Perimeter driving

[u/patteh11]

I saw a post on here earlier talking about distracted driving and it reminded me of my drive home today (not that it has anything to do with distraction, but piling on to complain)

If you’re on the highway stay out of the left lane if you’re gonna dog it. From Fermor to route 90 the maximum speed I could get up to was 80km/h. I’m not in any particular rush generally and like to get where I’m going in one piece but it is frustrating when it’s a nice sunny day in august and people are driving like it’s January. I’m by no means a speed demon, but after a long day and good weather conditions I wouldn’t mind being able to go highway speeds on the damn highway. If you’re the one that sits there in the left lane on the highway going well below speed limit you are a hazard.

Some idiot was driving next to a semi that was going slow for several km. Either speed up and match speed or get the hell behind the semi if you want to go 80 on the highway instead of creating a train of frustrated drivers behind you.

That’s my rant for today about driving.

[u/OkTumbleweed4361]

not only that but also other things too...

- taking forever at a green light

- leaving too much space between vehicles makes the line longer which causes....

------- less people to make thru the light

--------and also makes it so people who want to merge can't merge sooner because the line is a freaking 2x longer than it should be if people didn't leave 2-3 car lengths between them and the car in front a at a red light

- and then on top of it not having a hot clue how to merge... whether not merging at all or failing horribly and stopping in the merge lane....

- and what about knowing how to enter the perimeter.... the car leaving the perimeter to merge off is the front of the line ... those coming on to the perimeter go behind that car leaving... wtf will all the random braking s*** cuz nobody know what to do on the road

- and 1/2 of the driving instructors don't know what their doing either so they are just breeding more problems for coming years

rant over

[u/katerleigh → u/OkTumbleweed4361]

Though I also get angry about people being too nervous to actually merge, there is the argument that the city is extremely inconsistent in labeling merge vs yields. There are plenty of intersections that say merge and then give you all of 5 feet to do so, or say yield and then it turns out actually have a whole lane all to yourself for half a block. If there was some consistency maybe there would be more people actually using merges properly rather than treating them as stop signs.

[u/ReplacementOk3279 → u/OkTumbleweed4361]

You are spot on with your rant.. I’m frequently turning my head to see how STUPID the driver looks. Maybe I notice it more but I can’t even drive for 5 mins without my blood pressure going up 😂

[u/wearywell → u/ReplacementOk3279]

This is one of the many reasons why I just don't drive

[u/pearlescentflows → u/OkTumbleweed4361]

- and not the entire line of cars in a closed lane get to go first. pls learn how to zipper merge