Since this topic is going several ways, I'll add a couple random thoughts. Deerfoot is one lane too narrow on each side...blame that on poor city planning in the Rod Sykes days.
To that, I think anyone, on either side of this debate, and anyone who ever drives Deerfoot, should drive the stretch of 4 lane wide (in each way) freeway between Trudeau airport and Montreal downtown for a lesson on freeway driving.
Although the left lane may be "courtesy" in theory, a couple trips there, and if you don't have your wits about you and know what you're doing and where you're going, your in big trouble, because everyone down there is complely confident and fully aware of where other cars are, like drivers are usually ok at here on roads with 70km speedlimits....except there, withthe same level of awareness, at speeds over over 110, which would be considered "crazy" or "reckless" if it was on the Deerfoot.
The issue in Deerfoot is confidence....too many people who're driving overly cautious and borderline scared, which is causing a complete lack of knowledge of who and what's going on around them....a share of people driving a bit too agressively on their own, and as a result of those driving overcautiously.
On the further ends of the specutrum, you have people completely intimitaded on there and people that are weaving in and out on the other end. You even have a small percentage who feel its there right to act as the righteous John P. Traffic Officer and bung up the left lane at under 90kph intentionally.
Cellphone drivers are another issue entirely.
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