Why, oh, why do you tease me, so? I drive through the same intersections regularly (Young/Windsor, Dutch Village/Alma-Titus), usually at about the same times each day. Sometimes I get an advanced flashing green, sometimes I don’t. I get to the intersection well before the light changes, so I know I’m on time. I sit there, looking at the huge line of oncoming traffic and waiting to see your sweet green arrow flashing, beckoning me through the intersection like a VIP at a club lineup. Sometimes you let me in, sometimes you don’t. Why are you so cruel? —Hali Driver
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Sounds like a great place for another traffic circle. I love those suckers. Drivers have to pay attention to maneuver thru them which suits me to a tee tee. Another spot for a much-needed traffic circle: that wretched Willow Tree intersection.
Might as well eliminate traffic lights since most drivers think they’re in the Daytona 500. Yellow used to mean ‘go like hell’ – red now means ‘stomp on the gas pedal with the fury of a Hfx. Transit driver’.
I hear crystal meth is hitting the streets lately… I offer evidence ^^^
There are a few traffic lights around town that only go through the advance flashing green on alternate cycles. Maybe that’s the source of your woe.
I would just like to remind drivers that the yellow light does not mean hurry up. It means stop. The caveat is “if you can stop safely”. Don’t jam on your brakes … but also don’t speed up. I see some drivers take a run at orange lights from way too far back. Maybe they should have a line on the road back from the light so that drivers know that if they are beyond that line they definitely do not have time to make the light when driving at legal speed.
https://www.novascotia.ca/sns/rmv/handbook…
Same goes for pedestrians. If the walk signal is flashing or the countdown timer has started (in conjunction with the flashing walk signal) it is too late to enter the crosswalk. It isn’t telling you how much time you have to enter and get across. It is telling those already in the crosswalk how long they have left to exit. https://www.halifax.ca/traffic/documents/c…
Thanks Maurice…who knew…?
^^^ The only think wrong with text is that there is no easy way to convey a sarcastic, condescending tone of voice – if you catch my drift. 🙂
For the record, I was referring to the bitch, not TTFB. His comment was not visible at time I posted mine. Sorry TTFB!
pretty sure ttfb is a she 😛
I agree with TTFB, regardless of gender, or the possibility of heavy drug use. Even if the comment was some sort of strange, hard to pick up on sarcasm. Willie agrees.
HRM couldn’t synchronize the traffic lights if they hit them up side the head. I believe the same person who does the traffic lights is the same person that does the bus schedules.
BroTim, i agree except I think it’s probably a large, unnecessary team of overpaid managers that can’t figure out the lights and busses, instead of just one. This city doesn’t do anything without paying a lot of people to do nothing.
The worst is Young street, from Gottingen/Novelea to Kempt….the road is maybe 1 km but there’s 4-5 traffic lights, and they all change and various times, even AT rush hour. God forbid our city planners actually PLAN traffic at rush hour….oh….and some red light camera’s would save a few lives too!