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A passing lane 300 feet before a light?
A 70 zone in front of a high school and a 50 zone in Burnside where there are nothing but trees?
GREAT message that one sends, you fucks. —Wacko Roados
This article appears in Aug 12-18, 2010.
16 Comments
If highschool kids can’t figure out how to safely be near a road then I don’t mind if they get hit. And isn’t Burnside mostly industrial? Where are the trees?
all of the *new part of burnside, behind dartmouth crossing has hardly and buildings yet and is a fifty sometimes with as many as four lanes. I agree the fifty zones up there could be 80
agreed agreed agreed. so tired of insane speed limits
I don’t mind the speed limits, but I do mind the people who don’t even at least drive it. Driving 50 in an 80km/hr zone with your head swiveling back and forth just pisses people off.
Then there’s the idiots who go 90 in a 50….
like I did yesterday.
got pulled over though I think I scared the crap outta some dude on a crotch rocket.
If you’re reading this blue bike guy near the roundabout… my bad.
Popo gave me the riot act….. I’ve learned my lesson.
“Passing lane 300 feet before a light?” I know what you meant, but practically speaking every left-turn-only lane in HRM does double-duty as a passing lane right up to about one car’s length before the intersection.
And while we’re at it, our gifted traffic engineers have managed to squeeze *intersecting* highway on & off ramps into no more than a hundred yards in more than one spot – your example is indicative of only mild stupidity on the part of our road designers, not the full retardation that one sees evidenced elsewhere.
I am still trying to find that speed limit sign after merging on the highway in Dartmouth from half a year ago. If any of you find it let me know.
Most speed limits are set at least 10 – 20 km/hr lower than they could be. Our divided 100-series highways, for example, are engineered for vehicles to go up to 140 km/hr on them, but if you do you’re going 30 km/hr over the speed limit and being an idiot endangering lives and get a big ticket by some do-gooder cop with demerit points. Even some undivided two-lane highways in parts of Australia have speed limits of 140 km/hr. It’s just our overly-cautious nanny-state culture here in North America I think more than anything, plus cops love giving you speeding tickets where speed limits are set especially unreasonably low.
Is it true that cops have a quota?
Also, is it true that they won’t stop you if you’re within 10km over the posted speed limit?
I heard it was 10% of the limit you can get away with….
which sounds about right.
I knew cops in my old hometown that wouldn’t adjust the radar when they got off the highway so as long as you were doing less than 100 even while on (albeit rural) 50-80 km/hr roads you were fine.
Ah I see.
I have a buddy who got a speeding ticket going 57/kmph in a 50 zone. I believe it was around 187 bones so yes you can get a ticket doing only ten clicks about the limit. You think they would give you a break with those ones which makes me ask too… Is there a quota they have to reach? I doubt there is but why would they dick poeple doing 7km over the limit??
just an aside: don’t get caught without your license, they will fine you and you don’t have the 24 hr. grace period anymore
I think it’s 10% over the speed limit… so those extra 7 clicks did him in. That totally blows s_n. I speed all the time, I just I’m just lucking and haven’t gotten caught. I’m way too impatient when I drive, and I do a lot of it between here and NB. I don’t speed in town though… just on the boring, boring, highway.
PG, I didn’t have my license on me either…
but with my immaculate driving record, he let me slide.
It was the first time I’ve ever been pulled over in all the 11 years as a motorist.
I must have had a horseshoe up my ass…
or got one of the few, nice popo’s this city has to offer.
All the good road designers moved to Alberta. Our roads were designed by the leftovers.