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Post by Morgana Le Fay on Jun 2, 2006 7:57:13 GMT -5
Heh, you should come down here and experience the trauma of back roads - especially when you're learning how to drive. Unpaved or very badly paved, U turns, S turns together with side streets and driveways popping out of nowhere and all on steep hills. And of course, everyone drives up/down them at at least 65 MPH when the limit is 30.... Quite fun. Defensive driving is a must.
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Post by Dûncariel is Dead. on Jun 2, 2006 11:01:10 GMT -5
Nope. It wouldn't make it.... gots a friend with a Vespa... great around town, bad, bad on highways or anything that goes up. *nods*
Whoo!! Sounds like most of Montana. The Bitterroot, anyway. Which is why the rest of Montana lives in fear of the 13 liscense plate... *cackles* Little two-lane dirt roads with no shoulder, and a ditch the size of the Grand Canyon, highways that aren't much better... (some idiot actually passed us on the left side of the road on a four-lane the other day... with traffic coming.. whoo.) We have a grand old time.
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Post by Trinity on Jun 2, 2006 14:22:50 GMT -5
Our freeways down here can be scary, but traffic always turns them into parking lots around 5:00 or so... we have BAd traffic and a lot of people! We were driving home from Glamis om the freeway once, and the traffic was really bad because everyone ELSE was also driving home from Glamis and this one dude in a truck passed us on the dirt shoulder, going about 45. Then he jerked back into the lane and it was almost a disaster... People down here are crazy too...
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Post by Jandalf on Toast on Jun 2, 2006 22:30:24 GMT -5
Yup, I think every area has its claim for bad drivers...here it's no different. People from the major city centres have commented on how bad driving is around here. Not to mention the road conditions...our province is so very underfunded when it comes to transportation. Highway 75 is one big pothole because of the trucks always coming up from the States and the annual flooding, and one of the roads in town here was pointed out by a citizen to be an ideal money-making opportunity, seeing as its dynamic bumps and heaves were similar to that of a rollercoaster. Of course, that's some mild hyperbole...but still... Just like Winnipeg, we have only the two seasons of winter and construction.
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Post by SilverSergyon13 on Jun 4, 2006 9:48:43 GMT -5
I was coming home from work on Friday and some weirdo was driving on the opposite side of the road. I almost go right into him and he just stops, so I think he's letting me pass. I start trying to go around him and then he turns his wheels and blocks the whole road, then proceeds to do some weird manuever. Finally he got to the side and I passed...very quickly.
I live in the country. We have some pretty bad roads, with really fast speed limits. The road I drive to work on is definitely one of the worst. So many blind spots...
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Post by Jandalf on Toast on Jun 4, 2006 18:38:39 GMT -5
Some of the incidences out there make me occasionally wish that it was mandatory to retake a driving course every five or ten years...
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Post by Dûncariel is Dead. on Jun 4, 2006 20:13:21 GMT -5
Hee hee... oh, the Bitterrooter stories I could tell. The major issue with our roads is wildlife... deer everywhere. And turkeys. We hit a turkey one day. And magpies, and ducks, and cows.... yep.
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Post by Jandalf on Toast on Jun 4, 2006 22:24:49 GMT -5
Oooh. Have you ever seen badger roadkill? I have. It's the first and only badger I've ever seen, too...that's also how I saw my first porcupine.
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Post by Dûncariel is Dead. on Jun 5, 2006 12:19:25 GMT -5
Yup! Marmots, too. Yesterday, there was this marmot on the side of the road, and I could have sworn it was a wombat. That was the weirdest thing in the world. Saw a dead refrigerator on the side of the road, once...
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Post by Tiana, eh? on Jun 5, 2006 22:36:15 GMT -5
We seen someone hit a moose. It flew up into the air, cartweeled, and crashed into the ditch. The car got all bashed.
I'm still scarred.
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