I don't know if you drive much along Hammond Bay Rd, but it can be pretty frustrating on garbage day, or even morning commute on school days, with buses stopping very 100 - 200 yds.
I dread the new "automatic" garbage trucks which I think will take far longer to pick up cans and put them down using hydraulics, rather than arm power.
I have a tenant that is elderly and her vehicle is parked on the street and uninsured.
The mechanical soundness of the vehicle is seriously questionable. The vehicle owner said that the brakes are not working and she had to use the emergency brake to stop the vehicle in the past.
There have been times that she was so heavily medicated, people were surprised to see her get in her vehicle and drive away.
Hi, I am a concerned citizen and home owner that lives on Blind Bay Road in the South Shuswap.
I was stopped when riding across Georgia Street on my bike, heading north on Nicola Street in Vancouver by a traffic cop who said that cyclists had to wait for the pedestrian walk signal. Can you cross the traffic-light controlled street by obeying the stop signs (and of course when safe to do so), or do you have to wait for the pedestrian white-man-walking sign?
About 1.5 million people die in collisions around the world each year and millions more are injured. Save LIVES: A Road Safety Technical Package identifies measures that have been implemented in countries like Canada and are proven to have saved lives.
My spouse and I recently moved back to BC. He had a pending Driving Prohibition that had not been acknowledged since 2013. He was an N driver and was prohibited due to unsastisfactory driving record.
At the end of July he went into ICBC after finding out while trying to switch his license over and acknowledged the suspension.
Yes, it's time to consider going back to school again this year. Will it be safe for our children to go to and from school each day?
Somewhere in British Columbia an unsafe situation will be identified and someone will try to do something about it. Understanding what traffic engineers will consider may significantly increase the chances of successfully implementing a change.
Problems with vehicles can range from overdue maintenance to modifications that may be described as fashion over function. Responsibility for their correction rests principally with the owner and driver. When that fails, it now falls to the police and designated inspection facilities to either nudge or force correction. Depending on the severity of the defects, remedies can range from a simple reminder to a tow truck and seizure of the vehicle license and number plates.
I have a real issue with the trend of pick up trucks being modified.
More and more often when I drive on a busy highway I'm finding much of the traffic jammed into the left lane, each driver trying unsuccessfully to get ahead of the others. One would think that this situation would be akin to being the proverbial kid in the candy store for anyone in traffic law enforcement, violations everywhere! Slower traffic failing to keep right, following too closely, unsafe lane change, cross single solid line, failing to signal lane change and, depending on your point of view, the root cause of much of this: attempting to exceed the speed limit.