It’s Driving me Crazy!!!

You almost have to be a stunt man/woman to drive from point A to point B in the Lower Mainland. It’s crazy! I myself am a professional driver by trade… 11 years with no accidents found to be my fault. I’ve been in a few….rear enders and I’ve been T-boned….not fun. Anyways…. I get up at 6am everyday, get into my big 4×4 and head into Burnaby. It’s about a 20 minute commute to work, which includes a bridge and several construction zones. The Patullo Bridge…aka “Death bridge” is about 25 to 30 yards wide and is a four lane bridge. In the past 10 years there have been over 400 accidents and 14 deaths on the bridge. Narrow lanes big trucks and speed all play a roll in making it the most dangerous bridge in Canada. If you travel this bridge… SLOW THE FUCK DOWN!!!! I have a solution….since they wont tear it down and rebuild. Make it a three lane bridge with wider lanes and a counter-flow lane….and for god’s sake…. FINISH PAVING IT!!!

Street racing or Retard racing as I like to call it, has grown to be a major problem here. Although there is a drag race track 40 minutes away… young, usually Asian males with way too much drug money, are driving really fast expensive cars through traffic and family neighbourhoods. Last summer a young child was run down in front of his own home on a quiet Surrey street. Speed and alcohol were factors. No shit! Two weeks ago, on the way home from their child’s wedding rehearsal dinner, an older married couple was killed when some young asswipe decided he didn’t want to let another car pass him. Instead…he provoked a street race…forcing the car the married couple was ridding in, off the road and flipping upside down. If that were my parents….so help me…this fucker would be dead if found. No jail time….no 24 hour suspension….that all goes out the window when it’s family. I feel for the family of the couple….I really do.

At work, I drive a 38 foot Peterbilt Oil Tanker. When full, it can weigh as much as 50 tonnes. You would be surprised how often I get cut off. I’m driving into Vancouver at a speed of about 60 km/p. Mr speedy comes down my right side and cuts in front of me with only a few feet to spare. The light ahead was red and I needed about 150 feet to stop. I only had 100. Thankfully I wasn’t full. If you need to get in front of a large truck, please remember, they need more room to stop. Don’t change lanes right in front of them….give some space.

A friend of mine recently was the victim of extreme road rage. We were both on the same stretch of road heading to the same job, early in the morning. We had just crossed the bridge and I received a call from my friend who was about three car length behind me. He was being cut off repeatedly by the same car. He called to tell me this just as he was trying to pass the irate driver. It was then that rage kicked in. This cock sucker wouldn’t let him pass….he side swipped my friend. I pulled over and they followed. There was over $4000 damage to my friends car and only $900 to dick heads car. ICBC found them both at fault. I say to ICBC…. FUCK YOU! ICBC stands for Idiots Controlling British Columbia.

Speed limit signs are there for you to obey. Don’t be the one doing 30 in a 50 zone or the one doing 100 in a 30 zone. Obey the signs, don’t street race, give big trucks more room, alternate when merging into traffic, watch for motorcycles and don’t drive while intoxicated. Do your part and people live. 

These have been more random thoughts from my head.

Quote of the day: People who live in glass houses should buy stock in Windex.