[wpgflamesfan]

Originally Posted by Sainters7

Agreed. I live in the 'chuk now and man is it dangerous! But its a different kind of dangerous up here than it is in Calgary. In Calgary everyone's going like 40km over the speed limit, ridin your ass like crazy, whipping in front of you, etc. Its pretty scary sometimes. But in Edmonton most people drive pretty slow, probably because of the ridiculously low speed limits they have here, and the ridiculously high enforcement they have for them(for example, for the first six years I had my license, living in both Calgary and Vancouver, I had two speeding tickets. In the last two years living in Edmonton, I have four. And I seriously am not some crazy driver either. You even go 10 over and you're gonna get busted. I got a photo radar ticket in St. Albert going 58 in a 50 driving by a school at 10pm, on a weekday! What the hell was he even doing there at that time?!?).

Anyways, people seem more defensive here, almost too defensive. I get guys like cutting me off and then immediately slamming on their breaks. This one time I had a guy slam on his breaks on St. Albert Trail(speed limit 70km/h, so almost the equivalent of just nailing on your breaks on MacLeod Trail) on a green light, because he wanted to turn left and didnt realize there was a big sign that said you cant turn left. I was shaking after that one. So theyre not as aggressive up here as they are in Calgary, just dumb and way too defensive. My gf told me a couple months ago Edmonton was picked by some magazine as having the worst drivers in Canada, Im not surprised. You really gotta watch out for people deciding to slam on their breaks in the middle of the road everywhere, I see it all the time

Ahh yes, the speed natzis of st.albert. You can't go 2 km/h over in that town without getting a ticket. Even if you have no defense and fully intend on paying the ticket go to court as it cost the government more than they will get from the ticket.