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Originally Posted by Dion
From my experience those that speed (not saying you REDVAN) for the most part are a danger to everyone else on the road and i'm not talking Deerfoot per say. Unsafe lane changes to get ahead of some other driver. Tailgating because they are frustrated with the speed of traffic. Even worse are the speeders who think they can handle bad weather conditions.
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I disagree with this, in my experience, speeders are more attentive than the average driver. Granted you still have the occasional massive D-Bag with a primer-colored front fender and a coffee-can muffler weaving through traffic like a drunk, but that guy is a lot more rare than than the butthole talking on his phone who hasn't looked in his mirrors for the last five minutes, or the teenager on their third car who figures that text message is more important than looking at the road.
Then there's still those people that just can't drive. They don't understand why someone might be mad at them after they've been doing 95 in the left on Deerfoot. They signal when they're already in an exit lane with no choice of direction to go and they don't signal when changing lanes. When turning right, they go directly into the left lane and when turning left, they go directly into the right lane. They stop to merge in free-flow lanes. They don't plan their route, when it comes time to turn they have to make an emergency double-lane change. Yet I'm the one with a bunch of demerits on my license for breaking a speed limit that's outdated by a couple decades? Yahoo.
Between these dinks behind the wheel and driver inattentiveness (i.e. including anything phone related), you have the true source of a large majority of traffic accidents. Why don't the laws change to reflect this? Because these dinks and inattentive drivers account for a lot of votes (unfortunately), and votes, not public safety are what matters.