We all know about the multitude of crosswalk accidents that occur in the HRM every year. This year we’ve even gone so far as to put up signs on buses asking both drivers and pedestrians to be careful when it comes to crosswalk safety.
These signs only serve to frustrate me, because I walk across the rotary twice a day. I get to watch people waiting to merge, with a car ahead of them, see me coming and pull the car ahead to cover the crosswalk, trying to stop me from going in front of them. I get to deal with making eye contact with people in cars, and having to step back when they gun the engine so they can go first. I’ve even dealt with cars honking at me when I walk in front of them. The mornings seem fine, but this happens every other day in the afternoon. I don’t care why you want to get home quickly. What you’re doing LATER doesn’t matter—what you’re doing when you’re driving a multi-ton steel death machine matters NOW. -Quick Feet on the Crosswalk
This article appears in Apr 3-9, 2014.
They are simply jealous that you are getting home for free while they pay (lease/loan payment, gas, upkeep/repairs, insurance…) through the nose! The logic therein is that if I pay $300-$5,000+ a month for my car, then I get the right-of-way.
Allow them to go. Laugh at them while they burn their money away. Then post about how great life is without the albatross around your neck, stealing your hard-earned money…
If you don’t believe me, watch the number of dislikes on this comment…
I also cross the rotary twice a day. It is pretty nutty. Develop a good death stare, and remember that 90% of all BMW drivers are subhuman.
Ob, it is bad enough driving through the rotary, you are dumb to be walking through it when it is easier and safer to walk around it.
carry a metal baseball bat and look menacing. i used to come off burrard bridge and have to cross the beach ave merge with absolute lunatics fixated on getting onto the bridge. i whacked their hoods with my umbrella.
they KNOW they can hurt you with their cars, and they know that despite your being in the right, you have tyo step back or get hurt, so it’s just aggressive bullying on their part. if you don’t mind looking like a crazy person, raise your arms and start yelling.
Navigating the rotisserie on foot has always been a life/death experience for many. Drivers in cars just don’t care. It’s a sin to be a few minutes late for supper.
Tomaso, speaking of BMW drivers. I was crossing the street late at night by the commons a few years back. I had the little green man and there was a bmw stopped at the light. He started revving his engine and inching forward. I looked over into the windshield and he was laughing with this girl in the passenger seat – obviously very pleased with himself. I was still smoking at the time and about half-way through a cigarette, which I flicked directly onto his windshield and watched as it rolled down onto the wipers and he freaked out like a little baby having a temper tantrum. Good times.
gv, how would one ‘go around’ the rotary on foot if going from quinpool to st mags bay road?
levitate?
no matter what you do, you have to cross at least one of the vehicular approaches to the circle.
I don’t understand why there are not any flashing overhead crosswalk lights that can be activated like at major intersections. It is foolish of this city to not do so. That place is dangerous for any pedestrian.
It’s too busy and fluid for flashing lights. Traffic would be at a standstill. I think mutual respect would be the only solution, which is why this will always be an issue.
Hoist-exactly the shit I am talking about. Motherfuckers that wear driving gloves, also. Buncha Toads, poo pooing in their motorcars..
COMPLETELY INCONSIDERATE
I think the drivers at the rotary are being completely inconsiderate. The next time someone beeps his horn at you, moon them.
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Sounds almost as hazardous as the ROUNDABOUT.
Come on Tomaso. It’s not like the Armdale Rotary gets foot traffic like Spring Garden road. The traffic would not be any more at a standstill than it is now. You get a pedestrian every now and then. Think man. An activated crosswalk mechanism would be a good thing, as Martha would say.
Yours truly
Yeah, it might. I don’t know if it would be effective with the rules of the roundabout though. At this point I honestly can’t think of a reason against it. Point.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-25…
If the Civil Rights Movement was fighting for blacks to have the same opportunities to join dumb-ass cults as white folks, then I’d say they have admirably succeeded. I read somewhere that most imams view the Nation of Islam in much the same way that a Jesuit would look at a Melanesian cargo cult
“Love the enthusiasm guys, but I can’t help but think you may have missed a point or two.”
N.O.I. differs from mainstream islam in that it considers Wallace Fard, the mulatto huckster who created the cult to have have been the living embodiment of god on earth. islam of, course , teaches that “there is no god but allah” making the NOI’s stance blasphemy, although to date , no embassies have been sacked, no diplomats murdered, so I guess it’s not as serious an offence against islam as a cartoon or teddy bear..
THE FIVE PERCENT NATION
“Jay-Z raised eyebrows at the Barclay’s Center last week when he wore a medallion symbolizing the Five Percent Nation … One of the core tenants (sic) of the Five Percent Nation – an off-shoot of Islam – is that white people are ‘wicked and inferior’ to black men.”
The Daily Mail
Jay-Z better not try that in Montreal if Pauline wins the election. It’s not about white people being inferior to black men. Racism is neither here nor there. It’s all about the Five Percent Nation being an off-shoot of Islam. Jay-Z will soon learn that the Secular Charter forbids the prominent display of all religious symbols in public places. Got that, Jay-Z?
A pleasure as always.
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