Hi Halifax Driver. Let me tell you about an exciting driving rule that will change your life and make you a better person. I know you don’t know this rule already. I know it’s not that you think you’re SO much more important than everyone else, and SO much more busy than everyone else that you just don’t have time to wait for the next light, and it’s better that the twenty cars trying to go through the intersection the other way lose their green so you can gain your precious thirty seconds. I’m sure that’s not it. You’ve just never heard this rule or, I don’t know, figured it out for yourself. So here it is: DO NOT ENTER AN INTERSECTION UNTIL YOU CAN GET OUT OF IT. Okay? If there isn’t room for you to get out the other side, just don’t get in. Great, isn’t it? You’re welcome.
—Chick With Stroller In Crosswalk Where You’re Parked
This article appears in Sep 3-9, 2009.
Nova Scotia is the worst for this. If you did that in TO they would drag you out of you car and beat the shit out of you. Lay on the horn and embarrass the shit out of them.
That happens in Toronto all the time without beatings.
Please DONT’T lay on the horn holla. There’s a lot of residents on the streets of Halifax (myself included) who really don’t appreciate that.
I agree with nevermind, heard enough horns when living in Montreal. NS has all kinds of stupid drivers. Every morning I get to listen as drivers lay on the horn at Alderney & Portland when drivers obey the sign that states: No right turn (onto Portland) unless light is green or you have the green turning arrow.
That’s just fucking stupid – I don’t own a car, but I rent one from time to time, and even I can grasp the concept of waiting till there’s space. I used to see these people blocking the intersection and feel sorry for them, but now I just despise them.
I like the guys who pull out of parking lots and sit with their cars across the sidewalk, watching for an opening in traffic. I don’t walk behind their car like they want me to, I walk in front of it. If they see me, that is..
V-O-R, that light allowed you to make a right turn on the red for many, many years. They recently changed it a year or two ago…& I for one don’t understand why.
Another traffic light BS I don’t get…is why do lights flash in intersections in Halifax after midnight…but in Dartmouth they don’t & you just sit there with no other traffic waiting for the lights to change to green !?!
Me I actually , stop, look for any cars ,any movement anywhere, & when I see none, and usually i don’t because it’s after 1am, I just go through the red.