I heard that yesterday. How stupid. It's as if someone at the UCP, said "how can we make ourselves look more maga?""Strong and free" is replacing "Wild rose country"
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Roads, Highways & Infrastructure
- Thread starter Oddball
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Not mandatory, but if a plate gets lost or destroyed, would the owner have to take one of these new plates?
trtcttc
Senior Member
Eventually yes, because they'll only make the new plates. Unless they screw it up like Ontario did with a plate that doesn't work at night and had to essentially scrap it and revert to the old plates.
Putting aside the motto, the plate just looks bad. The Slogan is in an Arial font, literally the most boring and default font. And why can't we have picture plates with red letters? Especially when some of the backgrounds are BLUE! And so it doesn't look like BC or Ontario. And the picture... it's like they went on Google images and took the first one they saw. Something with an illustration or a bit more creativity would've been much better.
El Dorado
New Member
Looks like all the paving is pretty much done for the 4th lane N/S on Deerfoot but they still have a big section blocked off. Anyone know when they plan to open it up?
Golfing guy
Active Member
I would think the new left lane will open once all the work on the right side of the project is completed.
trtcttc
Senior Member
After the three incidents within 24 hours last week, another life-altering injury on Calgary roads.
"Investigators believe the pedestrian had a walk signal at the time of the collision." There is a light at this intersection. So in other words, the driver ran a red light and almost killed someone in broad daylight. Absolutely ridiculous.
calgary.citynews.ca
"Investigators believe the pedestrian had a walk signal at the time of the collision." There is a light at this intersection. So in other words, the driver ran a red light and almost killed someone in broad daylight. Absolutely ridiculous.
Life-altering injuries for pedestrian hit in NW Calgary
A woman in her 60s has life-altering injuries after being hit by a vehicle in northwest Calgary Sunday afternoon.
calgary.citynews.ca
zagox
Active Member
After the three incidents within 24 hours last week, another life-altering injury on Calgary roads.
"Investigators believe the pedestrian had a walk signal at the time of the collision." There is a light at this intersection. So in other words, the driver ran a red light and almost killed someone in broad daylight. Absolutely ridiculous.
Life-altering injuries for pedestrian hit in NW Calgary
A woman in her 60s has life-altering injuries after being hit by a vehicle in northwest Calgary Sunday afternoon.
Despite a "Stop line" sign at this intersection, because there is no painted stop line and the eastbound traffic lights are temporary, drivers usually get so close to the crosswalk that they can't see the traffic signal up above them. And then they just guess when the light has changed, sometimes running the red light. I see it every single day crossing Memorial here.
darwink
Senior Member
if this process was anything like the last one, the plates/reflective film are from 3M or some other similar company, the company provides free design services when you sign a big deal with them. These were very likely every proposal from the manufacturer, and to attempt to dampen controversy, the province has the vote.
Pretty lame IMO.
zagox
Active Member
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trtcttc
Senior Member
It’s not perfect for sure, but that doesn’t excuse the fact she hit someone in the crosswalk! Light be damned, there’s a person in front of you. It was a senior so I doubt she ran into the intersection.
It’s highly unlikely she stopped and proceeded because she can’t see the light, because she’d at least see the human being. Likely she drove up, with full visibility of the red light but was distracted and hit a person crossing right in front of her.
I can see the pro and con of photo radar, but there’s no reason we shouldn’t have as many red light camera as possible. There’s never a justification for running a light.
Roaring Flames
Senior Member
It wouldn't surprise me if a number of drivers don't even know what the stop line is. Lots of ignorant drivers on the roads these days.
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
Driving is a privilege, not a right. It needs to be treated that way.
trtcttc
Senior Member
I get it for some rural places you really do need to drive, but laws in major urban centre should be different such that you could actually lose your license to drive.