper thing to do is the dumb cop radio in to request the traffic controll officer to speed up. Giving them tickets is just a ********* move to prove you have power