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in reply to @kda's post:

three levels of routing

  • "Only official roads and sidewalks please!"
  • "I'm willing to cut through a building if it gets me there faster"
  • "Trespassing laws are a suggestion"

maps going "nononononononono" as I amble across a major road to cross to my destination on the other side, rather than follow its thirty minutes of round-about directions to a designated crossing point way over yonder

True that! Tho I don't tend to do it so much now, because I've gotten too slow and decrepit, and since the pandemic started drivers seem to have gottten much wilder

... at some point, I might draw up that thing I half-doodled when 'thumbs made the joke about 2021 being the year of people drawing their sonas getting hit by a car.

Oh, yeah, shit, extremely valid?

I haven't noticed drivers getting much worse here (yet), but I also do operate on "if they can kill me without it being blatant murder, they probably will" rules, ahahaha.

I will put myself in their line of sight. And I will make eye contact with them.

Soon as the traffic cleared for the initial lockdown in early 2020, there was about ... I'm gonna say three days before the remaining folks realised the roads were empty and they just went hog wild.

And even though we're BASICALLY back to pre-pandemic levels of traffic, people are still blowing red lights at speed like there's no-one else on the roads.

I don't know if it's that people's brains got turned to mush by covid, or having to consider the existence of other people just made 'em snap, but it's fucken... something else to see 'em blow through a junction a good 30 to 40 seconds after their light went red, and traffic from the side-street has started moving.

Thirty to forty seconds!?!? Fucking Christ, I'm still surprised by three here.

Granted, in a city as busy and dense as Vancouver, there's just way less room for error and a way stronger deterrent in the form of "sufficiently severe red light running will, with a probability of 1, lead to a chain of events that ruins your life", as well asโ€ฆ โ€ฆI think the average incompetence and airheadedness of drivers here somehow deters recklessness?

But fuck. That's horrific.

That junction has always been a hotspot for red light running. It's b a d.

My boss has on multiple occasions, gone to take a wrecker out to a job, only to find the junction blocked by at least two cars now strewn all over the road.