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jayswin · 09-11-2007, 02:05 AM

You can get an idea just from this thread why driving in Calgary is a mess... Everyone has their own idea of what safe/proper driving is. In a lot of city's I have been to, there seems to be a certain "way" to drive IE: In most cities in europe you WILL stay away from the fast lane if your not going to drive fast or you WILL hear about it. It tends to work well, people just follow the unwritten rules of the road and people who want to drive slow have their lane(s) to do so and the people who want to drive fast have their lane(s) to do so. In some cities in the US, the traffic actually flows quite slowly, but it flows, because everyone seems to drive the same way

Then you get to Calgary and everyone seems to have a big ego about driving habits. Everyone has their "way" of driving and they think everyone who doesn't drive their way is a ######bag. We have the speed demons (I'll admit to being one of them at times) who think they're entitled to drive 140 and everyone's an a**hole if they don't get out of their way. The you have the people who just barely go the speed limit in the left lane and think everyone on their bumper is an a**hole.

Let's face it, Calgary just doesn't have a :driving identity" like many major cities have, and that's the reason for a lot of the pissed off people on the road.

I guess the one thing that sticks out about Calgary for me, is the fact that in a lot of cities, the speeders are aloud to speed and the slower drivers just laugh when they get caught, where as in Calgary it seems that the slower drivers tend to try and be the police by blocking speeders and saying "yeah, well it's MY RIGHT to drive in the fast lane because I'm going the speed limit". Overall Calgary just seems to have a bad mix of really fast drivers and really slow drivers, yet no real system of keeping them apart (which many eurpeon cities have, and it works REALLY well), which makes for some really crappy traffic to drive in.

09-11-2007, 02:05 AM	#148
jayswin Celebrated Square Root Day Join Date: Mar 2006 Exp:	You can get an idea just from this thread why driving in Calgary is a mess... Everyone has their own idea of what safe/proper driving is. In a lot of city's I have been to, there seems to be a certain "way" to drive IE: In most cities in europe you WILL stay away from the fast lane if your not going to drive fast or you WILL hear about it. It tends to work well, people just follow the unwritten rules of the road and people who want to drive slow have their lane(s) to do so and the people who want to drive fast have their lane(s) to do so. In some cities in the US, the traffic actually flows quite slowly, but it flows, because everyone seems to drive the same way Then you get to Calgary and everyone seems to have a big ego about driving habits. Everyone has their "way" of driving and they think everyone who doesn't drive their way is a ######bag. We have the speed demons (I'll admit to being one of them at times) who think they're entitled to drive 140 and everyone's an ahole if they don't get out of their way. The you have the people who just barely go the speed limit in the left lane and think everyone on their bumper is an ahole. Let's face it, Calgary just doesn't have a :driving identity" like many major cities have, and that's the reason for a lot of the pissed off people on the road. I guess the one thing that sticks out about Calgary for me, is the fact that in a lot of cities, the speeders are aloud to speed and the slower drivers just laugh when they get caught, where as in Calgary it seems that the slower drivers tend to try and be the police by blocking speeders and saying "yeah, well it's MY RIGHT to drive in the fast lane because I'm going the speed limit". Overall Calgary just seems to have a bad mix of really fast drivers and really slow drivers, yet no real system of keeping them apart (which many eurpeon cities have, and it works REALLY well), which makes for some really crappy traffic to drive in.