March 2009
3 posts
the slip lane: its purpose, how it can lead to...
!!!ATTENTION IDIOT SANDGROPERS WHO HAVE DRIVER’S LICENCES!!!
Slip lanes! For the purpose of getting turning cars out of moving traffic, so everyone can continue on without stopping. Little bitumen miracles! Unless they’re not used correctly, and - surprise, surprise - you don’t use them correctly.
Slip lanes are various lengths depending on a few of things: the speed at which...
merging - obviously rocket science
I have to bring up merging today, given the mortifying display I was treated to this morning heading South on the Mitchell Freeway.
There’s absolutely nothing hard to grasp about merging traffic. The rule is that if any part of a vehicle is in front of yours, you have to give way.
Note that I said “give way”. I didn’t say “stop”. These are two very different...
it must be a full moon tonight
because EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON THE ROAD this morning was intent on ruining the day.
first it was the Ocean Reef Road Southbound on-ramp - you people are seriously challenged.
next, the dyslexic bus driver who signalled left to turn right, leaving me stuck behind his giant vehicle while he trundled down Whitfords Avenue at roughly .00000000000000000000007% of the actual speed limit.
oh and then,...
February 2009
4 posts
blink blink blink...
i don’t know about you, but whenever i’m driving behind a car with an exceptionally fast blinking indicator light, i want to open my door, get out of my automobile, casually saunter up to the car in front and slap the driver across the back of the head.
arrogant, snooty little lights. slow down. you’re in perth, no-one cares how fast you’re blinking.
roundabouts: part one
right. something needs to be cleared up.
ROUNDABOUTS DO NOT HAVE STOP SIGNS. (unless they do, of course) most have give way signs, or the broken dotted line you may or may not be familiar with. this means, you GIVE WAY.
to break it down for the slow kids:
1. as you approach the roundabout, keep one eye on the car in front of you, and one any cars approaching from the right.
2. as you learnt in...