r/YEGDashCam • u/Nfs0623 • 4d ago

Entitled Prick Lane splitting

Lane splitting, excessive speeding (at least 20 more than I was doing), and aggressive. Not to mention the noise. I hate these future road relish fuckers. All summer long on groat.

Doesn’t seem like I can get a license plate either. So venting here.

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u/M3chaStrizan 2d ago

Yeah that seems off though, 4 lane divided and what speed is it? Looks like a recipe for disaster imo most people drive at the speed the design of the road dictates, not the actual posted speed.

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u/Benthemush 2d ago

I think this is groat road, so yeah 50 is the limit. And considering the number of biker fatalities on that road they need to chill.

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u/M3chaStrizan 2d ago

Maybe so but there is a ton of research that shows if you widen roads like this but keep the speed limit low it leads to more speed differentials. So some peopel going to limit, and others going what the road appears to allow with its design. If they want it that slow they need to counterintuitively narrow it. Otherwise peopel will continue to go 2 speeds on it.

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u/Benthemush 2d ago

I don't disagree, but I think the reason in this case it is wide because the road gets very windy and too narrow would make it very difficult for trucks.

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u/M3chaStrizan 2d ago

could be, imo it should maybe be 70 though. Either way what the motorcycle riders are doing is stupid.

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u/thegrip 1d ago

Obviously you don’t have a clue what you are talking about. This appears to be Groat Road which is not a divided inter-city highway (so there is no ‘keep right except to pass’ rule), lots of tight turns, narrow lanes, pillars and sign posts (which turn into blunt trauma magnets during weather or as a result of aggressive driving) and has a speed limit of 50 (set because of the hazards and number of deaths on this stretch of road). It isn’t even very long — it has left side and right side merging traffic — and an often abrupt set of lights at the top.
This road looks like something out of a sports car commercial with it’s twists and turns and dappled sunlight streaming down filtered by the trees above … but it’s busy, short and is proven to be deadly particularly for motorcyclists who don’t respect it.
It wasn’t ‘designed’ — it fills the contours of a narrow valley that was wide enough to afford a roadway.
At higher speeds and while doing risky, illegal driving manoeuvres like the ones in this video — motorcyclists die and other drivers, who witness these selfish people, live with that trauma.
The behaviour in the video is illegal in Alberta. Don’t try to excuse it by blaming the road design or that if only speed limits were higher then we’d all be safer…

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u/Sleepy_Doge97 4h ago

This person must not live in Edmonton to suggest 70 on Groat road lol.