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Old 10-21-2007, 03:19 PM   #95
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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda View Post
it baffles me why people feel the need to wait until they're actually ON deerfoot to speed up to 100, instead of doing the common sense thing and doing that on the merge lane so they don't cause backups all along that road
There's two reasons; which both go back to driver training. First is people see the sign when they start to exit that says "Ramp speed 60 km/h." Because of a lack of training, they think if they exceed 60 prior to seeing a 100 sign on Deerfoot; that they are speeding and could get a ticket. The second factor is that so many people are so set in getting where they are going; is they do not realize that their one action can cause 20 people to slow down. Then 2 out of those 20 do something else that causes another 40 to slow down, then 4 out of 40, then eventually you have gridlock.
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