Pedestrians! Look the fuck up from the ground when you’re going to walk into traffic! Come on! And when I’m half-way through an intersection don’t just walk out and then look up and flip me off. Fuck, use your brain and some fucking courtesy, sometimes it isn’t possible to stop in one car length, so don’t flip when I avoid hitting you by moving over instead of stopping. You would get hurt way more than my vehicle. —Annoyed Truck Driver
This article appears in Sep 20-26, 2012.
where’s a crosswalk accident when you really need it.
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What do you call a stupid pedestrian? Dead.
I like to walk every morning for my daily exercise. I wish the drivers would get up a little earlier in the morning so they would actually take the time to look for me, a pedestrian enjoying a morning stroll, before they pull out into traffic like some kind of bandit. Between that and the dope wafting out their open windows I’m not sure if they are half asleep or doped up but please take a few minutes to turn your sleepy head both ways before you pull out in traffic. I have had a few near misses myself as a morning walker because you’re still asleep at the wheel!
when you walk across a road, you should run like fuck.
op. I’m a driver. I have two opinions here and am finding it hard to choose one.
Halifax is a casserole of nonsense. The streets are weird and the pedestrians run amok. Of course.. that’s what also makes it sort of a cool place to live but you’re right. When they dart out in front of you, you can’t be expected to see them.
However, if they merely assume you’re going to obey the law and take their right of way, that’s your fucking problem. If you have to yield to a crossing, you yield BEFORE you look.
That’s called defensive driving.