At the foot of Windsor Street, society sorts itself into two types of people.
1. The type who wait patiently in the left left-turning lane to proceed into a lane on the Bedford Highway that continues indefinitely
2. The type who veer out of the lineup to pass everyone, straddling two lanes all the way down the hill, to access that short right-hand lane, which then necessitates merging back into the first lane and cutting off the people they just passed.
Why Halifax has so many lanes that start and end within 100m of an intersection is beyond me.
There is also a third type, which indiscriminately wanders across solid lines after the intersection, at no obvious benefit to themselves or anyone else. —Waiting patiently (today)
This article appears in Nov 10-16, 2016.
It’s our way of getting back at Bedford for being so nice…
That intersection really needs to be a roundabout/traffic circle/whatever you want to call it.
It is really the fault of the designers of the intersections, not the drivers.
And there is another way to look at this. Why are Halifax drivers so reluctant to use all the lanes available to them? I’m constantly befuddled by the long lines of people backed way up in a single lane while the lane beside them remains completely empty. It’s bizarre.
(Note: a closed lane on the highway is a different story. The jerks who speed past the rest of the cars that have merged over to the open lane and are waiting their turn to get past whatever obstruction lies ahead – construction or an accident, usually – deserve to be killed with fire.)
“YIELD” means Merge in HRM as well. I guess in HRM if you are coming off a ramp the people already driving on highway must slow down to let them in.Stupid!
Don’t get me started on how dumb 4 way and 3 way stops can get for folks in HRM.