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Traffic sucks again. It is due to all the stupid and lazy students. Don’t believe me? Just wait until January. Enough of them will have failed or dropped out, traffic will be back to normal again. —educated and working
This article appears in Sep 5-11, 2013.
12 Comments
What percentage of students have cars? Ten percent? I don’t know but it can’t be that many. Most walk/take the bus and, unless you happen to live around South st. or University ave. where groups of them walk, I can’t see them adding too much to the traffic situation.
I believe this bitch is directed only to students.. unfair.
They mostly walk from home to campuses or take buses.
There are people out there driving who shouldn’t have the right to hold that coveted title of “licence”
Sad is that N.S. seems to have lowered its standards to hand them out so freely.
In January, won’t get better, watch for accident stats.
Hmmmm, maybe it is all the TEACHERS returning to the classroom (K-12 and Uni) that are holding your ass back from getting to where you want to go in such a fucking hurry! Timing is everything ….. maybe get your ass out 7 minutes earlier or three minutes later and your ass will be on time!
gad, students don’t have cars. they’re bumper fodder.
How many points for a student nowadays?
Triple, if you catch one leading an offensive chant.
Biking in the am does suck a little more come september.
OB might be correct. I drove down university ave and spring garden, today. There were old people walking and waiting for buses. But there were many young women – sunglasses and fancy get ups – driving their 2 door cars…no one in their passenger seat.
Hm. Let’s see now.
First of all, most students don’t drive. So i assume you’re referring to newcomers in general and just calling them students since you seem to forget that halifax is also a tourist town and september is a huge hub for tourist season.
Halifax has no real grid system to speak of. There are almost zero instances of overhead signage telling you which lane you want to be in. Just little arrows on the road that you see two seconds before you hit an intersection. Except in the case where there is no indicator whatsoever in any of the lanes and you’re stuck having to guess and half the time getting it wrong.
What is your story again op? I thought you said educated. But that doesn’t seem right.
Your logic “Newcomers should understand the intricacies of guess-as-you-go halifax streets as well as seasoned locals do” is the same logic that makes the average idiot ask “Durh… why does everyone have an accent except me??”
I’m facepalming so hard right now, it’s taken me 20 minutes just to type this.
And before you tell ME to get off the road, i’ve been here for many years op. And am a very seasoned local driver. I’m just not a shortsighted retard.
You know what you sound like? A bitter, jealous aging twat that looks for any excuse, no matter how full of holes, to insult people who have replaced you. Except that your 20s aren’t the heyday of your life like they used to be. Chances are YOU are in the heyday of your life right now but you’re just too bitter and crotchety to realize it.
You can’t be younger anymore. But can you try to grow up? Nothing less appealing than the brain of a pissy 15 year old in the body of a saggy 45 year old.
As much as I enjoyed your posts, TGBS, I find that your ‘blame it on tourists’ comment doesn’t correlate with my morning rush hour experience.
Reg, even at your estimate of 10 percent, that would be more student drivers than all employees. And, ofcourse not all employees drive. A conservate guess would be 2000 driving Dal students, and only 1100 Dal workers which correlates to the total number of Dal parking spots (found all this on their website)
IMO, it is possible for the student attrition to be very noticable in our morning commute.
You sound like a dude that needs caprice classic black-exhaust-smoke blown in his face! MOVE BITCH, I’m late for class!