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Lane splitting
- Thread starter mroheemun
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Lord Business
Active member
What's with the drivers in the GTA? Motorcycles are not permitted to lane split, but the idiots on the 401 Westbound on my commute home seem to have entitled themselves to use onramps and shoulders for passing. I have yet to see one pulled over, or even other motorists honk at these **********. Just saying, if you're gonna be a complete jerk off in a car, don't be mad when you're stuck in a jam and see a bike cruise by.
Yesterday, at 5:30am, I was travelling in the right lane of the 410 southbound. I was slightly above the limit. Cars to my left were a little more above the limit and no one seemed to be left lane hogging. Rather unusually people seemed to be passing, then getting back over. When I got to the first 407 exit I was passed on the right by a car that took that exit, then cut back in front of the pickup truck that was in front of me. I estimate that car was going about 180 Kmh.
That is not an unusual occurrence.
That was amazingly chaotic, but zero collisions in the video. I felt bad for those pedestrians having vehicles go around them in front and behind at the same.
And recently many people have suggested that we go for a "no lights or stops" style of traffic "control" here, in the belief that it will move traffic more effectively. Based on my experiences in downtown Toronto during the big blackout of 2003, I must disagree with them.
Imagine a dundas square roundabout. People would be stuck in them, getting dizzy and it would end up being like playing bumper cars.
People who live in areas with round abouts, in the GTA, don't even have any idea how to use them.
[video=youtube_share;wnfjcgeuo_k]http://youtu.be/wnfjcgeuo_k[/video]
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