On my way home form work I have to go up South Park to get home. At the South Park/Spring Garden rd intersection heading toward Citadel Hill there are 2 lanes. One lane stops short. I am pretty sure that means the lane is a turning lane meant for people who are turning left. Am I wrong? The other lane is for people going straight or turning right onto SG rd. There is only one lane on the other side of the intersection so one of the lanes isn’t meant to go straight. So why do people in the left turning lane go straight! I get cut off almost every time I am on my way home. It is starting to piss me off. Also there are no indicating arrows on the pavement. Who do I call to get the arrows painted on the pavement? Gah it’s frustrating!
—Frustrated
This article appears in Dec 10-16, 2009.
The lanes that stop short are to allow room for buses making left turns from Spring Garden or whereever, I think that’s the case, anyway.
I agree there should be arrows.
This happens to me all the time! The right lane has a faded arrow pointing straight, the other lane is for turning.. other cars always think I’m in the wrong for going straight there, it’s very frustrating.
There are a number of streets in halifax that are like that. No one knows what lane they should be in because there are no arrows
holy crap… I guess Vaughn is going to have a busy week if anyone can ever find him….
LOL zZz…I was thinking the same thing. That guy is going to blow through his paint budget this year once we figure out how to get a hold of him.
zZz and Miles, Vaughn is only in charge of “Special Projects & Pedestrian Crosswalks.” You gotta talk to Kevin if you want something done about the pavement markings (he’s the “Signs and Pavement markings for HRM West” guy).
Check out the full list here:
http://www.halifax.ca/traffic/Who_We_Are.h…
the streets are designed that way on purpose, right lane straight or right turn, left lane straigth or left turn. No arrows so that it’s a bit of a free for all, designed to speed up traffic. you merge on the other side of the intersection when two go through at same time. Now, what is really the problem is a moron in the left lane, stopped at the light, who, when the light turns green, THEN turns on their left turn signal indicator. PLEASE do that BEFORE I drive up behind you, so that i can choose the other (faster) lane if I plan to drive straight through.
If you keep driving down there – and knowing its like that – why the fuck are you fustrated when you know it exists and people are dummies that drive there . I say check the book value on a beater buy it for less and let them hit you good – cash in the insurance and buy some nice xmas gifts with the left overs !!!
Turns out Vaughn was hiding in the crapper…. but now that we know it’s this Kevin guy, he’s back out of hiding….
Vaughn just does the assessments to see if a place warrants a crosswalk. Kevin actually gets the thing inked.
Well Kevin, you’re missing a shit load of crosswalks already there buddy.
Better get your act together or I’ll pull a Cosmo and paint them myself… the way I want.
HAHA while pulling cosmo – paint smiley faces and arrows heading upwards haha – i’ll fly back to see that !!!!