Traffic cops! There’s a fortune in tickets to be made in front of the white CBC building on Sackville. Watch how many vehicles cruise through the red light when they turn onto Bell Road. Red means stop, assholes! If you run me down while I’m crossing at the intersection, I’ll be dead and you’ll be sorry. —Pedestrian
This article appears in May 30 – Jun 5, 2013.
You can turn right on red legally unless a sign specifies otherwise. Just an FYI in case that’s what you’re going on about. Sure, they still have to yield to pedestrians crossing. But otherwise, they’re good to go.
What Eats says. A quick stop, then they are clear to make that turn.
Then do the smart thing, don’t cross until the traffic stops. It will save you from dying and the driver will be alive and you won’t know if they are sorry or not.
You’ll be dead and they won’t give a sweet stink unless they get caught. The two fucktard drivers didn’t care when I saw each of them barrel through a full red light on Barrington & Duke last week, the way people used to stomp it on a yellow with no people in front of them. Driver self-entitlement has leaped to frightening levels and for what? To get somewhere 2.3 seconds sooner? We need a Robo-Elmer the Safety Elephant on patrol.
On friday, I saw two cars barrel through a cross walk with cars stopped on both sides. The yellow lights were flashing. One made it through with about a foot clearance between his shitbox and a mother with her newborn infant. The other slammed on his breaks and had about two inches from smashing into the poor lady. It was hot out so windows were down and the driver of the second car got yelled at and shamed by everyone around the crosswalk. We caught up to the other driver at the next stop light and we yelled at him. He was all ‘I didnt see them!’ Well… Bus was stopped (indication #1 that the cross walk might be used), the crosswalk was FILLED with people (indication #2), vehicles were stopped on both sides (indication #3) and the yellow overhead lights were flashing (indication #4). If you can’t deduce that someone is crossing after all those clues, you gotta be a special kinda stupid, or have one hell of an entitlement complex. And given that we caught up to the guy by chance at the next light, I’d say his plans to get to where he was going OMG SO FAST HE CAN’T STOP FOR PEDS CROSSING THE STREET really got him oh so much farther ahead.
Assholes.
Meh…people are like ants nowadays, we won’t really miss a few.
Now I want a giant magnifying glass.
True, you can turn right on red, but red still means stop. I’m pretty sure the bitch is about drivers who are not stopping before they turn (and are nearly running down pedestrians). Hooray Halifax traffic!
hooray halifax traffic?
I’m sorry, where are you from? Halifax is one of the ONLY CITIES in canada where pedestrians have the right of way in this fashion.
now while i’m a huge advocate of them having the right of way EVERYWHERE, the reality is that halifax is one of the few cities where they’re not constantly on the run for their lives.
we may not do it perfectly but we sure as hell do it better.
Halifax is one of the only places where pedestrians have the right of way in a cross walk on a green light with a walk signal? Is that “this fasion” you speak of? Where are YOU from?
Eats-crayons, have you been anywhere else? First of all, cars still need to stop at a red light regardless if they’re allowed to make a right turn, that is the law. Secondly, any city I’ve been to (Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, etc) pedestrians always have the right of way when they are signaled to walk
Actually yes Fray.
In most cities I’ve either lived or been in, if a car is turning right and the ped has the right of way, the car goes first. Obviously through traffic has to stop. Turning traffic does not.
Then drivers in montreal are breaking the law all over the place. I lived there and learned to drive there, sadly. It’s a miserable place for a pedestrian.
Crayons is right. In Quebec, drivers always have the right of way including peds in crosswalks on green lights.
Their intersection lights system is wack, too.
Try in front of the Chronicle Herald building on J Howe and all the people illegally crossing the double lines to go in and out. I guess they prefer ticketing speeders.