Ok, so I’m also proud that you are allowed to drive at night. And you feel confident enough to take the MacKay Bridge. But dim your fucking high beams! Bad enough coming around a turn on the Bay Road or the Waverley Road at night and someone doesn’t flick down to their low beams, but when you are on surface streets or coming over centre span on the bridges, and some astro-turd can’t dim their brights. Also shitheads on the Bedford Highway, let the fucking bus out of the stop. It’s the law to yield. During rush hour, they’re gonna get the hell out of your way. Even better, park your BMW X5 or Lexus SUV, and take Transit. You look like a wasteful douche riding solo…And think folks, three of these SUV’s end to end take up the same space as a bus, and cost about the same, but only have one passenger! —Seeing Stars
This article appears in Mar 28 – Apr 3, 2013.
I liked your end bit about the SUV’s / BMW’s “You look like a wasteful douche riding solo” – Yup, they certainly do.
But brights really aren’t that hard to deal with. Just stare towards your own passenger side head light until the car passes so their high beams don’t burn out the center of your pupils.
Now I keep hearing the song KING OF THE ROAD, in my head, Proclaimers version…..
” Even better, park your BMW X5 or Lexus SUV, and take Transit. “
Go ride yourself you dirty, lazy toadlicking hippie.
…and, as our resident, articulate spokesperson for Local 508 and Massengill Poster Boy is so fond of telling us:
“An empty bus is a happy bus”
That’s not wasteful at all, is it Zach?
I traded in my small car for an SUV, and I couldn’t be happier with my choice. With a negligible difference in gas consumption, the extra room and added benefit of being able to keep my 2, 100lb dogs in the cargo section makes my fucking day. I guess technically a Sorento is a crossover but, for my entertainment I will say its an SUV.
‘you look like a wasteful douche riding solo’. And you look like the green eyed monster of jealousy because they got the wheels and you got the shaft, errr….. I mean the bus!!!
“And think folks, three of these SUV’s end to end take up the same space as a bus, and cost about the same, but only have one passenger!”
Well holy shit… then who’s driving the other two??!?!?
Harper, you went for a KIA?
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Just as you ‘choose’ to take the bus, I choose to drive my car. I pay for the convenience. I enjoy the convenience and you won’t catch me on the bus unless I’m in a city that has figured mass transit out! As much as I’d like to spend 2 hours a day on the bus, bitching about odours, loud music, late busses etc… I think I will pass.
Transit in Halifax sucks. Time to make some more one way streets, bus lanes, and take out the left turns on major streets (One car getting out per light at a major intersection, give me a fucking break). I know Hali isn’t ideal for buses, but there are a lot of changes they could make that would decrease transit times and therefore increase rider-ship (Like not having the 2,4, and 52 all leave at the same time -_-). They need to stop patching the transit system because it’s not helping anyone. There is a reason I took transit more in other major cities and just avoid it like the plague in Halifax. I know the Halifax is afraid to change but time to grow up and start making some real decisions.
the op is bitching about bad drivers, if you are a bad driver it doesn’t matter what kind of vehicle you have. i have a japanese vehicle with room for dogs, i don’t have any right now…soon
Yup. Best warranty in the business. 7 years bumper to bumper, with the extended. And its 4WD so I don’t have to shovel the driveway. SWEET!!!!
I find these higher vehicles like SUVs or trucks with halogen lights annoying. They’re just the right height to blind me and when you get them behind you tailgating, it’s like you’re bathed in brilliant light even when the rearview mirror is flipped. Makes it hard to see properly. of course I have astygmatism which makes it worse.
Cunty cunty cunt cunt cunty cunty cunt cunt…..ahh sorry guys i be really cunty drunk now so thats why i shout swears
lemme tell you something about that damn bus law. It makes metro transit drivers into idiots. I’ve had those dirty pricks pull out in front of me when i’m at their throat. I can literally spit out of the passenger window and hit the driver in the face and suddenly the bastard makes a sharp left and pulls in front of me.
I don’t mind yielding but i’m not an impossiblist. If you can’t use a side mirror to make sure you have the correct geometry to pull off your merge, you shouldn’t be driving ANYTHING, especially a giant rectangle stuffed with piles of innocent people and no seatbelts.