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[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by puckedoff

You feelin' OK bud? Are these your opinions or that of the woke mind virus?

huh

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by Looch City

Driving in this city would be 75% better if we simply banned all trucks.

Seriously. #### the trucks. Every Calgarian that owns a truck (that's not for business) should be forced to park it outside the city and drive a REGULAR sized vehicle into the city instead.

#### your trucks.

Trucks and large SUVs in the city are dumb; but hey, any way to protect that fragile masculinity your soul sucking office job takes from you.

https://www.livescience.com/358-masc...-war-suvs.html

[Jason14h]

Originally Posted by Cappy

Trucks and large SUVs in the city are dumb; but hey, any way to protect that fragile masculinity your soul sucking office job takes from you.

https://www.livescience.com/358-masc...-war-suvs.html

Do you expect everyone to buy an inner city driving car to go with their larger vehicle ?

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Jason14h

Do you expect everyone to buy an inner city driving car to go with their larger vehicle ?

Call me crazy but I think the suggestion is to buy smaller vehicles in the first place.

[Looch City]

Yes that's perfect. Pay up if you want the extra luxury of driving an obscenely large vehicle.

Already paying 70k+ for a truck, what's another 20k?

[ResAlien]

Speaking of car registration costs should be directly tied to the weight of your vehicle not the value.

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by ResAlien

Speaking of car registration costs should be directly tied to the weight of your vehicle not the value.

I think Germany does it based on the size of your engine. At least they used too.

Also, why does every single residential street have the biggest truck parked at the ends too close to the corner so you cannot see around them to turn into them.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by ResAlien

Speaking of car registration costs should be directly tied to the weight of your vehicle not the value.

Maybe. But that would drive up costs (and reduce uptake) of EVs.

[undercoverbrother]

fine #### y'all

[Table 5]

Why should EVs be exempt? Plenty of big ole EV's too....Hummers, Lightnings, Cybertrucks, Rivians etc.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Table 5

Why should EVs be exempt?

Because EV's magically don't put any strain on roads or bridges.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by nik-

Because EV's magically don't put any strain on roads or bridges.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by Looch City

Yes that's perfect. Pay up if you want the extra luxury of driving an obscenely large vehicle.

Already paying 70k+ for a truck, what's another 20k?

Us small car owners should get a direct share of that for having to maneuver around these beasts everywhere.

[topfiverecords]

Why is it so calm in here today and everyone seems to be in a great mood?

[Hemi-Cuda]

Come to a stop at a 4-way intersection at the same time as another car. If I try to let them go first, they won't, and we're left with a standoff of who hits the gas first. If I try to avoid that problem and just go first, then so do they and now it's even more awkward. Every time

[fotze2]

When I rule the world, I will make it a law that if your company uses the phrase "higher than normal call volume" or anything resembling that in way, the CEO, CFO and top people responsible for customer service and IT are publicly fisted by an AIDS infected razor wire wrapped telephone pole. There will be a channel broadcast free of charge.

This law will be retroactive back to 2010.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

Come to a stop at a 4-way intersection at the same time as another car. If I try to let them go first, they won't, and we're left with a standoff of who hits the gas first. If I try to avoid that problem and just go first, then so do they and now it's even more awkward. Every time

If I see that happening, I slow way up before the intersection, then do a complete stop. Most of the time you can avoid awkwardness that way.

[Galakanokis]

Yesterday, on my way home was a prime example of a pedestrian not crossing and causing havoc. Now lots to blame here but if the pedestrian crossed when they were supposed to nothing happens.

I am heading east, east-west has the stop signs and north-south is through. I see the lady and come to a complete, full stop. I even wave to acknowledge that I see her and proceed to wait. But no, she looks away. So I wait even more. She looks at me and waves me through. I shake my head and wave her through, you know like the law says. Meanwhile another car heading west but wanting to turn left stops at the intersection. You can see them get annoyed with me as technically I would have the right away if not for the pedestrian. After a full minute or two the pedestrian crosses. But by the time they are done a north bound vehicle approaches the intersection with no stop sign. The vehicle turning left is clearly pissed with me for not going so they pull out right in front of the north bound vehicle and bam! No serious damage but it was a tacoma with a bumper bar vs a mini. Nobody hurt but the mini was a little worse for wear. Tacoma might have been doing 25-30Kph.

Clearly the car turning left was at fault but if the pedestrian crosses when they were supposed to then I proceed through the intersection with no issues before the left turning car even approaches and nothing of consequence happens. I felt really bad for laughing at the whole thing just because of this thread yesterday. Perfect timing.

People not doing what they are supposed to be doing causes confusion, frustration and #### happens.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

Why is it so calm in here today and everyone seems to be in a great mood?

Traffic reports wont start for a bit.

[MoneyGuy]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

Why is it so calm in here today and everyone seems to be in a great mood?

Haven’t you been reading the American Politics thread?