It’s been a long time since I’ve had to deal with rush-hour, weekday Toronto traffic, so when I faced that grim spectre yesterday I wasn’t really prepared for it. Of course, it was a particularly bad day, with several accidents on the 401, and an accident in the TTC shutting down the subway. Plus the nice spring weather meant construction popped up everywhere.<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, I was really amazed at some of the crazy driving I saw. In particular, on Sheppard right at Doris a car was abandoned in the left lane (westbound), and that caused a major blockage all the way back to Bayview. Who just abandons a car like that, especially right at an intersection. It couldn’t have at least been pushed onto the less busy side street?<\/p>\n
Then, a bit further on, there was a police car trying to make it through an intersection behind me. It took him about 10 seconds to clear the intersection because people just weren’t stopping or pulling over. I pulled over as soon as I saw the lights in my rear-view mirror (just over a block from the intersection — a few seconds of driving if he finally got a chance to get up to speed) and 3 cars passed me for it (this was on a single-lane, too)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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