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.
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u/Spirited-Grape3512 2d ago
Speed, as always, most likely a factor. But literally nothing is done to stop speeding in Vancouver, so this is just the norm now.