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The4BellsLondon

Mar 24th 2010 3:58 am

Re: How far do you drive to get to work...?

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Originally Posted by Jingsamichty (Post 8444470)

Jeez, that's true here too. I think planners must panic if you can go 300 yards without traffic lights.

Oi don't diss the planners - we don't put the traffic lights in , or even decide where they go - that's the Traffic Engineers job! ;)

R I C H

Mar 24th 2010 4:01 am

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Originally Posted by G77 (Post 8444603)

They've decided to start sticking in roundabouts here - fiver says I see someone driving round it the wrong way within a week of it opening....

A cabbie on Vancouver Island merrily drove me the wrong way round a roundabout. The oncoming truck wasn't too amused, but the cabbie shrugged it off and took to the sidewalk.

Andrew74

Mar 24th 2010 8:55 am

Re: How far do you drive to get to work...?

I live near Mississauga Road/Bovaird on the west of Brampton and travel to Leslie/407 in Thornhill most days! Depending on traffic and weather, could be a good run in 45 minutes or a couple of hours! Only use the 407 for part of the trip each way as adds and extra couple of hundred dollars a month to the travel! Would love a job in Mississauga/Brampton!

The4BellsLondon

Mar 24th 2010 5:06 pm

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Originally Posted by G77 (Post 8444603)

They've decided to start sticking in roundabouts here - fiver says I see someone driving round it the wrong way within a week of it opening....

no no no - Traffic Circles!!

dbd33

Mar 24th 2010 11:44 pm

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Originally Posted by Andrew74 (Post 8445675)

Why not a home in Thornhill?

Partially discharged

Mar 24th 2010 11:50 pm

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Originally Posted by The4BellsLondon (Post 8444765)

Oi don't diss the planners - we don't put the traffic lights in , or even decide where they go - that's the Traffic Engineers job! ;)

and most traffic engineers I know run for cover if there is a microphone around at a public meeting...and leave it up to the planners to deliver the bad news.

pproehann

Mar 25th 2010 12:03 am

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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 8444485)

Roundabouts and draining boards, fundamental building blocks of a civilized society almost completely absent in Canada.

Aussies takin Roundabouts everywhere as they can't cope
and putting trafic lights in

dbd33

Mar 25th 2010 12:41 am

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Originally Posted by pproehann (Post 8447661)

Aussies takin Roundabouts everywhere as they can't cope
and putting trafic lights in

I don't recall seeing any great number of roundabouts, to me the distinctive feature of Australian roads was that the runaway truck ramps were called "Vehicular Arrestation Beds" or something equally high faluting. That seemed a gobful to pray for when your brakes are failing.

Souvy

Mar 25th 2010 1:24 am

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Originally Posted by shamrock249 (Post 8447632)

Personally I think the traffic roundabouts are great. Canada has some but very rare. I'm just back from a vist to Belfast and am always impressed with the traffic flow at these intersections. Canada should have more.

A bit of a bugger to plough, though.

Piff Poff

Mar 25th 2010 1:31 am

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Originally Posted by G77 (Post 8444603)

They've decided to start sticking in roundabouts here - fiver says I see someone driving round it the wrong way within a week of it opening....

:rofl:They put a roundabout in at Sylvan Lake, within the 1st week someone had driven straight over the top of it and took out the foundation for the fancy Sylvan Lake sign. Don't think it did his truck much good.:rofl:

dbd33

Mar 25th 2010 1:33 am

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Originally Posted by Souvy (Post 8447833)

A bit of a bugger to plough, though.

I don't see that this should be a problem. Just use mini-roundabouts, smallish circles in the middle of the junction.

Souvy

Mar 25th 2010 1:40 am

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Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 8447864)

I don't see that this should be a problem. Just use mini-roundabouts, smallish circles in the middle of the junction.

Mini ones, no. Bigger ones, with lots of exits would require a certain degree of plough-ballet.

Enough talk of snow. We have a flower in the back yard. I shall locate my shorts.

Novocastrian

Mar 25th 2010 1:46 am

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Originally Posted by Souvy (Post 8447883)

Enough talk of snow. We have a flower in the back yard. I shall locate my shorts.

I'd wait until Monday if I were you.

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/wea...maps_savedcity

Souvy

Mar 25th 2010 1:52 am

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Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 8447903)

I'd wait until Monday if I were you.

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/wea...maps_savedcity

That forecast is bizarre. How do you go from +10 to -15 in a matter of hours?

JamesM

Mar 25th 2010 1:57 am

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Originally Posted by The4BellsLondon (Post 8444765)

Oi don't diss the planners - we don't put the traffic lights in , or even decide where they go - that's the Traffic Engineers job! ;)

You have to have a wicked sense of humour to be a traffic planner.

My brother is one and everytime I curse a set of lights I know he is laughing at me.

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