He got rid of the Benz? I'm OTB.
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He got rid of the Benz? I'm OTB.
A total of 187 intersections (filtered into this box in the picture below) were tracked from August 12/2021 to April 5/2022. For one shift from 12:30 to 23:00. For a total of;
- 1,520,028 Passenger Cars
- 452,030 Cyclists
- 71,028 Motorcycles
- 1,066,722 Passenger Cars
- 358,966 Cyclists
- 66,691 Motorcycles
- 1,210,653 Passenger Cars
- 429,940 Cyclists
- 69,198 Motorcycles
A decade??? I was driving a brand new 1980 Buick when I squeezed through on an amber. I reflected, recognizing I could have stopped. I looked in my rear view mirror and five cars came through after me.
Late '70's they were definitely charging the second vehicle through. It wasn't until the '00's that three or four would get away with it.
Now, I double check after my light turns green.
It's been about a decade since TPS completely dropped the notion that they are regularly enforcing traffic laws.
Before trying to stop for the close amber, check your rear view mirror to see if the idiot behind you is hot on your tail.
While driving a car. I welcome the idiot to rear end me.
On the motorcycle I run the yellow (but not the red) no question if some moron is tailing me too closely.
Already seeing more rear ending accidents at intersections now that towns (I'm looking at you, Milton) have outsourced red light cameras and the companies running them have shortened the duration of the ambers to
Generally speaking ambers are timed so that the serious go / no zone is minimal for a driver at the legal speed.
Going well above or below the speed creates a reaction time / decision time / momentum problem.
I caught a crash on my dash cam and later went to the light to get an idea of timing. I'm not trained in visual speed determination but guess the offending car was going 80 KPH in a 50 zone.
She would have gotten a five second amber, two second double red, two seconds before the victim started to move and another second or so before impact. Ten or eleven seconds to stop, even from 80 shouldn't be a problem. One potato, two potato, three potato etc.
The right lane traffic was already stopping. Wouldn't that be a hint to a focused driver?
There was an excuse about a spilled coffee but in reality she was probably focused on being late for an appointment, where to park when she got there, excuses, possibly on the phone and suddenly she recognizes the amber light a second or two after it comes on. Then a second or two or three for her eyes to send the message to her brain and her brain to shift to drive mode but her speed isn't going to match the light timing and she hesitates for a second or two. Now it's critical and she's not used to panic stops and hesitates even more, past the point of no return. She crossed her fingers and guessed wrong.
She smacked the front end off a Civic but no one was injured. If the Civic was a half second faster off the line it would have been a full Tee bone to the Civic door and probably very serious injury to an elderly driver. (Who didn't look for cross traffic) I'm watching it unfold in slo-mo.
FMJ, if it's what you say, there could be more rear enders everywhere as drivers fear running the reds and brake abruptly as the following donut muncher tunes the radio. But Gawd how the money pours in...
In local streets. The pedestrian cross walk is useful in most cases to predict the upcoming yellow.
The argument about time of a yellow reminds me of when they put the red light camera on Richmond and people getting off the DVP were still doing 70+ km/h trying to run it as they entered the 40km/h zone.
Everyone whined the city made it too short. The reality is maybe they shouldn't be going nearly double the speed limit.
Exit off the 401 to Renforth and you go from 100+ to 40 due to parks and school zones. And it's downhill.
C'est la vie. People getting off the highway have the entire off ramp to slow down rather then use it as an extension to the highway. The ramp I believe you're talking about is nearly 600m long plenty of distance of people didn't wait until the lights to slow down.
With Richmond Street. You're actually get a yellow 30km/h zone for the ramp off. You get a white sign saying 50km/h on Eastern Ave then another one on Richmond and the 40km/h sign just west of Parliament.
Plus the Red Light Camera sign, and a "Signals timed to 40km/h sign".
That's 7 signs for drivers. All of them ignored.
The difference in the amber's duration at camera intersections vs. non camera in Milton is obvious to a blind person. The "new" timing of the ambers is the same duration in the 60 zones on Steeles and Derry as it is at the Appleby and Guelph line 80 zone lights on Derry, making it an even worse no-win situation. I've noticed the same shaved amber thing up on the Mountain in Hamilton (home of the red light camera) as well. Rymal is brutal.
And on a lighter note, pic I took of the red light pic one of the mechanics at the bike shop got in his JDM (RHD) 240 in Hamilton 8ish years ago.
Thanks for the warnings.The difference in the amber's duration at camera intersections vs. non camera in Milton is obvious to a blind person. The "new" timing of the ambers is the same duration in the 60 zones on Steeles and Derry as it is at the Appleby and Guelph line 80 zone lights on Derry, making it an even worse no-win situation. I've noticed the same shaved amber thing up on the Mountain in Hamilton (home of the red light camera) as well. Rymal is brutal.
And on a lighter note, pic I took of the red light pic one of the mechanics at the bike shop got in his JDM (RHD) 240 in Hamilton 8ish years ago.
Except that they also randomly count down then the light stays green. Allegedly to slow traffic. I've seen multiple people stop dead at a green light because of this, and then take a few seconds to realize what happened.
Yes. It's ment to cause you to slow down but not stop until you see yellow.
People who do a full stop are idiots.
Most people speed up.
No, they stop because the light turns yellow as soon as the timer hits zero in other intersections and are anticipating the same.
That said, the people who turn what should be a reasonably predictable situation into a random or unnecessarily unpredictable situation (based on their particular idea of safety or for cash generation) where cars are approaching each other at 90° angles are the idiots.
Cyclists, welcome, you have just become the latest target in the culture wars | Peter Walker
Why would Grant Shapps have us think that number plates for bikes are a good idea? The only place that has them is North Korea, says Guardian political correspondent Peter Walker
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Same rhetoric being suggested overseas, against the suggestions of the 'experts'
Cyclists, welcome, you have just become the latest target in the culture wars | Peter Walker
Why would Grant Shapps have us think that number plates for bikes are a good idea? The only place that has them is North Korea, says Guardian political correspondent Peter Walker
Same rhetoric being suggested overseas, against the suggestions of the 'experts'
But it will make it so much easier to ticket all of them.
Or pick your own favourite excuse. I like that one. I think it's the stupidest out of the bunch.
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