Yes, you as a pedestrian have the right of way. LISTEN, if you look up and around at the streets colliding with your walking route there are cars. These cars have drivers in them navigating with other cars and yes, pedestrians and cyclists. We try to vigil the road so as not to have any extra problems in our lives, like accidents/expense. Some of us fail in this area as drivers. Because there is that group that fails, pedestrians in this little city MUST start looking up when they are approaching an intersection/crossing the road. IF I am making a left hand turn in a four lane two way traffic road with a speed limit of 50, you as a human should look up when approaching the intersection walking. IF I am crossing two lanes of oncoming traffic I am NOT slamming on my brakes in front of two lanes of traffic that I have entered when you were at least a meter from the curb area. If I could just slip by and make my turn while you waited at the cross walk for one beat, let’s say, 4 seconds tops I could complete my turn. Completing my turn means that no oncoming cars have to slam on their brakes so they do not t-bone me.
As a pedestrian, I prefer to walk behind cars. I do not demand to walk between the lines. I do not stand and glare at a driver who is perched over the walking lanes trying to turn. Jesus, some drivers have been trained to put it in reverse, give up on making your turn and BACK up so this person can walk between the lines in front of their car. As a pedestrian try to realize the car is perched on your walkway because they are trying to see to make a turn on to a busy street and they were there before you anyways! It is not personal. It is about logic and getting to a point safely. As a pedestrian, I usually let the cars go ahead of me. I do not make them wait for me, especially cars making turns. I wave my hand in the air and let that turning car go and the oncoming traffic speeding towards that driver do not have to be startled by this car hanging in a turn in their lane. Most drivers wouldn’t take the turn if it wasn’t clear but some of you pedestrians just walk across the street with your heads down like everyone is watching out for you. We are. All us sitting idling our gas while you trudge across the road. Can’t you just wait a second? Or even look up? There is a politeness to driving and walking in this city. YOu HAVE THE RIGHT TO WAIVE YOUR RIGHT OF WAY every now and again, you knows. —A Pedestrian
This article appears in Nov 24-30, 2011.
Dude…
those aren’t rules of the road.
there’s no way they could put that in a manual as concrete guidelines on how the flow of traffic should behave.
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Too long.. did not read.
How was everybody’s week? I was driving home in that shit the other night.. sweet thunderin cheeseburgers.. Glad we made it back alive. 3 cheers for all wheel drive.
Welcome home Young Thomas >; ) Didya have a good time in Montreal? Screwed , Blued and tattoed?
I agree that a lot of pedestrians need to start paying closer attention to where they are going and what is going on around them. However, do not agree with the rest of your post,(as hard as it was to read). I would say that more importantly, drivers need to learn and exercise patience:
“IF I am crossing two lanes of oncoming traffic I am NOT slamming on my brakes in front of two lanes of traffic that I have entered when you were at least a meter from the curb area… Completing my turn means that no oncoming cars have to slam on their brakes so they do not t-bone me.”
You’re doing it wrong. It is YOUR responsibility as a driver to ensure that your intended route of travel is clear BEFORE you start to make your turn. You do not turn until it is clear and safe to do so. This is basic driving-school rules. If the pedestrian is at an intersection/crosswalk and the little man says “Walk”, THEY have the right of way, not you. By law, you HAVE to yield to the pedestrian. If you are left hanging in oncoming traffic and they are forced to slam on their brakes or, worse, collide with you, guess who’s to blame? Sure as hell isn’t the pedestrian crossing with the light.
“If I could just slip by and make my turn while you waited at the cross walk for one beat, let’s say, 4 seconds tops I could complete my turn.”
They shouldn’t have to wait for you to get your impatient ass through the intersection and on your marry way. It sucks, I know cuz we’ve all been there. Making a left hand turn during high volume traffic. Finally there is a break big enough for you to go, but now that pedestrian is crossing the street you want to turn onto. Frustrating. But the law nonetheless.
You strike me as one of these people that leaves themselves like 5 minutes to get from one side of town to the other. Always cutting it too close and always in a rush to get somewhere. Am I right? Lack of planning on your part does not constitute a crisis on my part. Either give yourself adequate time to get to where you need to go or find an alternate route. If I see you flying through a crosswalk that I happen to be using at the time, whatever is in my hand is going through your window. And if I don’t have anything in my hand, the cops are going to get a call with a description of your car and your plate number.
Welcome home, TJ. How was Sin City East? You’re way behind on the comments, buddy. You got some catching up to do! lol
Walking behind cars is a good way to get your legs crushed, OB. Very nice of you to put some idiot who doesn’t see the STOP HERE ON RED sign ahead of your life–rly, 2 kind.
I remember, lo, these many years ago, my driving instructor saying ALWAYS yield to pedestrians. “You are nice and comfy in an air-conditioned or heated car and they are on their feet in the elements” he said …
**All us sitting idling our gas while you trudge across the road. Can’t you just wait a second? **
…Why can’t pedestrians just wait a second? Why can’t YOU just wait a second? Being pedestrian friendly makes the city a more enjoyable place to live.
I’m with you. My mom taught me as a youngster to also make eye contact with anybody in a car who is stopping when I cross the road. It’s that ‘save your life’ kind of advice I appreciate.
Are you from Nova Scotia OP?
You might do well to learn how the right of way works around here.. save yourself some serious financial pwnage later.
Op, at first i thought i was going to have to give you a lecture about not trying to twist the rules to accomodate a desire to drive more agressively than a safe driver should be driving. After reading your bitch i am glad you didnt take that approach.
I think you agree that a little less agressive actions from all parrties could help prevent this situation, no?
On Wed, I came across a few pedestrians who refused to walk on the unplowed sidewalks….god forbid. So instead they walk in the street. So each time I came up on one in my car, I slammed on the horn and scared the shit out of them. One lady was so startled she fell into the snow. My friend and I burst out laughing.
Thanks Avast and Ivan (I almost called you PG because you called me young Thomas)
Trip was fun, concert was truly awesome, 2 and a half hours and about 40 songs. We all came down with little headcolds, and the drive back was god awful, our GPS took us to the US border so that added hours to our trip, but we had a lot of fun nonetheless.
I love that city, good to be back though.
With all the LOOKING UP you suggest these folks do, one would think they were crossing a flight path at LAX
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So each time I came up on one in my car, I slammed on the horn and scared the shit out of them. One lady was so startled she fell into the snow. My friend and I burst out laughing.
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You are becoming *irresistable* to me!
Let me blow in your asshole and work your wang, like a trombone, okay?
I can only choose to be gay for so long. And you’re really making it hard(if you know what I mean!)
Lipstick is red.
Bruises are blue.
I wish I could write homoerotica
Like my pal Wheelie do.
lol good lord you two..
sebastian you have a friend? 😀
Good for you!
wheels (can i call you wheels?)
You’re feeding the troll.
Man…& some people are complaining LS’s comments are creepy !
Hey, douchebag – those lines on the road that you’re bitching that pedestrians try to walk through.. You know.. the cross-walk?
Do you even understand how that works.. In this day and age where not being killed trying to walk across the street is ALL up to the pedestrian.. You might do well to realize that THOSE FUCKING LINES ARE WHERE THE PEDESTRIAN IS NOT AT FAULT FOR WALKING IF INDEED HIT.
If they try to cross the street outside the crosswalk(marked or unmarked) and you hit them – no sweat! its e pedestrians fault!
BUT if they stay in the lines and get hit – I hope they fucking take you for every cent your partner doesn’t end up getting after leaving your douchebag ass.
yeah more, can you fucking believe that. at least i just fuck around, seb is a little whacked in the skull, methinks
grampie gary, i think more was talking about wheelie and ivan
Sebastabitch is many things; a troll he is not. He is a plague, a pox , a poison, an inflamed polyp. He can be funny or infuriating or infuriatingly funny but he is part of the fabric of LTWWB. “if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you”
The abyss in this case being a gaping bloody anus reamed to the breadth of the Holland Tunnel.
ivan, i’m not even going to consider how you brought that observation of seb, into this. but inquiring minds gotta know, from where did you get the discription of his ass at.
sebastard. Sweetheart you are a fuckin’ steeping steaming pile of human feces. That’s if you’re human.
Uhhhhh, I saw it written on a toilet stall down at the train station. Yeah, that’s it.
I have seen tons of pedestrians who don’t look up when crossing the street. I was told when i was younger to always look both ways before crossing the street…. pretty simple…
You lost me at LISTEN.
@ Ivan. – If only you could see what I’ve seen with your eyes.
Fiery the angels fell; deep thunder roared around their shores; burning at the fires of Orc.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams … glitter in the dark near Tanhauser Gate. All those … moments will be lost … in time, like tears … in rain. Time … to die.
Friggin great movie, one of my all time favs.
Mine too Hugo. I’ve been know to make SOBova tear up by re-enacting that scene, with a plush manatee in lieu of a white dove.
“sebastard. Sweetheart you are a fuckin’ steeping steaming pile of human feces. That’s if you’re human.”
LOL faggots aren’t human. They’re more like a virus actually.
…and THAT reminds me of THIS: can you imagine?
http://peoplelikingpeople.blogspot.com/201…
damn… that’s cold.
effective… but cold.
LMFAO – that’s perfect. And it IS a scene from Narnia. Whaddya think Edmund did after eating all that Turkish delight?
Two bad items in today’s paper: ‘Woman using wheelchair hit in Halifax crosswalk’ and ‘Woman seriously hurt when hit by big rig’.
…Wheelie-I am thinking of you this morning…Let’s be careful out there.
Xeno-
That was very nice. Thank you! I know it’s the Bitch Board, but thereare forms of friendships on here and people I’ve met that I have come to care about in the rizzle.
I saw that too. The first person’s legs were messed up pretty bad, I read. Hit by a transport truck(I was run over by a transport truck, while I was cycling- sigh). They’re in critical condition. Probably a life with some pain and fucked up walking. I remember being at the foot of Recovery Mountain. It’s a lonely place.
The lady who was hit and uses a chair weirded me out a bit.
I try and make eye contact and say thanks at every corner and crosswalk. I know that sometimes shit happens, but if I can avoid the obvious ones with caition/awareness, it’s all I can do.
Thanks again for the thought.
🙂
Wpaul
hey i already posted that pootat xeno, it was the dog poo smearing. git outta mae head
Paul: do you have a flag of some sort? or some blinkies for the wheels? (those are very cool, I think) something to make you more visible…? Dusk is the most dangerous time for pedestrians and cyclists.
Painey, nuh-uh, check the date…
He’s got a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine and 8 Browning .303 machine guns, 4 in each wing
http://www.sonsofdamien.co.uk/images/spitf…
I pity the fokker what tries to tangle with him. Even if the fokker in question happens to be flying a Messerschmidt. Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk.
Judge’s decision – Sorry Painey – Xeenie’s dookie tattoo story was first.
Oh Ivan, you do not…
This was more what I was thinking…which you can do, if your wheels are at least 200mm diameter
http://www.monkeylectric.com/index.htm
If Wheelie had those that would be SOOOOO cool!
sorry about that folks, i didn’t check the dates. ovaltine summit, those who can skate can assist the others…wheeee
I have no neon orange flag, because I don’t want to look like a spazmotic dicksatchell.
I try to make sure cars are almost stopped before hitting the crosswalk, and make myself obvious with flags, lights, or fireworks.
A light on a neckchain might be an easy thing to do. I honestly haven’t thought about this stuff because of how careful I am already. Going over the top seems more trouble than it’s worth: I know I’m a short pedestrian, but if they don’t use them, I’m not going to.
In the future I may change this if I feel unsafe.
In general, I feel like the chair is an extension of my beautiful body, and festooning it with flags and junk makes me feel like the spazmotic thingie.
I hope that makes sense.
Wpaul
Just out of curiosity I looked up “Spazmotic Dicksatchell” http://wind-warrior-lan-idieas-and-updates…
I think you’re pretty safe for now Paul.
OMG Ivan! Sooo very wrong lol!
Loool
I realise this isn’t how the rules of the road are, nor am I saying they should be this…
But what ever happened to common sense ?
You know the big mother fucking truck coming down the street !
Do you realise what will happen to that TRUCK …. if it hits you ?
Not a damn thing!..you probably won’t even knock any of the mud off it.
Do you realise what will happen to YOU…. if the truck hits you ?
death…severe injury, possibly debilitating injury its going to ruin your day one way or another.
So where is the fucking common sense at ?
I’m a big guy, I know that & I know even so, a smart car is bigger than I am & its about the smallest motor vehicle on the road with 4 wheels ! Yet ,if it hits you, its going to fuck up your day & could quite easily kill you.
So I am truely on the fence of whether the human race would be better off without those mouth breathing assholes who don’t look up & just walk out into traffic, or trying to see it as, everyone deserves to live & maybe inflatable bumpers for all vehicles & bouncy rubber roads is the way to go !
Because the amount of people without an iota of common sense can be observed every day just driving around the city !
AND IMO the only reason dere aren’t more people being struck by vehicles is because of the defensive actions of drivers…& some people are fast enough to get themselves out of harms way… a place they are usually in because of their own inattention.
More, these women were in the MIDDLE of a motherfucking crosswalk!
The type of truck I personally hate is the big ass dump truck. Since it is difficult for them to start moving from a full stop (as anyone who’s driven behind them will know) they tend to AVOID STOPPING. My cousin’s husband was killed by an INCO slurry truck that ran a red light 20 years ago–I freakin’ hate those trucks–
Yes, most people will lose a fight with a big truck. I don’t think these women magically appeared in the crosswalk, though…Clearly, these drivers in the stories didn’t take enough care.
Xeno…I was responding to the bitch & peoples attitudes in General.
I appologise if you thought I was talking about the 2 people recently hurt in accidents , particularly the woman in the wheelchair.
As someone who almost hit 2 girls Wednesday night at about 8pm in downtown halifax…they stepped out from between 2 parked cars & I didn’t see them until I was right on top of them…this bitch & that close call & the thought of where is common sense is why I posted what I did.
“LOL f-a-g-g-o-t-s aren’t human. They’re more like a virus actually.”
– Posted by Donairious BIG on November 27, 2011 at 11:34 PM
Illegal hate speech. Delete the post. Ban the user. If you do not then you are as guilty as he.