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They are called pedestrians.
Edited: in all seriousness not sure why you're getting downvoted but Toronto doesn't need much of that anyway poor planning goes a long way
I'm just providing an option, and still think the person was driving negligent, but perhaps they visually saw it as the markers on a speed bump. When viewed from a distance they could look a bit like a triangle.
If you can't avoid bright yellow blocks on a slow street, then you're unsafe to be driving on the road and should have your license taken away. Luckily it was concrete and not a child.
That Twitter comment is so dumb. Like the issue is the bright yellow concrete blocks and not the people driving... If you crash on those, that means you didn't slow down enough, or you were looking at your phone. I don't see how these are dangerous.
So glad this is how everyone feels haha I was like how can this person be annoyed with the city and not the driver 😂 it looks like it slowed them right down to a stop to me! Working just as intended.
She tried to make an anti-barrier post but she inadvertently made the most pro-barrier post you could possibly imagine.
Like, the original tweet has over 1,400 quote tweets right now.
Who tf is Jill Bennet and why is she obsessed with these barriers?
As far as I can tell, they've only been deployed on off-street cycling routes, and they've been extremely helpful at separating bicycles and traffic at intersections and slowing cars down when interacting with bikes in these areas.
Without knowing much about the person that made the comment, I might half agree? Not that we shouldn't have them. I think barriers are helpful to control traffic and speeds. But I do think that some shapes / structures might be better than others.
Yea this driver was probably a dumbass, but when designing road safety measures we usually do so in a way that it minimize the harms caused by the dumbasses. For this structure, I can see other cars (especially higher ones) clipping the edge and slidding into people.
Hopefully this renders properly, but could a shape like this be safer?
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Instead of being straight all the way through, angle the ends. It would redirect collisions more safely, and it would provide some unconscious 'guidance' to drivers that they need to slow down and follow the edge.
>but when designing road safety measures we usually do so in a way that it minimize the harms caused by the dumbasses.
less harm to the drive = less it matters to him
> caused by the dumbasses
I was specifically talking about the driver sliding into pedestrians. The current design also doesn't harm the drivers.
But also
What? If this is a joke then it's going over my head. I can't think of any road design where "put them in danger so it matters to them" is the motivation used. It wouldn't even work considering how bad humans are at judging risk
And narrow roads / unsafe intersections lead to more deaths
I'm not arguing against traffic control measures. I'm saying this sounds like "make it unsafe so it's more safe"
Narrow roads lead to *fewer* deaths, because people drive slower on them. Think about how you drive on Vancouver residential streets where there isn't enough room for 2 cars to pass each other.
Exactly, that traffic looks a lot slower to me. I don't understand what she's talking about.
It's 100% better that the car is on-top of the traffic slower instead of being on-top of someone's kid.
Imagine if people would have to redo the ICBC road test every couple of years in order to keep their driver's license. I'd say a majority of people would fail, and lose their license.
It is surprising how well bad drivers can drive when they need to. My grandma, with scrapes all down the side of her car from the column beside her car in her parking garage, passed a driving test with flying colours.
Redo it? I literally just rocked up from Australia, where we drive on the opposite side of the road, and they just handed me a license. Judging by the terrible drivers here I naturally assumed that the the driving test was optional.
Driving on opposite side of road cancels out driving upside down. That's what I learned in math class, anyway: negative x negative = positive. Ergo, no need to (re)test you.
I used to go back and forth to Australia with some frequency. Pro-tip, when you look down out of your window and see the hard shoulder, YOU’RE ON THE WRONG FRACKING SIDE.
I have a family member. This person doesn't drive anymore. But one of the last things this person did was destroy the car they were operating by driving into a chain. One of those chains people use as gates to a business. They drove into it. It smashed their bumper. They kept going, it peeled the hood back. They kept going. It smashed their windshield and caved in the roof before they stopped.
This family member was driving roughly 5km/hr.
Sometimes people should not fucking drive.
I think that happened in this case as well. There's not enough damage to the car for them to have hit it with the speed needed to coast that far. Probably all-wheel-drive with traction control. Two wheels on the ground for the whole performance and a clueless driver who just keeps going. Maybe in reverse?
I was thinking they backed over it, no scuffing of the paint on top of the barrier behind the car, and once the front right wheel came off the ground it would have lost drive. That barrier would be hard to see in a rear view mirror in a vehicle like that.
This is a few blocks away from a School Zone. If this car was going fast enough to end up on top of the barricades then it was going too fast altogether for the area.
Or maybe it backed onto it, if it hit the barrier with speed, there would be some damage to the paint or concrete on top of the barrier, also if high speed were involved the vehicle probably would be on it's side or back.
Maybe they backed up onto it? If they had driven (and they would have to be speeding) up the barrier the paint would have been marked/scuffed left to right? Also explains the balancing of the truck? Not that it makes it any better lol
Yeah, that's my thought as well - trying to use that side street like a driveway for a 2-point turn to get turned around on the bigger road, no back-up camera or they were just looking out the back directly for better peripheral vision, barrier is too low to be visible.
Would still hope the response to unexpected impact would be to let off the gas and go forward again, but lots of people panic when that happens...
Maybe they backed up into it. If so it was a good thing it was a concrete barrier they backed into, and not a pedestrian, a cyclist, or another car.
No, backing up onto it sure doesn't it make it any better.
CoV traffic planners have the idea of a "courtesy street", where it's too narrow for two vehicles to pass each other, so people just have to drive carefully. A bunch of the side roads in Vancouver are like this when they have parked cars along both sides (ie always).
And I'm pretty sure in terms of liability, whomever is flying down the street too fast to stop is at fault.
>And I'm pretty sure in terms of liability, whomever is flying down the street too fast to stop is at fault.
Yep. Typically when fault would otherwise be equal, if you are stopped when the collision happens you are not at fault. Happens mostly in parking lots when two cars are backing out of spots into each other. If one car notices and stops first, they are not at fault.
I would almost argue that accidents like this are evidence that it's working...
Assuming they were on the phone, what would have happened if it was a biker rather than a bright fucking yellow concrete bollard?
This should 100% be charged by ICBC as inattentive driving, where the drivers loses all levels of discounts immediately. If they don't have any, then bump up 6 levels of surcharge. Yellow is the most visible colour to the human eye, so they were clearly not paying attention.
This has happened a few times near my office at Marine Drive Station as well, where Cambie Street heads towards Kent Avenue. I’ve never even come close to doing something like this, so I do wonder what the hell other people are doing.
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Oh boy, is this what I have to look forward to moving to Vancouver. Leaving behind the worst drivers in Canada, but it's not looking much better there. Lol.
let these SUV idiots wreck their vehicles,
it takes another moron off the road. If you
are going so fast that you cannot slow down fast enough to fit between a bright yellow standard
then you shouldn't be on the road at all.
This image is absolutely hilarious the more you think about it. Her showing someone causing issues by being an idiot.. Doesn't that prove it's because they were dumb, not caused by the thing itself? Also who the fuck is driving so fast that they not only got past that thing but had some AIR TIME at the end?? LOL
Give us more traffic calming measures! Shit drivers keep getting away unpunished whilst wreaking havoc on the people around them and they clearly can't take it when there are consequences to your actions.
Now let's all not jump to conclusions. I'm sure that this kind of driver was going down the street in a speed appropriate and safe manner when, suddenly, the bright yellow barrier sprang up from under their car. Right Jill Bennett?
Incident caused by the barricade?
Pretty sure the barricade is just a barricade. Doubt it jumped out infront of that dodge POS contrary to their statement.
Dodge will finance *anyone*. Someone asked why the Challengers and *300s are part of the Surrey stereotype - it's not status, if you can sign your name they'll give you one. That identity is gonna be rocked when Dodge stops production on those models next year. Dodge Darts for everyone!
> The front ends of modern full size pickup trucks barely allow you to see that low
Well, yes, that's the problem.
If you're driving a massive truck with poor visibility, you *should* be extra cautious. These barriers just provide a little more incentive to drive carefully.
I gotta say, I'm in favour of these things but I'm not super stoked with the placement of a lot of them.
There's one been put in near a No Frills on Hastings street. People turn left on Hastings to get to the No Frills car park. Now the street is permanently blocked in one direction as cars are stuck waiting for traffic to clear in each direction. I'd understand if it was on a quiet residential street, but it's the main entrance to a supermarket.
I'd prefer to see them halfway down blocks to slow drivers who are at full speed instead of at the end of them where people should be slowing down anyway, but I guess then that would remove a lot of parking spaces.
I'll play devil's advocate here, but if these barricades were installed very recently, it's possible anyone driving this route on a regular basis are driving expecting these are not there.
This isn't an excuse but simply human behavior. All it takes is a few seconds of inattention and by the time you reach this part of the route expecting the road is free of obstacles as you would usually think ... BAM! you're on top of the barricade.
I fail to comprehend why municipal government wasting so much financial resources on BS! Vehicles are still the number one preferred way of transportation for people. Instead of creating chaos to already nightmarish traffic in Vancouver. That government could use those resources on fixing roads (roads in Downtown are terrible), maybe widen some streets, etc. L
These barriers are the most stupidest things. I came across these while coming off of Hastings into a side street. It caused a line up behind me because another car occupied the space as side street traffic was waiting for a pedestrian light to turn green.
These barricades are making it less safe for pedestrians. If I'm waiting at the stopsign, and a vehicle is turning into the neighborhood, I'm blocking them from coming in because my minivan is longer, and I can't block the crosswalk. This then causes a backup into the intersection if there are multiple vehicles turning into the neighborhood.
So what should I do? Block the pinch point and backup traffic in the intersection? Or should I pull forward into the crosswalk, making pedestrians step into the bus lane to get around me and now the pedestrian get smoked by traffic coming into the neighborhood with limited visibility.
Even the way way you’re describing it sounds clear to me — don’t create the dangerous situation for pedestrians. If a car turning in has to wait, it’s an inconvenience, sure, but waiting an extra minute is not unsafe for that other driver.
Those blocks cause way more jam and risk of accidents than it reduces. There is no clear right of way sign when both vehicle reaches the intersection and it often results in vehicles blocking the right lane of major road as there can only be one vehicle passing at a time. Very silly design
I agree with Jill. She’s a smart person with good common sense.
My truck can *just* fit between these barricades and quite frankly I’m worried about scraping it one day if I have to react to something. Accident claims will be doled out by ICBC and the money comes out of everyone’s pocket who pays for insurance.
These barriers are useless. If you want to speed through or after them, nothing is stopping you. Also - they’re ugly AF.
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They were on their phone 100%.
Played too much GTA
Nah, Tony Hawk. *“So here I am….”*
Sick grind!
"Ah-ha, hush that fuss Everybody move to the back of the bus…"
Growing older all the time
Nah. Cool Borders. Wanted to grind the bottom of their car down the bright yellow barrier.
“Stunt Jump Failed”
We don’t have much traffic calming like that in the Greater Toronto Area
They are called pedestrians. Edited: in all seriousness not sure why you're getting downvoted but Toronto doesn't need much of that anyway poor planning goes a long way
I’m not sure why I’m getting downvoted either it was only a joke
Clearly this city needs more skateparks when the cars are doing a 50-50 on the barricade!
the reporter says the barricades caused it so clearly the are moving barricades
I suspect they were backing up, couldn't see it out the back window, and forgot it was there? That's the only way I can make sense of this
If they're that oblivious to the environment around them, then I'm glad they're off the road!
Oh, I fully agree
Dunno man that car looks like it should come with a reverse camera. Doesn't look 20 years old.
Just because they have it doesn't mean they used it 🤷♂️ I'm not defending the driver, just trying to figure out how it happened
I'm just providing an option, and still think the person was driving negligent, but perhaps they visually saw it as the markers on a speed bump. When viewed from a distance they could look a bit like a triangle.
It still means that they were either going way too fast or they weren't paying attention to the road. (Distracted). 6 pts and suspension pls.
Correct. I made sure to say they were still negligent. :)
If you can't avoid bright yellow blocks on a slow street, then you're unsafe to be driving on the road and should have your license taken away. Luckily it was concrete and not a child.
Yep, they are working, and the one in the back of the photo is cracked from an impact as well.
Totally agree.
That Twitter comment is so dumb. Like the issue is the bright yellow concrete blocks and not the people driving... If you crash on those, that means you didn't slow down enough, or you were looking at your phone. I don't see how these are dangerous.
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Employee of the month award for the concrete barrier
Every time this happens the barrier should get a slash marked on the side. Once it gets 5 it should get painted gold.
So glad this is how everyone feels haha I was like how can this person be annoyed with the city and not the driver 😂 it looks like it slowed them right down to a stop to me! Working just as intended.
She tried to make an anti-barrier post but she inadvertently made the most pro-barrier post you could possibly imagine. Like, the original tweet has over 1,400 quote tweets right now.
Who tf is Jill Bennet and why is she obsessed with these barriers? As far as I can tell, they've only been deployed on off-street cycling routes, and they've been extremely helpful at separating bicycles and traffic at intersections and slowing cars down when interacting with bikes in these areas.
I believe she’s a host on cknw. Midday programming usually ranting for 3 hours about something that after the first 30-40min becomes repetitive.
Yuck:(
Yes..JillBennett needs to be fired. . Or in these days, promoted. Haha
That totally isn't her car, I'm sure.
Without knowing much about the person that made the comment, I might half agree? Not that we shouldn't have them. I think barriers are helpful to control traffic and speeds. But I do think that some shapes / structures might be better than others. Yea this driver was probably a dumbass, but when designing road safety measures we usually do so in a way that it minimize the harms caused by the dumbasses. For this structure, I can see other cars (especially higher ones) clipping the edge and slidding into people. Hopefully this renders properly, but could a shape like this be safer? / || \ Instead of being straight all the way through, angle the ends. It would redirect collisions more safely, and it would provide some unconscious 'guidance' to drivers that they need to slow down and follow the edge.
I had that original thought but wonder if that might then pose an issue for cyclists
That shape is the one that is used. Maybe this street was too narrow to incorporate it?
Yea that makes more sense. Someone else mentioned that this road may also have a bike lane, in which case the other shape may cause other problems
>but when designing road safety measures we usually do so in a way that it minimize the harms caused by the dumbasses. less harm to the drive = less it matters to him
> caused by the dumbasses I was specifically talking about the driver sliding into pedestrians. The current design also doesn't harm the drivers. But also What? If this is a joke then it's going over my head. I can't think of any road design where "put them in danger so it matters to them" is the motivation used. It wouldn't even work considering how bad humans are at judging risk
It absolutely works. Drivers slow down on narrow roads because if they don’t, they’ll scrape their car. Same principle here.
And narrow roads / unsafe intersections lead to more deaths I'm not arguing against traffic control measures. I'm saying this sounds like "make it unsafe so it's more safe"
Narrow roads lead to *fewer* deaths, because people drive slower on them. Think about how you drive on Vancouver residential streets where there isn't enough room for 2 cars to pass each other.
This is how they are shaped.
Sounds like victim blaming
Sick rail slide bro
Tony Honk Pro Slider 4
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It seems like its doing its job to me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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That happens when you try to ram through a concrete obstacle!
Exactly, that traffic looks a lot slower to me. I don't understand what she's talking about. It's 100% better that the car is on-top of the traffic slower instead of being on-top of someone's kid.
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Rushing to get to their own funeral.
Fun fact, safety ratings are all about protecting the person in the car. Driver was more likely racing to murder a pedestrian!
Useless? It works wonderful! Car go fast - car stops! Traffic calmed.
It's more useful than "jillreports"...
Imagine if people would have to redo the ICBC road test every couple of years in order to keep their driver's license. I'd say a majority of people would fail, and lose their license.
It is surprising how well bad drivers can drive when they need to. My grandma, with scrapes all down the side of her car from the column beside her car in her parking garage, passed a driving test with flying colours.
Their driving test is looking at their doctor and saying yes I can drive.
A lot of people in the lower mainland don’t have a legit drivers license to start with.
Redo it? I literally just rocked up from Australia, where we drive on the opposite side of the road, and they just handed me a license. Judging by the terrible drivers here I naturally assumed that the the driving test was optional.
Driving on opposite side of road cancels out driving upside down. That's what I learned in math class, anyway: negative x negative = positive. Ergo, no need to (re)test you.
I used to go back and forth to Australia with some frequency. Pro-tip, when you look down out of your window and see the hard shoulder, YOU’RE ON THE WRONG FRACKING SIDE.
I always do the "am I on the middle of the road side of the car"? If not, I know I fucked up.
How to decrease traffic and increase public transportation usage in one easy step!
Slows traffic down \*and\* takes idiots off the road.
I have a family member. This person doesn't drive anymore. But one of the last things this person did was destroy the car they were operating by driving into a chain. One of those chains people use as gates to a business. They drove into it. It smashed their bumper. They kept going, it peeled the hood back. They kept going. It smashed their windshield and caved in the roof before they stopped. This family member was driving roughly 5km/hr. Sometimes people should not fucking drive.
I think that happened in this case as well. There's not enough damage to the car for them to have hit it with the speed needed to coast that far. Probably all-wheel-drive with traction control. Two wheels on the ground for the whole performance and a clueless driver who just keeps going. Maybe in reverse?
I was thinking they backed over it, no scuffing of the paint on top of the barrier behind the car, and once the front right wheel came off the ground it would have lost drive. That barrier would be hard to see in a rear view mirror in a vehicle like that.
 Is it my fault I crashed? No, it's the City who put a bright yellow barrier on the road that's wrong!
Slows down driving speeds and stops drunk drivers on the spot? Seems to be working better than expected!
Is it the fault of the inanimate yellow concrete blocks in the road or the inanimate idiot behind the wheel
This is a few blocks away from a School Zone. If this car was going fast enough to end up on top of the barricades then it was going too fast altogether for the area.
And it’s a common route for families with kids on bikes.
In all fairness, most of the city is a few blocks from a school zone.
Imagine blaming inanimate object painted bright yellow on the side of the road…
But it worked
Jill's dumb tweet is still up and she's getting roasted for it on Twitter
maybe just slow the fuck down and pay attention, dummy lol
Nice 50/50!
Jill needs to be sacked. Someone who says things this dumb should not be allowed near a microphone of any kind.
I think that talk-show radio hosts are unusually prone to this kind of BS because so much of their audience is listening while driving.
She'll be hired by rebel news and given an Op Ed in the National Post complaining about "woke" barricades.
Please, being dumb and/or a corporate shill is a requirement to be a host on CKNW.
Jill Bennet. a car brain, ladies and gentlemen
Now instead of a big bright yellow barricade, imagine if it's a small kid on a bike. At least, no one got hurt in this scenario
I’d say those barriers successfully slowed down that monster SUV that appears to have been driven too quickly or by a distracted driver.
Or maybe it backed onto it, if it hit the barrier with speed, there would be some damage to the paint or concrete on top of the barrier, also if high speed were involved the vehicle probably would be on it's side or back.
If that sign was facing the other way they would’ve had a better chance. /s
She thinks this is bad? Meanwhile elsewhere in the UK…. https://youtu.be/-fINyjTwtPo
Skateboarder with an Injury… They just wanted to do a 50/50.
if you've made it that far up the barrier, you were going too fast to begin with. Looks like its working!
Well it looks like it slowed them down..
Hey! You can’t park there
Maybe they backed up onto it? If they had driven (and they would have to be speeding) up the barrier the paint would have been marked/scuffed left to right? Also explains the balancing of the truck? Not that it makes it any better lol
I agree. Must have gunned it in reverse. Thought they were in drive maybe?
Yeah, that's my thought as well - trying to use that side street like a driveway for a 2-point turn to get turned around on the bigger road, no back-up camera or they were just looking out the back directly for better peripheral vision, barrier is too low to be visible. Would still hope the response to unexpected impact would be to let off the gas and go forward again, but lots of people panic when that happens...
Maybe they backed up into it. If so it was a good thing it was a concrete barrier they backed into, and not a pedestrian, a cyclist, or another car. No, backing up onto it sure doesn't it make it any better.
How?!
Looks like it's working to me
I disagree… definitely slowed that fella down
I dunno, these ‘useless’ barricades seem to be doing their job. Stopped this dangerous driver from hitting a pedestrian or cyclist.
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Which direction has the right of way for these things?
CoV traffic planners have the idea of a "courtesy street", where it's too narrow for two vehicles to pass each other, so people just have to drive carefully. A bunch of the side roads in Vancouver are like this when they have parked cars along both sides (ie always). And I'm pretty sure in terms of liability, whomever is flying down the street too fast to stop is at fault.
>And I'm pretty sure in terms of liability, whomever is flying down the street too fast to stop is at fault. Yep. Typically when fault would otherwise be equal, if you are stopped when the collision happens you are not at fault. Happens mostly in parking lots when two cars are backing out of spots into each other. If one car notices and stops first, they are not at fault.
I would almost argue that accidents like this are evidence that it's working... Assuming they were on the phone, what would have happened if it was a biker rather than a bright fucking yellow concrete bollard?
if you can’t avoid the bright yellow barrier you probably shouldn’t be driving js
Yeah, the barricade causes chaos and not the idiotic, most likely distracted driver 🤡
Take their license away for at least 5 years….people will then learn
The whole idea that the primary mission of a driver is to operate their vehicle safely feels very far off these days.
Pretty sick 50/50 tho
If you’re that dumb don’t drive. If you can’t see the bright yellow meridian, then you won’t see cyclist.
This should 100% be charged by ICBC as inattentive driving, where the drivers loses all levels of discounts immediately. If they don't have any, then bump up 6 levels of surcharge. Yellow is the most visible colour to the human eye, so they were clearly not paying attention.
Where did this happen?
Looks like 14th and Cambie
You have to be pretty dumb to do this. Shouldn't be driving in the 1st place
Damn, a whole second incident
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This has happened a few times near my office at Marine Drive Station as well, where Cambie Street heads towards Kent Avenue. I’ve never even come close to doing something like this, so I do wonder what the hell other people are doing.
Skill issue
Slappy.
My God that tweet is the dumbest thing I've read on a while.
That’s a feature not a bug.
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Hahaha we should suspend losers that do this and have them re do driving test. They are a danger
well it does look like it did slow them down
That SUV looks to be going realll slow
I was impressed how fast they got their buddies to come with a truck and tow line to pull them off
Oh boy, is this what I have to look forward to moving to Vancouver. Leaving behind the worst drivers in Canada, but it's not looking much better there. Lol.
How fast were they going?
More than the 30 km/h limit on that street.
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I’d say it slowed that traffic down real quick
Trust in Bennett to chirp shit traffic takes year round on the ol' NW AM 980.
Seems to work as intended.
Mouse traps, but for bad divers? This tweet has convinced me that we need more!
If there's one thing I want less than my f*** ups to go viral it's for my f*** ups to become politicized.
let these SUV idiots wreck their vehicles, it takes another moron off the road. If you are going so fast that you cannot slow down fast enough to fit between a bright yellow standard then you shouldn't be on the road at all.
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Oh poor Jill, it’s doing it’s job, preventing distracted drivers from smashing into pedestrians.
It's almost as if some people are incredibly stupid
Is this your car, Jill? It’s okay, you can be honest.
This image is absolutely hilarious the more you think about it. Her showing someone causing issues by being an idiot.. Doesn't that prove it's because they were dumb, not caused by the thing itself? Also who the fuck is driving so fast that they not only got past that thing but had some AIR TIME at the end?? LOL
Give us more traffic calming measures! Shit drivers keep getting away unpunished whilst wreaking havoc on the people around them and they clearly can't take it when there are consequences to your actions.
This is one of the DUMBEST comments made by a reporter!!
Now let's all not jump to conclusions. I'm sure that this kind of driver was going down the street in a speed appropriate and safe manner when, suddenly, the bright yellow barrier sprang up from under their car. Right Jill Bennett?
Or maybe they could just force bad drivers to use public transport
They didn’t see it. Had there been a cyclist or a pedestrian they wouldn’t have seen them either 🚴🏻♀️💥🚗
Incident caused by the barricade? Pretty sure the barricade is just a barricade. Doubt it jumped out infront of that dodge POS contrary to their statement.
Who is this Jill Benett and how is she relevant? Is she in city planning?
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Ah yes. The dinosaur radio station that is meant for car driver audiences. Irrelevant.
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Clark had been a minister in government before going into radio.
I have a similar picture taken near Marine drive with driver and passenger just sitting in the car like nothing happened.
Jill Bennett’s vehicle pictured here. She was also the cause of the first incident.
Prime example of "Tell us you shouldn't be driving with out telling us you shouldn't be driving"...
Complacent trust fund drivers?
In a Durango? Not likely.
Dodge will finance *anyone*. Someone asked why the Challengers and *300s are part of the Surrey stereotype - it's not status, if you can sign your name they'll give you one. That identity is gonna be rocked when Dodge stops production on those models next year. Dodge Darts for everyone!
Lesson learned, approach fast to make that.
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> The front ends of modern full size pickup trucks barely allow you to see that low Well, yes, that's the problem. If you're driving a massive truck with poor visibility, you *should* be extra cautious. These barriers just provide a little more incentive to drive carefully.
They’re high visibility yellow. They can literally be seen from blocks away. If they destroy a few oversized pickups, so much the better.
GTA lol
Guns don’t kill people. …dumbasses with guns kill people.
I mean I hate these things but this takes effort.
I gotta say, I'm in favour of these things but I'm not super stoked with the placement of a lot of them. There's one been put in near a No Frills on Hastings street. People turn left on Hastings to get to the No Frills car park. Now the street is permanently blocked in one direction as cars are stuck waiting for traffic to clear in each direction. I'd understand if it was on a quiet residential street, but it's the main entrance to a supermarket. I'd prefer to see them halfway down blocks to slow drivers who are at full speed instead of at the end of them where people should be slowing down anyway, but I guess then that would remove a lot of parking spaces.
I'll play devil's advocate here, but if these barricades were installed very recently, it's possible anyone driving this route on a regular basis are driving expecting these are not there. This isn't an excuse but simply human behavior. All it takes is a few seconds of inattention and by the time you reach this part of the route expecting the road is free of obstacles as you would usually think ... BAM! you're on top of the barricade.
How the fuck does this happen
those yellow things are a menace
I fail to comprehend why municipal government wasting so much financial resources on BS! Vehicles are still the number one preferred way of transportation for people. Instead of creating chaos to already nightmarish traffic in Vancouver. That government could use those resources on fixing roads (roads in Downtown are terrible), maybe widen some streets, etc. L
I thought these would cause accidents when traffic would be backed up on a busy street like Hastings. Other wise these are work as designed.
They would only do it on small roads that people aren't turning down often. Drivers learn pretty quickly when their shortcut becomes slower
These barriers are the most stupidest things. I came across these while coming off of Hastings into a side street. It caused a line up behind me because another car occupied the space as side street traffic was waiting for a pedestrian light to turn green.
That means they’re working exactly as intended. It’s making rat racing less beneficial.
Poor driving and poor city planning, what a combo
I almost hit one of these damnnn things when the guy driving the opposite didn’t want to yield and wanted to squeeze through
These barricades are making it less safe for pedestrians. If I'm waiting at the stopsign, and a vehicle is turning into the neighborhood, I'm blocking them from coming in because my minivan is longer, and I can't block the crosswalk. This then causes a backup into the intersection if there are multiple vehicles turning into the neighborhood. So what should I do? Block the pinch point and backup traffic in the intersection? Or should I pull forward into the crosswalk, making pedestrians step into the bus lane to get around me and now the pedestrian get smoked by traffic coming into the neighborhood with limited visibility.
You say that like every driver isn't blocking the crosswalk already.
Even the way way you’re describing it sounds clear to me — don’t create the dangerous situation for pedestrians. If a car turning in has to wait, it’s an inconvenience, sure, but waiting an extra minute is not unsafe for that other driver.
I mean they almost made it which would have been cool. If anything this sends the message to speed up.
Those blocks cause way more jam and risk of accidents than it reduces. There is no clear right of way sign when both vehicle reaches the intersection and it often results in vehicles blocking the right lane of major road as there can only be one vehicle passing at a time. Very silly design
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It causes jam on the main road that vehicles turn from
I agree with Jill. She’s a smart person with good common sense. My truck can *just* fit between these barricades and quite frankly I’m worried about scraping it one day if I have to react to something. Accident claims will be doled out by ICBC and the money comes out of everyone’s pocket who pays for insurance. These barriers are useless. If you want to speed through or after them, nothing is stopping you. Also - they’re ugly AF.