You go on Deerfoot during rush hour and the traffic is going 50 km/h if you're lucky. People I know that used to live in the large USA cities (Detroit, Chicago) tell me that rush hour traffic speeds are at the speed limit if not higher. Plus people actually merge into traffic at the same speed as traffic because they have no choice. If they don't they get run over.
Why isn't it like that here?
My theory - A lot of Calgarians are not born and raised in Calgary. Many come from rural areas from Western and Atlantic Canada. They don't know how to handle the speed in heavy traffic. You get a farmer driving his pickup truck on Deerfoot and it causes hundreds of other vechicles to slow down behind him. It only takes a small percentage of slow vechicles to make Deerfot into a parking lot.
Does anyone live in any of the larger US cities that can back me up on this or am I crazy?
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