To the crazy woman who couldn’t wait for me to cross the road yesterday in Highfield Park: I hope you caught me flipping you off as you honked your horn and squealed past me all the while screaming for me to get off the road (BTW your passenger looked pretty embarrassed as he hid his face). It was a crosswalk, and you had a stop sign. As I said last night, stop means stop. —Just Walkin’ Here!
This article appears in Jul 28 – Aug 3, 2016.
Drivers like that deserve the Roundabout of Hell with a greased exit that flies off the edge of the Cabot Trail.
Her trunk was probably full of stolen meat to trade for fentanyl, so she was in a hurry to get to her dealer.
In most cases around HRM, a stop sign is merely suggestive.
For many drivers their car is their own little world. And the outside is an afterthought, especially pedestrians as many drivers have hardly ever walked much on sidewalks etc. So they do not know what it is like to be a pedestrian. And they do not often give a damn anyway.
I saw a woman drive through a red light one day blowing her horn and waving frantically for the pedestrians in the crosswalk to get out of the way. A couple of them had to run out of her way. She was having engine problems and the car was sputtering so instead of pulling over like a sensible person might she decided to hightail it for home – red lights and pedestrians be damned. Scary that there are so many people like that on the road.
Halifax is the worst city for pedestrians that I’ve ever lived in and has the worst, most inattentive drivers who pay little to no attention to what colour the light is when they tear through an intersection and are oblivious to the “walk” signal. PAY ATTENTION you bunch of fuckwits!!! Crosswalks are for people and the walk signal is not a challenge for you to see how many pedestrians you can kill or maim while you’re in such a bloody hurry to get from A to B.