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#2421 FogPub

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Posted 08 September 2024 - 04:33 PM

Most stop signs should be yield signs anyway; or, for 4-ways, "yield to traffic on right".



#2422 Tony

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Posted 09 September 2024 - 07:04 AM

That is currently the rule if there are no stop sign in all directions?



#2423 Mike K.

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Posted 09 September 2024 - 07:06 AM

If there are no stop signs in all directions, traffic without stop signs doesn’t have to stop or yield under any circumstance*.

*obvs if something is in the way

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#2424 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 09 September 2024 - 07:10 AM

In the absence of traffic lights, stop or yield signals, the first vehicle to reach the intersection gets the right-of-way.

 

In general, in both controlled and uncontrolled intersections, if multiple vehicles arrive simultaneously, the driver to your right always takes precedence. For roundabouts, always yield to oncoming traffic and pedestrians crossing from all directions before signaling when exiting.

 

 

https://rates.ca/res...-what-right-way


Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 September 2024 - 07:10 AM.


#2425 Mike K.

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Posted 09 September 2024 - 07:17 AM

That can be perceived to mean two different things.

No stop signs “In all directions,” can mean there are directions with, and without stop signs at this intersection.

“In all directions” can also mean no stop signs at all.

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#2426 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 09 September 2024 - 07:19 AM

Good practice is "don't enter or cross another road unless it is safe to do so".


Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 September 2024 - 07:19 AM.


#2427 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 30 December 2024 - 12:22 AM

LETTER: Bicycle lanes aren't calming Victoria traffic

 

Cyclists account for only small percentage of Victoria road users
 
 

 

 

I slip out the front door on an hourly basis for a 10-minute break and while there I contemplate the passing flow of traffic along my stretch of Shelbourne Street. On average, I see 50 automobiles pass by, of which there are an average of two Teslas, sometimes even three or four. In addition, there are usually two bicycles during that same period. On an hourly basis that would amount to 300 automobiles including 24 or more Teslas and just 24 bicycles. So, I ask myself, why the city has dedicated 50% of the roadway to bicycles when they account for far less than 1% of the road users.

 

One often-used argument is that bicycle lanes serve as traffic-calming devices that reduce accidents. Judging by the angry glares of passing drivers forced to idle behind recycle and garbage trucks, etc., I’d say that city council is living in an alternate reality to us average Joes. What do you think?

 

 

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This guy lives on Shelbourne.  Goes out for 10 minutes of every hour and counts cars.   What section can he possibly live on with so little traffic?  Shelbourne just north of McKenzie can get up to 1,100 cars per hour.  Now, that probably goes down a lot by the time you get to Mt. Doug Park, but I'm still sure it's over 300 per hour.


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#2428 FogPub

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Posted 31 December 2024 - 02:47 AM

^It'd vary widely by time of day (assuming daylight hours rather than night, which is of course lower) and time of week, I think.


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#2429 Tony

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Posted 31 December 2024 - 09:10 AM

Do the numbers reported add up on his section of Shelbourne?



#2430 Sparky

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Posted 31 December 2024 - 09:38 AM

I think he smokes too much.

#2431 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 31 December 2024 - 09:42 AM

^ ya!
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#2432 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 12 January 2025 - 08:10 AM

Where has all the bike parking gone?

I went to Central Junior from 1956 to 1959. At that time, the paved area in the school yard running parallel to Fort Street east of Moss to Fernwood had several rows of bike parking stalls.

I used them daily, they were always full. Most bikes had carriers for paper route deliveries after school.

Now that same area is all car parking, no bikes in sight. Isn’t that ironic with all the new bike lanes, in fact a new bike lane on Fort Street is 10 metres from the parking lot on school grounds.

I guess most of the kids today get to school by bus or parents dropping them off. So much for bike lanes.

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This guy just noticed now? Kids stopped riding bikes a couple decades ago.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 12 January 2025 - 08:11 AM.


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Posted 20 January 2025 - 11:08 AM

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