I have not been to Winnipeg for a long time so can`t comment on your drivers. From what I can recall atleast in Winnipeg if the someone cut you off they would at least go, here they are in a hurry to cut you off and then slowly wonder what if anything to do next. Just kind of sit there in your way! Here 10% are in the Indy500, 60% are tourists with no where to go, no hurry to get there and the rest are decent drivers. Not a good average. Some sit through 2 green lights and go on a red!

 

Put it this way. A cab cut me off, so I honked at him. What does he do?? He SHOOTS ME THE FINGER!! Like I did something wrong, when hes the one that just about killed me and my family. Thats what most drivers are like here.

 

Man people do not know how to park days after the snow syorm here.
I drove into the city today and on a couple major roadways the snow was graded up to the curb as best as the city could do for now so traffic can drive.
Then you get these idiots that park their cars with one wheel in the lane the other half into the curb lane. Traffic could move only one car at a time and this is roadways that has two lanes for traffic in both directions.
I beleive the city can ticket these offenders because they are impeding traffic flow and creating a hazard.
Man if there is no room to park there move elsewhere.

 

Ya, they bug me too. Every time you see one parked like that just give them a little nudge with your Bobcat! How are you doing Glen, see you at the meeting.

 

Yesterday some kid in a escort would not let me merge onto to Circle drive. I'm a ahead of him so I had to step on it. He then puts on the gas and goes to the left hand lane and passes me then swings back at my fender. I jam the brakes and now my truck has a bad vibration.
I find so many people do not know the law about merge lanes. If you are in the main traffic lanes and a car is merging on you are to mave over to the left lane to let the car on. Then you can move back to the right lane when safe to do so. I find so many people do not want to move over and think they have the right away. I seen one accident caused by this. The guy in merge lane had no where to go. Guard rail or the idoit who would not move over. Idiot lost. Even with the insurance, they deemed him at fault as I witnessed it. THe guy merging could not slow down because of the cars behind him also were gaining speed and if he slowed or stopped, then he would be at fault.

 

I hate people trying to drive and talk on cell phones.

 

I agree. Seen a few fender benders caused for that reason.
I have a friend who does all his business on that phone while driving. He tends to wander in the lanes. I said why not get a headset.
Kudos to those I see pulled over along the highway and talking. They are being safe and respectful of others saftey.
Now here is one I saw last summer on the highway.
This girl was doing her hair, on the cell phone, applying makeup and driving with her knees. Car was probally put on cruise. Talk about mutitasking and causing multiple injurys to everyone in an accident.

 

A friend of mine was in TO and didn't realize he was in a merge lane. The guy behind him got out of his car, walked over to his car and said, and I quote: " If I had been almost anyone else around here, I would have pulled a gun out and walked over here and got your *** moving. My advice is, DON'T STOP IN A MERGE LANE!!!" (or something along that line).
Kinda freaky isn't it.

 

Hi 85B2Owner. What a nice uptight world we have created for ourselves. The price of progress? To much road rage, glad that I am not living in some of the larger Americn cities, that would be totaly wild.

 

Well fixed the universal joint that was damaged when putting on the binders for the kids who tried hitting my truck. The joint had one cap that was dry and some of the needle bearings were flat. Further damge was the same cap had cracked from those bearing piling on top of eacj other and the this also cracked the yoke where the cap sits. Lucky I had a spare yoke on a 76 ford here of the same size. Now the truck does not vibrate anymore.

 

I have a vibration in my 67 Mustang which could be a rear axle bearing. Noticed a leak in the rear axle seal and hope the bearing maybe the cause.

 

Not much snow here in South Texas but lots of bad drivers of other sorts. I think I will have to give one vote each for 66gpw on those passing the pack and the second equal vote for loud music and especially boom boxes.

 

I thought the law about merging lanes was the merger does not have the right of way, however it is common decency to move over and let them in, but not law.

 

Here in Saskatchewan it is the law. The main flow traffic is suspose to move to the left to let the merging traffic obtain optimun speed to blend in with the highway traffic. If you are the main flow and cannot move to the left you are to reduce speed to let them in. (providing they are near highway speed of the mainflow) It is illegal for merging traffic to slow down or stop. This causes accidents by the cars following them and are building up speed to merge. Now they suddenly either hit the brakes or veer to the side and maybe off the road.
It would seem the decent thing to do, but not all drivers are decent people.

 

I agree, it is common courtesy for the moving traffic to move over to the left lane to let oncoming vehicles merge in to traffic. The person you encountered was a jerk, for cutting back over to fast, upset because he had to move over...

Looking at it from another viewpoint, my rant is on the flip side a bit. IN MY STATE, moving to the left lane for mergers is a courtesy action, not a law. I have never heard of such a law, because unless they provide a SEPERATE open merge lane, there is no way to assure a open left lane for the right lane user to get over in to, on a two lane highway ,one way bound. I have had to avoid getting side swiped once a week for years now, from ON merging traffic, because the merging driver is NOT EVEN looking , to see if they can merge safely , they are just ASSUMING it is cleared for them . !!!! ..

I get in these situations a lot here where I drive, two lanes one way, with no merge lanes for oncoming traffic. Traffic is bumper to bumper, and congested at the on ramps. I have MANY times been doing the speed limit in the right lane, get ready to move over to the left as I came up to a known ON ramp, so the oncomers have a open lane to merge in on, but the drivers are packed in the left lane, 20 foot apart doing 55 mph, and RIGHT beside my drivers door , SO I CANNOT get over in the left lane, unless I do something stupid like your guy did , and cut someone off doing 55 mph. No thanks, my insurance is high enough at it is..


IN MY STATE, if people will notice while driving up on to ON ramps, there is at the entrance of them a big yellow triangular sign that reads : YIELD . People do not seem to understand that it doesnt matter how many drivers are pushing them up the on ramp, it is their responsibilty, as the first one entering, to YEILD to the traffic existing on the main two lane one way traffic flow. ..

IN MY STATE , those people pushing drivers up the ramp have the liabilty on THEM, if they hit the driver in front of them in the rearend while going up the on ramp, if that driver in front of them had to slow down because of NOT being able to merge. YES, those people that will not accelerate and merge , are a menace to all of us, but sometimes it just happens , and the ones behind them had better maintain the LEGAL distance between vehicles to allow for stopping, or the rear ender pays .. ..

IN MY STATE, if you are the first one entering the flow of traffic, while being PUSHED, and do NOT yield and hit a right lane driver, it is YOUR fault, you will pay. Those that pushed you up the ramp, will just drive by and wave , while you pay the price forever in higher premiums for pushing your way in to traffic. I am thinking about buying a beat up old f250, and let these non yielding, "not even looking" on rampers, sideswipe me whenever I cannot get over. Then, while they are struggling to pay their insurance premium hike, I will take their money and finish up my project truck... all jmo