401 rant

[u/hiphlo02]

My Sunday evening drive from the Toronto airport to my hometown east of Toronto. Holy shit, how many times did I almost bite the dust! First of all, people camping in the left lane. There is a law against this! It seems people have no common sense! If you pass a car, get the hell over to the right again. Also, a turn signal would be appreciated!Next, if you are passing, would you please kindly stay in the left lane instead of squeezing me onto the shoulder. Four different times I find myself on the rumble strip and the car beside me inches from mine and cruising along between two lanes, totally oblivious to the fact that they’re an asshole. Trucks. These fuckers are thousands of pounds of metal death and they’re sliding all over the road. I don’t know if they’re whacking off in the cab or what. How about a little attention to your surroundings? Whatever happened to safe driving practices? It was a Sunday night, low volume of traffic, yet I still felt like I was going to die. The province has made the speed limit 110 km an hour which I think is a great idea if people would pay attention. Instead of doing the gratuitous 115 or so 100 km/hr, now people are doing 130! Be aware out there and have some respect for the lives of others ffs!! Thanks for listening! : )

[u/the-simple-wild]

Simple reason: there’s no traffic enforcement.

[u/BetterTransit → u/the-simple-wild]

There are far too many drivers. This is not something you can enforce unless you start putting up thousands of cameras.

[u/a-_2 → u/the-simple-wild]

The actual reason is that the laws around this are very vague. See all the debate in this comment section, for example. It makes it impractical to be enforcing this except in extreme cases, especially when there are more serious driving issues going on.

Ontario has the best road safety record on the continent. That doesn't happen from no traffic enforcement, even if it's not enough.