okay really people

[heep-a-lop]

okay this has been bugging me all summer and this winter what is with people....  if your on a signal lane highway and someone goes to pass u why do u speed up?  and i dont mean abit... crap i came up on someoen doing 80 on the balzac highway yesterday and went to pass they where doing 120 when i was at there door looking at me liek why dotn i pass... well seriously i can see 5 or 10 kms not 40.....

it seems to have gotten worse since the crap roads... 

then to add to things when u barely get around them they ride your arse like your going slow for 5 k then realize they are driving fast...... honestly

end rant

its a drag race everywhere  u go... i dotn mind it in the buick but crap the jeep dont have that kinda passing power( 110 to 160 is like 2 seconds maybe 3 love the booost)

[Rubi03 jef]

welcome to alberta ..  with time ull notice that 95% of the people in this provence cant drive for there lives


but maybe santa will bring those people driver ed courses

[Hi Lo Silver]

I'd agree with that number. 95% is probably the number  of people that have moved here in the last 20 years, and you're right they came here with no driving skills and lack that Calgarian friendliness.

jeep-a-lop, take care when that happens. Few years ago, some jack arse pulled that on a gal heading to Radium causing her to hit head on into oncoming traffic that killed her.  He did get caught and charged much later due to witnesses but that didn't help her any.

[JohnB]

but maybe santa will bring those people driver ed courses

That won't help.  You either want to be a good driver or you don't.  Enforcement might be able to make a dent, but first someone would need to teach most of the cops how to drive as well.

[heep-a-lop]

yeah been here all my life 29 now 10 years ago it wasnt this bad drivers ed has failed in many ways, horrible drivers have been teacing and imigration is not helping.....  i grew up small town and all i can say is i was taught totally different when it came to drivers ed..

i mean basics like driving down a residential street and turning right and changing lanes to the curb lane to get out of peoples way...

and really just cause it snows doesnt mean it goes from 2 lanes to your drive down the middle of both...

yeah and i dont think enforcment will help when every one enforcing has a different way of lookin at it.... like u said some of the worst are the enforcers


makes me think twice about the gaynes of a unibody and crumple zones.... i dont mind driving over stupid people just like it to make it through it


but sure am glad to have 4wd back the 4 auto in the 242 is kinda cool awd with lots of rwd tendencies makes for fun corners

[RUBICON13]

Glad I am not the only one to think the drivers in this area are the worst in Canada (and I have driven in dozens of third world countries too so, I know bad driving).

[mike s]

It has nothing to do with drive skill or drivers education. People here turn into assholes behind the wheel of a car. Most people here aren't from here so I'm not picking on Calgary drivers, there's just alot of arrogant buttheads here, wait....I'm here....

[Rubi03 jef]

It has EVERYTHING  to do with LACK OF  driver skill or LACK OF  drivers education. People here turn into assholes behind the wheel of a car. Most people here aren't from here so I'm not picking on Calgary drivers, there's just alot of arrogant buttheads here, wait....I'm here....

fixed it for you

[WK2008]

I was coming home from Edmonton today and passed a cop heading north with his cell phone to his ear. Talk about a joke lok


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[Rubi03 jef]

I was coming home from Edmonton today and passed a cop heading north with his cell phone to his ear. Talk about a joke lok


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come on didnt you hear there TRAINED properly to drive and talk on a phone .. thats what our tax payers dollars go to   that and those cute mount me hat they wear in the summer when they walk the streets

[Spinalguy]

Driving here is so easy and predictable. Try driving in the CITY of Toronto. It will make you appreciate how POLITE drivers in Calgary are. i love Calgary drivers.

[Rubi03 jef]

Driving here is so easy and predictable. Try driving in the CITY of Toronto. It will make you appreciate how POLITE drivers in Calgary are. i love Calgary drivers.

born and raised in MTL aka montreal .    u wanna talk about agressive drivers ..

[wackslappy]

What a lot of people don't really know is the law around the cell phone usage. You are allowed to be on the phone while dialling 911 or non emergency police numbers. Also the police are sometimes resorted to using their cells due to radios being down throughout the city of Calgary. Yes that's right? radios down in the city with all our technology Calgary police have to use their personal cell phones for police business. So i regards to some of the comments you need to educate yourselves before you rant & rave. I am the first person to call in a cop for bad driving and have done in the past  but most people can't be bothered to follow it up so it goes nowhere. You have to understand you have to be prepared to back it up and at least be willing to talk to their SGT to make sure disciplinary action is taken.

I agree on the whole bad driving. I was coming home the other day and a little punk arse kid in a white vw hatchback was riding my arse almost touching my bumper. I knew if i even tapped my braked to teach him a lesson then he would have hit me for sure. This was right after the last snow drop in town. I couldn't believe it we were in a residential neighbourhood going fast enough as it was. I slowed down to about 10km an hour and he was still ridding so i decided to come to a stop. He pulled down a street behind me and i tell you this kid had to be about 18 years old with no experience, never been in an accident, mummy and daddy bought his car for him. I just hope people like this find out the hard way before they kill others. Middle of night , no one around, they roll their car without hurting anyone else and get royally humbled.

i try not to wish bad things on people but when they jeopardize my life and the life of others in the vehicle with me they deserve to either get punched out or their vehicle wrecked at the very least. I am not best driver in the world but find that driving in the NE of Calgary is like a game of frogger. Sooner or later you are bound to get into an accident but i would rather be in an accident due to something that couldn't be helped and both parties understand what happened instead of one party being completely oblivious of their actions because that's not how they drove back in their country. You live in Canada and you must learn how to drive accordingly. They need to stop giving out driving instructor licences to those who just pass their own ethnicity. There needs to be ongoing screening and testing if this is gonna happen. I am sorry but when i go pass an old Somalian lady who can barely see over the steering wheel and driving in two lanes, no signals used for the whole time and going about 20 km /hour in an 80 zone something needs to change.

I recently found out from plates that old people that can't drive you can report to the registry and they will indeed retest and put a note on their file to make sure they can still drive , also a did bit of information in regards to road rage, bad drivers, people breaking the law. You can report it on non emerg , and do a statement and the registered owner will still get a ticket in regards to their actions. You have to be willing to go to court but 9/10 they can't be bothered either and pay the fine. It is a pain but i truly believe that no one has the right to complain if they can't be bothered to do anything!!!

[jpthing]

Driving here is so easy and predictable. Try driving in the CITY of Toronto. It will make you appreciate how POLITE drivers in Calgary are. i love Calgary drivers.

Ya, Toronto is a whole other realm...you will see nicely dressed middle aged women standing in traffic, waiting on the painted road lines, playing "frogger"...and if you stop for them they get mad.

One highly positive thing about Calgary drivers is that they are usually very respectful of pedestrians...I have never been anywhere else where you can be standing on the street and cars will repeatedly stop for you even though you are not crossing....drivers in Montreal will actually peg the gas when there are pedestrians, you'll be crossing and a car will come and you will distictly hear the revs increase when they see you!

[JackstandJohnny]

I recently found out from plates that old people that can't drive you can report to the registry and they will indeed retest and put a note on their file to make sure they can still drive , also a did bit of information in regards to road rage, bad drivers, people breaking the law. You can report it on non emerg , and do a statement and the registered owner will still get a ticket in regards to their actions. You have to be willing to go to court but 9/10 they can't be bothered either and pay the fine. It is a pain but i truly believe that no one has the right to complain if they can't be bothered to do anything!!!

so what you're saying is all i need is your license plate and i can say you've done all this illegal stuff and all i have to do is goto court to justify it?

so if i want, i can say i saw you doing burnouts and donuts, then ran a crosswalk, flipped off a nun and drove through a park, and all I have to do to make that stick is tell the lie to a judge?  it will be my word against whose? yours in court?  i guess best case scenario is you are forced to goto court to defend things you didn't do and it gets thrown out.

kind of funny.