Alright then, once I can see…but three times on a Saturday afternoon is a bit much!!!! And twice in less than 5 minutes! I’m of course talking about our fine Halifax drivers changing lanes without signaling or looking into those useful attachments on the side of cars we humans call mirrors. I just happened to be in the lane you want to be in and had to do some very defensive driving to avoid getting creamed (all 3 times I speak of). The lady merging onto Hwy 101 was especially gracious in giving me a millisecond to swerve out of her way, luckily the far left lane wasn’t occupied (if it wasn’t we’d have collided). I can’t read your mind, if your going straight in the lane you’re in, fine, but try to give some indication before you blindly whip over to a lane. You might not be so lucky next time…..or the other driver for that matter. And no, I wasn’t speeding or driving like an ass. Just trying to get where I have to in one piece.
—Another Boring Traffic Bitcher
This article appears in Sep 10-16, 2009.
Defensive driving schools teach you to get out of peoples blind spots as quick as possible. If I remember correctly they call it a “Space cushion”. That way you don’t have to rely on other people to do the correct thing before a lane change.
i don’t think motorists in this city know what a turn signal is used for… at least, i rarely see drivers actually use it.
this makes walking/cycling more ‘interesting’, since we non-motorists never KNOW what the idiot driver is about to do next… go straight (as you’d expect) OR maybe turn left (no signal of course) and smash into an oncoming car/cyclist or turn right into a pedestrian in a crosswalk (who assumed motorist was going straight b/c they did not SIGNAL!).
yup, there are lots of idiot drivers in this city, and many of them should not have been granted a licence to drive a motor vehicle in the first place.
I can’t believe the sheer stupidity of drivers in this city. If they’re not in a fucking rush, they think you have mental telepathy. They’ll cut you off in a heartbeat or block traffic by being in the middle of the intersection on a red light. I’m all for traffic cameras – man, I’d love to see some of these impatient, clueless cunts fined for some of the shit they pull.
You have to wonder how those types of people make it as far in life as they do without falling down a manhole or something.
Lane jumpers are my bane. For the most part they assume this practice simply to get ahead a few cars. Best practice, unless they’re merging off a ramp, don’t let them in by keeping just enough space between you and the car ahead of you.
And when they do use blinkers, it’s always at the last minute, like getting behind a car in the left lane and then having a left turn blinker come on after you’ve stopped. Maybe if the blinker knob was neon coloured, people might notice and use them more, if only for a couple of months.
I swear a signal light is an option on some cars. I agree with the OP & whatnot – people are stupid.