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[North Shore]

Somewhere in another thread on here is some talk about poor driving habits.  And *that* ^ is one of them!  How f**kin difficult is it to merge?! If you can't do it competently onto a highway, regardless of traffic conditions, you shouldn't be on the highway in the first place.

 

 

He wasn't trying to merge

 

 

He was not trying to merge.  This was a deliberate strategy to make the left turn there.

 

Sorry, my post was unclear.  I realise that buddy was not trying to merge, and was deliberately trying to make an (illegal?) left turn across 3 lanes of traffic.  

My post was just a general complaint about people who can't use on-ramps/merge lanes properly, and stop, very dangerously, at the end of merge lanes.. 

[HB]

we hear ya

see it everyday

its so bad now they put signs on the highway showing people in simple child like drawings how to zipper merge

[VicHockeyFan]

And likely one he had done before, unfortunately.

 

Art Lawrence, who manages the RV park, said he had seen Quirk make that illegal left turn in the past and warned him that it was dangerous.

 

Lawrence said other residents also have made the left turn instead of driving up to the U-turn route at Shawnigan Lake Road.

 

“We see people doing it all the time,” Lawrence said. “We can only tell them through experience that it’s dangerous.”

 

Patterson, who has long advocated for barriers along the centre of the Malahat highway, said a median could have prevented the crash by making a left turn impossible.

 

“This is a 110 per cent preventable incident,” he said.

 

 

 

That crash is 110% preventable if the van driver obeys several rules.  

 

Look, we could make it no left turns from Victoria to Campbell River, and we'd prevent many crashes too.

[Bingo]

That crash is 110% preventable if the van driver obeys several rules.  

 

Look, we could make it no left turns from Victoria to Campbell River, and we'd prevent many crashes too.

 

And they could put the concrete dividers down the center line tomorrow in the Malahat Village.

[VicHockeyFan]

And they could put the concrete dividers down the center line tomorrow in the Malahat Village.

 

They could probably put in a 8" raised curb to prevent that turn. 

[HB]

they should do that at every merge lane including helmcken and millstream and other place where idiots think its ok to fly across thick solid white lines and fly sideways into the travel lanes

[HB]

And they could put the concrete dividers down the center line tomorrow in the Malahat Village.

Yes that would cure the issue of crossing over the yellow but it still doesn't cure stupidity

[Sparky]

[Bingo]

Yes that would cure the issue of crossing over the yellow but it still doesn't cure stupidity

 

We need to start a separate thread for stupdity.

It shouldn't take long.

[Bingo]

Where has he been for the last 40 years?

 

The former chair of the CRD Traffic Safety Commission is calling for a second route over the Malahat.

This, after some frustrated drivers yelled at emergency crews trying to clear a fatal accident scene Thursday night, while others tried to ignore the closed area and drive through the crash site.

Foord says it could take 20 years to get it done, but it must happen and the planning should start now.

http://www.iheartrad...lahat-1.2108100

[Sparky]

^ There already is one.

[VicHockeyFan]

Once they have a divider pretty much over the whole thing, complete closures should be very rare.  They should be able to work a system to use the other side from the crash.

[phx]

Once they have a divider pretty much over the whole thing, complete closures should be very rare.  They should be able to work a system to use the other side from the crash.

 

Maybe the could, but they usually like to shut everything down.

[VicHockeyFan]

Maybe the could, but they usually like to shut everything down.

 

Isn't that because they want to re-create the accident and analyze the scene, and the crash usually involves traffic both ways?  Presumably when a divider is in place, most accidents only involve one way traffic.

[HB]

this recent accident had a number of witnesses.

the witness accounts should be enough to lay blame.

 

No real need to measure everything but I suppose Rob Patterson would miss out making accusations to the media and he wouldn't be able to see himself on TV

 

he is really one of a kind you never see any other fire chief with such an abrasive personality and with all the accusation that I claim are fabricated the place was crawling with cops but not one has gone on record to support his claim that people at the accident scene were yelling at them.

I was there and I stand by my claim and am calling Patterson out on this

[HB]

Maybe the yelling was taking place at Westhore and TCh where people were held back causing a huge parking lot. I can see it happening there and Rob embellishing by making it sound like it happened at the Bungalow site

[Bingo]

I don't know, the only yelling that seems to be going on is happening on this thread. Let's give it a rest.

[HB]

Yelling on a the web is characterized by CAPS lock

[HB]

I remember as a kid there was a  truck that wiped in the Goldstream park Section and spilled its load of Coca Cola products all over the place. Seems that every kid in Langford road their bikes down there to get their hands on some free product

[Mike K.]

Ha!