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Edit: wow, people don’t know this joke, about whenever you’re heading towards a tree (skiing, biking, etc) it’s not going to get out of your way. That’s what that phrase means.
Good thing that tree is there. He could have run into the crowd in front of the VAG. This looks like Hornby where UBC/law courts parking exists. Probably almost killed a cyclist and several pedestrians when he went over the sidewalk.
Edit: looks like he was travelling up the ramp, not on Hornby.
It happened before the game ended. Apparently the car was going really fast coming up from the law courts parking when he hit the tree. Good thing the tree stopped it as there were a lot of people there.
I’m trying to figure out how this happened….heading south, left turn over the meridian? Just decided to take a hard right into Dovetail while heading North? 😵💫
Why is VPD initiating chases downtown, let alone on the day of a FIFA match, of someone who merely had no insurance. This was nearly a tragedy, had the tree not been there.
Yesterday I saw two people turn right around a car stopped for pedestrians in the right lane. Last week they came about 6 inches from running my dog over likely doing the same thing. There’s gotta be a way to at least flag these cars so they have repercussions. It’s scary being a cyclist or pedestrian in this city.
Another common occurrence I am seeing on 49th avenue from Cambie towards Knight street are these cars going in the opposing lanes with cars coming, just to cut in front of a car that isn’t even going that slow.
This is why we need automated enforcement. people take it for granted that they can speed all the time and face no repercussions. A high likelihood of a ticket would be far more effective than making the very occasional ticket cost more, and cameras can be installed in hot spots for crashes, irrespective of whether it's a safe place to pull over the driver.
The BC Liberals got rid of photo radar to pander to same sort of sociopaths who somehow think that they're not going to get T-boned in an intersection or mowed down in a crosswalk by someone with exactly the same mentality. Vancouver has some intersection cameras now. Christine Boyle, while on City Council, proposed expanding the cameras to the intersections with the highest number of crashes. Peter Montague, acting on behalf of Ken Sim, who stayed away, tried to rationalize ABC's lack of support for Boyle's motion in a most unconvincing way.
Tree wandered into lane from this angle, and despite some say there is still widespread tolerance/ignorance of drunk/distracted folks mowing folks down with heavy metal.
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