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WTF while the rest of us wait in traffic you go around the boulevard to make an illegal right turn. Why is your time more important than ours? May the Traffic Fairies piss down on you when tou least expect it!
— Tired of being bypassed
This article appears in Nov 19-25, 2009.
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The worst of my traffic pet peeves. Same as asshats who drive in the left lane heading to the McKay Bridge from the Windsor St exchange. That lane is meant to be for traffic heading to Barrington St but asshole driver use it to scoot ahead of the bridge traffic lane. I blocked one asshole out once. The look on his face was priceless as I gave him the finger while driving by.
Wait, I am confused. Honestly. Illegal right hand turns? Which bridge? Which side? I need specifics so I can feel rightly shamed or angry.
It may be unethical, but it isn’t illegal……unless there is only an arrow pointing up with the green circle…..or an arrow pointing right with a red circle.
That person’s time may be more important than yours anyway…….something crucial that you are unaware of may be happening to them in that person’s life……time may just be more important to them right then than to you. It just may be so, give a little slack…..you didn’t get hurt by the action….try to be understanding.
On the other hand….it could just be another asshole at large!
Whamp;
You’re approaching the Old Bridge on the Dartmouth side coming from the Bedford direction…..there are 2 lanes of traffic turning right in a short-cut fashion just before the main intersection that is immediately outside the tolls……the right hand one of those lanes has no choice but to turn right while the left one has a choice of keeping straight to go through the intersection or to veer right onto the bridge along side of the rightmost lane…..it IS possible to take the next lane to the left of these 2 lanes and get by them……then cut into the right lane at the intersection now positioned to go straight through the intersection as intended but alas……you turn right instead and have successfully circumvented as much as 3 blocks of two-lane traffic…..naughty naughty YOU!!
If you’re coming out of the Esso station there….across the street…..you are strongly tempted to pull this maneuver…..’cause the assholes in those 2 lanes of traffic are bumper to bumper…..and they won’t give you a hole to get into line.
If your wife is in the backseat having your baby….you are also very likely to try this maneuver…..to save time.
If you’re a blond female…..you’re always going to pull that maneuver….’cause you keep forgetting to turn right until you actually see the toll booths on you’re right.
And as the BITCH implied…..if your time is more important than the rest of us smucks….you just naturally need to pull the maneuver…you can’t really help it if your more important…..it’s just the way it is!