Annoying things you encounter on Canadian roads
#31
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Re: Annoying things you encounter on Canadian roads
No I don't go round offering that!
Aren't they right in ya face anyway? nothing mysterious about a pair of big knockers knocking around!
#32
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Re: Annoying things you encounter on Canadian roads
now thats real manly... spits out good tea at the thought of a pair of boobies
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Re: Annoying things you encounter on Canadian roads
#34
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This board is not an appropriate place for flirtation between posters. Kindly knock it off.
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#38
Re: Annoying things you encounter on Canadian roads
The driving here in BC is some of the worst I've encountered, some of it is made worse by certain rules of the road here like:
Right turns on red lights:
1. Person making the turn flies out into the road without looking.
2. Other traffic moves into the lane that the person making the turn is about to turn into, even though it's a two lane road with no traffic. Very dangerous.
The 4-way stop:
I've seen a couple of near collisions where the person turning left at one of these forgets that they have forfeited their right to go first.
Constant lane merging:
1. People go right to the very end of the merge before budging in.
2. People have plenty of space to yield to you to let you in but scrape past you instead forcing you to stop at the end of the merge.
Left turns at traffic lights:
You're about to turn left, and the light goes Amber. You think, I'd better get out the intersection, then someone flies past through the amber towards you instead of stopping. Again, very dangerous.
Right turns on red lights:
1. Person making the turn flies out into the road without looking.
2. Other traffic moves into the lane that the person making the turn is about to turn into, even though it's a two lane road with no traffic. Very dangerous.
The 4-way stop:
I've seen a couple of near collisions where the person turning left at one of these forgets that they have forfeited their right to go first.
Constant lane merging:
1. People go right to the very end of the merge before budging in.
2. People have plenty of space to yield to you to let you in but scrape past you instead forcing you to stop at the end of the merge.
Left turns at traffic lights:
You're about to turn left, and the light goes Amber. You think, I'd better get out the intersection, then someone flies past through the amber towards you instead of stopping. Again, very dangerous.
#39
Re: Annoying things you encounter on Canadian roads
from http://roadrules.ca/content/right-way-four-way-stop
.....typically at a four way stop a driver is confronted by vehicles proceeding from three other directions. To meet this challenge, there are three basic rules governing who has the right-of-way. Timing is everything: the first vehicle to come to a complete stop at the intersection has the right-of-way. If two vehicles arrive at the same time and are facing each other, the left-turning vehicle must yield to the oncoming vehicle. If two vehicles arrive at the same time and are perpendicular to each other, the vehicle on the right has the right-of way. A driver is “the driver on the right with the right-of-way” if that driver has no other driver to the right side.
edit: the tricky bit arises if all four vehicles arrive and stop at the same time ....but provided everybody does stop - which they should - there is no need for a near collision, as nobody is speeding through the junction anyway.
Last edited by Alberta_Rose; Oct 7th 2011 at 11:56 pm.
#42
Re: Annoying things you encounter on Canadian roads
I don't think I recalled a rule about discussing puppies but you never know - it could be right at the bottom and you never read it cos you're bored of rules by then?
#43
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Perhaps, being intelligent, he was also applying irony?
#44
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ooooh how I love your sense of humour you educated hottie you