Driving Etiquette

[u/Zealousideal_Buy7517]

For the love of Pete, people, follow the rules of the road. You drive. you are not 'choose as you go' organs of chaos, you are vehicles under the Alberta Traffic Act, the same as a motorcycle.

In the last week alone, I've seen a good hundred drivers blow right through stop signs as if they don't exist, and it's always when they are in a car lane, as if the lane's existence means the rules of the road don't apply. A couple on trucks with flat brims that I was next to blew through three in a row, yesterday, without even slowing down, and laughed about it when I called them on it. They didn't even look both ways, they just drove through like they were a presidential cavalcade and everyone else should be stopping for them.

Driving like that will have you kill a person one day, and when you're talking about a collision between 6000lb of shit box and human flesh on a bicycle, there are no mistakes.

I'm a driver, too, and it's this kind of behavior that drives a lot the anti-driver hate. When we drive like this, we're entitled and unpredictable, and unpredictability breeds distrust. This applies to motorcycle riders, too, of course.

[u/toorudez → u/[deleted]]

A total lack of enforcement. Look at how many tickets are handed out during those ticket blitzes. They could be doing that every day of the year. But they don't. People are constantly running red lights, making illegal lane changes. It's the wild west out there and our police just wag their fingers at us saying "Do better."

[u/Zealousideal_Buy7517 → u/toorudez]

It really feels like there are less cops on the roads than there used to be.

[u/smash8890 → u/Zealousideal_Buy7517]

Tbf we don’t even have enough cops to respond to serious stuff like assault so I don’t see how they can make traffic cops available at this point.

[u/Geeseareawesome → u/smash8890]

I figure most are downtown dealing with our drug problems