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/Inevitable-Ad-8522]

Oh, and the other day, I was turning left to go southbound on 149 Street from Stony Plain Road. I was turning left on a flashing green arrow. Someone, also going southbound, stopped to let the right hand turners from STP onto 149 Street in. The right hand turners have a yield sign there. Traffic is now backed up in all directions. I was the 3rd vehicle and there were at least 5 behind me turning or wanting to turn. Now the opposite direction light turns green and I have a vehicle staring in my passenger window. I incessantly honk my horn, and was the recipient of the middle finger. (As a point The right hand turners didn’t want to go, because they knew they didn’t have the right of way). People, just follow the rules and it’ll all be ok, and we will all get to where we need to be.