After midnight or in the evening?
The Bad Drivers of Ontario Thread
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Sorry to hear about that.
There’s racing around here somewhere every weekend. I haven’t bothered to go looking for it, but a part of me wants to see it.
Mind you there the closest industrial plaza is Winston Churchill / Dundas.
I think these guys are running Burnhamthorpe / Dundas / Mavis / Erin Mills loops as they’re all wide and straight.
11pm.. give or take.. usually gone by midnight.
Timing checks out. Police shifts end at midnight. They don't want to get sucked into that mess right before the end of their shift.
Most of us already know this, but...
Insane how much corruption there is. None of these people care about the fact that they’re issued / issuing licenses to a deathly weapon.
The schools just care about the money.
The students just care about getting the license so they can get the money.
Nothing else matters. Not like there are real consequences in our justice system.
Mikedezo44
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^^ Don't worry! Our transportation minister gives me great confidence he will tackle this problem head on. Sigh. Even with video evidence handed on a silver platter I'm sure all in the video are still employed, continuing their careers.
Mad Mike
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I remember the days when YRP tolerated street racing in Markham so long as there was no drinking.
Cars would assemble at McDs on Shepard Abe then roll up to the freshly paved 4 lane 17th Ave (Major Mac ).
A lookout would be staged in every direction in case YRP had a change of heart. They used CB radios to connect with the starters, if trouble was coming racing stopped and everyone mosied away.
It kept racers away from innocent bystanders.
I've been driving up the 410 since it was first built and I saw something that I had never seen before; a Peel cop chasing down a moron who ripped up the right-most northbound lane and then cut across the Steeles ramp, and the gore point, to get around traffic he deemed to be moving too slowly. BTW, 110 Kmh in the slow lane was the 'too slow.'
Back in the day we used to "street race" on 5th Line, north of Dundas in Mississauga. It was before there was "Erin Mills" and 5th Line was a dead end off Dundas and the cops would close off the road at Dundas with 2 cruisers with the lights on and let us have at it almost every saturday night during the summer. Now there's a police station on the corner.
We used to have regular " track days" at the Sheridan Research every Sunday morning. It would start around 8 in the morning and we had to be gone by noon. Sometimes the cops would come and watch, but they never bothered us (... well... not NEVER... but seldom) We had pits and corner workers with flags. It's where I started road racing.
We tried to do the same thing when they were building up the Matheson/Eastgate area but the cops would have none of it
We used to have regular " track days" at the Sheridan Research every Sunday morning. It would start around 8 in the morning and we had to be gone by noon. Sometimes the cops would come and watch, but they never bothered us (... well... not NEVER... but seldom) We had pits and corner workers with flags. It's where I started road racing.
We tried to do the same thing when they were building up the Matheson/Eastgate area but the cops would have none of it
Mad Mike
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Similar experience, different turf.
Funny coincidence, in the early 70s my dad took me to Sheridan Research park to race 5hp mini bikes around pylon course on Sunday mornings
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Actually, I'm impressed. Zoom in on a half-decent monitor and you can still see where the pavement for the ends of the oval used to be.
A friend's YZF600 met its end there ...
Many bikes met their end there, or were at least scarred for life.The oval?
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Actually, I'm impressed. Zoom in on a half-decent monitor and you can still see where the pavement for the ends of the oval used to be.
A friend's YZF600 met its end there ...
Around that time a bunch of co-workers bought minibikes and raced them up and down the road to the Don Valley Ski Centre. The Don Valley Grand Prix.
TK4
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There were a few miscreants that had a grand prix through the private roads of IBM at Leslie and Eglinton too. The security guards would come and chase them out.
Single vehicle MVC. Bus into jersey barrier and stuck on tracks in Barrie. Beauty. It would be interesting to know how much damage was done. If they tried to put much power through the driveshaft with the rear diff aimed in the wrong direction, things could get expensive.
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