I had a York Region cop as a student once and I asked him why they let this nonsense go down at intersections. He told me it's frowned upon by officers because the risk of causing another accident by unexpectedly trying to force their way into the intersection to chase is too high.
You have a far higher opinion of drivers than I do.
Bingo
The complicated factor is traffic stops are one of the higher risk activities that cops undertake. Daily, people are pulled over for traffic violations that are armed and/or willing to risk lives to avoid disclosing their identity to police. Sadly, imo traffic cops should be armed. Use special constables and the like to free up police time by running collision reporting center, tanking reports, etc where paying cops 150K to do the job with zero risk and low skill required is epically stupid.Reminds me of the inspection I had to get done for our imported RV a few weeks ago. It's supposed to be an actual inspection. I was literally lounging IN the trailer because I arrived a half hour early. The inspection time came and went and a half hour afterwards I went inside and asked if they were running behind schedule. "Oh, yeah, it's already done, here's your paperwork, we were looking for you". I didn't even hear or see the person walk around the trailer despite sitting there with the doors and windows open. They certainly never asked me to even turn on the lights and signals etc.
Yeah, that's going to require political willpower as well. IMHO we should have a separate traffic-police segment that only does HTA enforcement, heck, give peace officers or special constables the required powers if they wanted - Conservation Officers have pretty broad powers and their job is far from traffic policing, so it's a good example of it being possible. There's no crossover between other aspects of policing that way and they can dedicate all their time to traffic. Hell, with the number of tickets they could easily write every day I'm pretty sure it would be entirely self funding the first few years for that matter.
I second the idea of a Highway Patrol for Ontario.Reminds me of the inspection I had to get done for our imported RV a few weeks ago. It's supposed to be an actual inspection. I was literally lounging IN the trailer because I arrived a half hour early. The inspection time came and went and a half hour afterwards I went inside and asked if they were running behind schedule. "Oh, yeah, it's already done, here's your paperwork, we were looking for you". I didn't even hear or see the person walk around the trailer despite sitting there with the doors and windows open. They certainly never asked me to even turn on the lights and signals etc.
Yeah, that's going to require political willpower as well. IMHO we should have a separate traffic-police segment that only does HTA enforcement, heck, give peace officers or special constables the required powers if they wanted - Conservation Officers have pretty broad powers and their job is far from traffic policing, so it's a good example of it being possible. There's no crossover between other aspects of policing that way and they can dedicate all their time to traffic. Hell, with the number of tickets they could easily write every day I'm pretty sure it would be entirely self funding the first few years for that matter.
They still teach how to read analog clocks in public school. Everyone getting tested now is 80+ years old and spent at least a large portion of their life reading analog time. Most importantly, getting the numbers or time slightly wrong doesn't change pass/fail. It is a cognitive test not a documenting time test. They want to see something close to a circle with numbers spread around the circle almost evenly and some hands pointing at numbers that are plausible. I suspect they'd pass f) and maybe even a) from the first image and parkinsons from second image. The fails are pretty noticeable and it's obvious that the writers world view is significantly impaired.
The speed doesn’t even bother me as much as the complete disregard for red lights, stop sign, yield signs, and overall selfishness on the roads.
I don't think it's politicians who are mucking with right-on-reds and in-town speed reduction, It's uninformed bureaucrats doing committee work -- the ones in my town don't even live here!
Speed limit changes need bylaw update and council vote. Bureaucrats may propose but ime, the politicians are leading the charge and voting to pass the amendments. Lots of Karen phone calls and dropping speed limits is trivially easy and then you can tell the Karen's to leave you alone.
