Originally Posted by 4444
i'm pretty sure over 40km/h over you get an arse fucking and your car taken away (which i still don't know how they can do, legally, innocent until proven guilty and all, and it's not like you're impaired) - on a 60 bridge, 95 is 35 over, so it wouldn't have been a big deal (i believe <$200 ticket - i've been caught and ticketed for 96 on a 60 bridge (granville) - again this was at 8 am on a weekday and i was going with the flow of traffic, and i got a $13x ticket, they could have given me a slightly higher one, but not hugely more - i won't be found guilty so really, it's a $0 ticket and a waste of an hour of my time - which, honestly is getting to become worth more than $13x, but still...)
and if you were driving at 70km/h tonight or this morning, you would have been holding up traffic - remember there are only two puny lanes on that stupid bridge, this morning i had a big merc SUV up my backside - there's always someone wanting to go faster (and yes, as soon as i could get over i did, even at 80 or 90, whatever i was doing at that exact time)
if you're not comfortable in being able to slow down sufficiently at 80 when EVERYONE ELSE IS GOING 80, you're either way too close to the person in front or you're not paying close enough attention to the road
learn to drive people, put your coffees, phones, food, etc. down, two hands on the wheel at 9 and 3, 100% concentration on the road, and get going!
i'd also suggest you all drive manuals - actually makes you learn to drive, rather than just bumper cars we get in vancouver (i mean that figuratively and literally)
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