The Bad Drivers of Ontario Thread

[Wind Shear]

https://www.facebook.com/profile/100064755580230/search/?q=left%20lane%20bandits

It's a nice anecdote from them. They should enforce the west 401. I drive it daily, and it's like the lane discipline is completely flipped.
I can get in the very right lane and pass hundreds of cars AND trucks, for kilometers at a time. It's comical.

 

[Maniac]

It's a nice anecdote from them. They should enforce the west 401. I drive it daily, and it's like the lane discipline is completely flipped.
I can get in the very right lane and pass hundreds of cars AND trucks, for kilometers at a time. It's comical.

Yep, right lane is the fastest in most of the cases, as everyone is avoiding it for whatever reason

 

[Rob MacLennan]

Yep, right lane is the fastest in most of the cases, as everyone is avoiding it for whatever reason

On the 401 westbound, past the airport, you can usually go literally twice as fast as surrounding traffic by sticking to the right two lanes. Until, that is, some vehicle cuts straight across 5 lanes of traffic to make the Dixie Rd. exit.

 

[backmarkerducati]

Brought it up before in the thread, highways are improperly (incompetently) engineered in Ontario. Lanes are added and subtracted on the right and rarely from the left. This conditions people to drive in the left lane as they do not need to change lanes. Subliminally/psychologically conditioning or even worse bad driver that are afraid of lane changes. Drive in the right lane (what is supposed to be the driving lane) and your lane ends when the number of lanes are reduced. For example, park yourself in the left lane after the 427 on the QEW and you can pretty much drive all the way to Niagara never having to change lanes. Can't do that in the right lane.

This is unique to Ontario and a few other places, it is one of the main reasons for left lane bandits. Where highways are better engineered right lane is driving lane and if there are lane reductions or additions it is done on the left, which makes sense as it is there for passing....

I find the behaviour bad at all times but much worse on the weekend when non-commuters are using the highways.

 

[FullMotoJacket]

I find the behaviour bad at all times but much worse on the weekend when non-commuters are using the highways.

Had to drive up 6N to go to my vet yesterday afternoon. Totally forgot Flamboroughites take their cars out for a walk on the weekend.

 

[nobbie48]

Brought it up before in the thread, highways are improperly (incompetently) engineered in Ontario. Lanes are added and subtracted on the right and rarely from the left. This conditions people to drive in the left lane as they do not need to change lanes. Subliminally/psychologically conditioning or even worse bad driver that are afraid of lane changes. Drive in the right lane (what is supposed to be the driving lane) and your lane ends when the number of lanes are reduced. For example, park yourself in the left lane after the 427 on the QEW and you can pretty much drive all the way to Niagara never having to change lanes. Can't do that in the right lane.

This is unique to Ontario and a few other places, it is one of the main reasons for left lane bandits. Where highways are better engineered right lane is driving lane and if there are lane reductions or additions it is done on the left, which makes sense as it is there for passing....

I find the behaviour bad at all times but much worse on the weekend when non-commuters are using the highways.

401 eastbound at Weston Road / 400 north / Weston Road to 401 on ramp. Drive it in rush hour and you'll understand.

 

[nobbie48]

 

[Mikedezo44]

Maybe they are leaving the country soon and don't care about our points system, speeding, or suspensions.....one can only hope.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1649057092542812161

 

[Baggsy]

I've had similar with oncoming bikes.
Yes, your high beams let YOU see better, and make you more visible blindingly so, but you still shouldn't do it. The oncoming vehicle can't see the road, but they know you're on it, so they're going to want to aim very very close to you.

 

[Rob MacLennan]

I've had similar with oncoming bikes.
Yes, your high beams let YOU see better, and make you more visible blindingly so, but you still shouldn't do it. The oncoming vehicle can't see the road, but they know you're on it, so they're going to want to aim very very close to you.

I did a video to illustrate why not to do it, years ago. It's tough enough for drivers to determine the distance and speed of single track vehicles at all, without making yourself a blob of light at an indeterminate distance too.

 

[Soulcatcher668]

I did a video to illustrate why not to do it, years ago. It's tough enough for drivers to determine the distance and speed of single track vehicles at all, without making yourself a blob of light at an indeterminate distance too.

You will never win over the 'Always on high beam' crowd. It's the same disfunction as the 'Loud pipes save lives'.

 

[Rob MacLennan]

You will never win over the 'Always on high beam' crowd. It's the same disfunction as the 'Loud pipes save lives'.

Oh, I'm well aware of that. One of the evangelists posted on that video.

 

[nobbie48]

Drunks and high beams don't mix. I was heading north on 15 heading towards Smiths Falls and ended up behind an impaired driver heading the same way. Regular oncoming headlights had him slowing to a crawl. High beams meant a complete stop. All over the road as well.

He finally pulled onto the shoulder as I called the location into the OPP.

 

[FullMotoJacket]

He finally pulled onto the shoulder as I called the location into the OPP.

I've got a crisp Twenty here that says the OPP didn't act upon it.

 

[GreyGhost]

I don't have the back story to this but whenever you have a construction worker on your hood, speeding off is not the correct course of action.

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7223882051164900614

 

[Maniac]

speeding off is not the correct course of action.

Why do you think so? Looks like it worked.

 

[Rob MacLennan]

Why do you think so? Looks like it worked.

Sure, until the video that was posted gets to police, along with the video that was shot by the worker behind the car, that shows an assault, dangerous operation of a vehicle, and operation on a closed highway.

 

[Maniac]

Sure, until the video that was posted gets to police, along with the video that was shot by the worker behind the car, that shows an assault, dangerous operation of a vehicle, and operation on a closed highway.

So do it only on a stolen car - problem solved.

 

[Rob MacLennan]

So do it only on a stolen car - problem solved.

I have my doubts that someone would take the time to plan out stealing a car just so they could run into a costruction worker, on a closed road.

 

[mimico_polak]

I have my doubts that someone would take the time to plan out stealing a car just so they could run into a costruction worker, on a closed road.

My friend witnessed the death of a construction worker a few years ago due a drunk driver running from the cops. Guy blew through the cones and hit one of the guys that didn’t jump out of the way in time.

Actually spoke about it with him a few weeks ago. He said the blood splatter was on his PPE but overall mentally he was ok. I don’t know if I would be.