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You can’t get pissed when you fail to yield then almost run another car off the road, next time you are driving on port land look before you just ram your van into traffic! —almost flipped
This article appears in Sep 25 – Oct 1, 2014.
13 Comments
Portland street is a nightmare filled with idiots…they should line the entire route with police to catch all the idiots running red lights(not amber then red, full on reds) unsafe lane changes, driving 80+ to make a lane change in the middle of an intersection/no lane change area…its mind boggling. I think we should change Nova Scotia’s slogan from canadas ocean playground to “we drive however the fuck we want to drive and screw any laws or rules and if you dont like it, leave”
Cuja12… drive along the autoroutes in Montreal, or better, within the city itself. Then come complain to Daddy…
Hey! Are you criticizing Montréal? Start with spelling it correctly!!
Montreal is 100x better to drive in than Halifax.
– Professional Driver
That’s a good introduction but can you empirically substantiate your claim? You must realze that assertions such as yours are empty without such substantiation. Start now.
Montrealman in my career i have driven in every province and that includes quebec. NEVER had a problem in any other province with the types of drivers/routes that we have here in the ocean playground. I have driven light armoured vehicles, i even got to drive a Leopard 2a6 in Alberta. Hell, i even took an 8 tonne vehicle for a rip across the prairies (what a hoot until i got stuck in a dried up pond). So when i see things like a U-turn from the right hand lane going up portland street hill by a young female bubblehead(when light is less than 200 feet away), left hand turns to try and beat on coming traffic ending in tbone, a young woman pulling out into oncoming traffic and getting smoked and countless red light runners all along portland street every day…its something one notices. So challenge was accepted, and completed and your challenge is lacking and incomparable to the shit drivers here. Period.
now that you mention it, i thought i was terrified driving from Port Said, Egypt to Cairo regularly, then i came home to halifax and it reminded me that that id rather drive in egypt than drive with the idiots here.
RSVP
:Cuja (10/01, 10:30AM)
You misunderstood my point. When I asked you to empirically support your claim that Montreal is 100X better to drive in than Halifax I did not mean your anecdotal claims about specific incidents. You must distinguish between anecdote and broad empirical support for your assertions.
Also, “professional driver” is a deeply ambiguous phrase. Does it have any content? It suggests that a “professional driver” is somehow in a higher category than someone who has just driven a lot of miles in different sorts of vehicles. Please enlighten.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio
Why is it that gps’ instruct people to make a legal u-turn?
Shouldn’t it say, find a driveway and turn around?
I’m not really aware of any ‘legal u-turns…
better yet, just re-route me around, bitch!
(my gps is a lady… a german lady who slaughters the street names at that)
I don’t know if anyone in this province knows what a yield sign means.
Maybe because they put them in places they aren’t even needed….
like say,
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=joe+howe+an…
one lane turning left, one turning right… onto a two lane street.
Why the fuck would I need to yield – in a legal way?
It’s because idiots always break the law and cross over to the right lane on a left turn.
I never said that montreal is 100x better or worse..someone else did Montreal Man.
WHO IS DRIVER 3?
“Driver 3” (09/24, 10:30PM) made the claim about Montréal and asserted that he was a “professional driver.” Your post followed immediately (10/01, 10:30AM) claiming that you had experience driving in Québec. I assumed – naturally but it appears incorrectly – that you were “Driver 3.”
The question now is, “Who is Driver 3?” For that matter, who is Cuja 12?
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!