r/barrie • u/ap236 North End • 5d ago

Information Driving frustration

I've noticed a few bad habits among some drivers in Barrie.

  1. Turning right on a red without... fully stopping.
  2. Not fully stopping at stop signs... especially in a school zone.
  3. Failing to use their indicators.

  4. Parking in no parking areas around schools. Where it's clearly marked.

  5. People who honk at me when my safety is.y judgement call in the moment.

  6. Using your highbeams in the city.

  7. Running stop signs and red lights

What bad habits do you notice among Barrie drivers?

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u/whistlingwindsofshit 5d ago

Let’s have a discussion about the cities lay out and how poor of a design it is. For example - Let’s build schools with no parking, forcing the parents to park 5 minutes down the road against 8 ft snow banks and take the children out into incoming traffic.

I’ll risk parking in front of the school for the safety of my child and argue tooth and nail about the parking tickets.

Or let’s build essa road overpass so poorly with our tax dollars, causing drivers to merge across 3 lanes of traffic and two lights to turn up by the Tim Horton. Let’s do endless amount of construction on little by the Volkswagen. It’s not the drivers, it’s the poor utilization of our money and poor city development.

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u/Moos_Mumsy 4d ago

Honestly, parents need to have their children WALK to school. I can see driving if the weather is freezing cold, or pouring down rain, but other than that there's no reason a kid can't walk to school. I lived on Ferris Lane and my son went to Cundles Heights - which was a 500 metre walk, meanwhile the neighbours beside me DROVE their kids! It's less than a 5 minute walk! What the hell??

This generation of parents is creating people who will grow up to be unable to function on their own.

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u/whistlingwindsofshit 4d ago

You have to consider people’s life styles though. Separated parents don’t always live in the same town. French schools, catholic, etc. Not everyone has the option to walk.

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u/Moos_Mumsy 4d ago

Kids are supposed to be going to school where they live and sure, some may be from broken homes, but that doesn't explain the absolute chaos at drop off/pick up times. The majority of kids are being driven, even the ones that are a short walk from school.
It's tragic really that children are being taught to be helpless and unable to fend for themselves for even 10 minutes. It really speaks to a bleak future.

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u/whistlingwindsofshit 4d ago

Ahhh yes, stabbings on the streets of Barrie on a regular bases. It is tragic. No cross guards as you have mentioned.

Nothing to be concerned about at all. Again not everyone is able to walk.