"thebigbossyboss" (thebigbossyboss)
10/29/2015 at 18:30 • Filed to: None
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"thebigbossyboss" (thebigbossyboss)
10/29/2015 at 18:30 • Filed to: None | 2
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The CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corp) set up shop near Bowmanville Ontario on Ontario Highway 401 to record traffic speed. The speed limit is 100 km/h (62 MPH). 45,000 cars drove past their location in the course of 24 hours. 37,000 of them were speeding.
The speed limits in Ontario are unreasonable beyond belief.
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thebigbossyboss
> thebigbossyboss
10/29/2015 at 18:32 |
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If anyone would like to know, I too speed on the 401 but go slower than most.
CB
> thebigbossyboss
10/29/2015 at 18:34 |
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... this has to be photoshopped. I know exactly where this is (401 between Yonge Street and Bayview), and have never seen it this empty. The only other explanation is construction. Or the apocalypse.
Toyota Sucks Lots Of Sausages
> thebigbossyboss
10/29/2015 at 18:36 |
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It’s time to raise it by 10 to 20, at least.
But then they would complain about the costs of updating all the speed limit signs, or something lame like “increase in accidents” bullshit.
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thebigbossyboss
> CB
10/29/2015 at 18:36 |
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According to the caption, in 2008 the 401 was closed along this section due to some propane explosions.
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thebigbossyboss
> Toyota Sucks Lots Of Sausages
10/29/2015 at 18:37 |
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A) Your user name is ridiculous, and B I agree. Ontario is spending money out the wazoo anyways, we may as well make our roads a little safer as we go about it.
PS9
> thebigbossyboss
10/29/2015 at 18:39 |
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You honestly expect people to only go 60 on a road like this!?!?!
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CB
> thebigbossyboss
10/29/2015 at 18:39 |
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I vaguely recall that (my mum’s house is slightly right of the photo).
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> thebigbossyboss
10/29/2015 at 18:40 |
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Prevailing speed of traffic is a thing. Who knew?
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thebigbossyboss
> CB
10/29/2015 at 18:40 |
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See you soon at aulde dubliner. Do you want any of my old car magazines?
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CB
> thebigbossyboss
10/29/2015 at 18:42 |
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Not particularly. I have too many of my own.
My citroen won't start
> thebigbossyboss
10/29/2015 at 18:44 |
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Yeah buddy, our speed limit is 37 mph now.
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CB
> PS9
10/29/2015 at 18:47 |
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Most of the time, good luck going 100 km/h here. It gets super packed with traffic because lanes randomly join in and are terminated, as well as directly leading to the worst interchange in Canada, the 401-404-DVP. This bit of highway blows so hard.
Source: learned to drive here (I lived to the right of the photo)
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Toyota Sucks Lots Of Sausages
> thebigbossyboss
10/29/2015 at 18:47 |
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My user name is the result of careful consideration to assimilate as a true jalop. I’m as grounded to the ground like the ground grounding itself to itself.
Back on topic, I also believe that raising the speed limit will actually make the highways safer. My only remaining concern is that of lane-etiquette, which many motorists of today still have no real concept of.
Svend
> thebigbossyboss
10/29/2015 at 18:51 |
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U.K. speed limits are 70mph(112kph) on motorways and 60mph(96kph) on ‘A’ roads and dual carriageways.
Though after dusk on the motorway in my county the majority are doing between 90mph(145kph) and 120mph(193kph).
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thebigbossyboss
> Toyota Sucks Lots Of Sausages
10/29/2015 at 18:52 |
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speed differential is the danger not total speed I agree.
My first car was a 1988 corolla. I like toyota’s from the 80’s but not much else by them.
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thebigbossyboss
> Svend
10/29/2015 at 18:53 |
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Going 120 mph on the motorway is dumb at night. How can you see if there is a moose?
Jarrett - [BRZ Boi]
> thebigbossyboss
10/29/2015 at 18:59 |
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A buck twenty or bust on 400 series.
Buck thirty on 407.
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Toyota Sucks Lots Of Sausages
> thebigbossyboss
10/29/2015 at 19:02 |
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True enough about the speed differential, hence lane-etiquette comes into play.
I have no issues with Toyota, but I must serve my civic duty as a true jalop by hating on them for no rational reason whatsoever. I also hate Lexus only because they stole my ugly face as their corporate grill without permission or compensation.
I deserve an LFA at the very least.
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Jarrett - [BRZ Boi]
> Toyota Sucks Lots Of Sausages
10/29/2015 at 19:03 |
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Lane etiquette isn’t that bad once you get east of Bowmanville. In the populated areas is a crap shoot :)
(At least semis don’t hog the left lane though)
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Jarrett - [BRZ Boi]
> thebigbossyboss
10/29/2015 at 19:06 |
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High beams to get the whites of their eyes!
Tohru
> thebigbossyboss
10/29/2015 at 19:06 |
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Normal people: “Clearly the speed limit is set way too low on that section of road.”
Idiots: “We need to ticket all of these people that are breaking the law!”
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Svend
> thebigbossyboss
10/29/2015 at 19:08 |
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Lol. We don’t have any wild moose in Cumbria.
To be fair there are stretches where there is nothing at all (but scenery).
Rainbow
> thebigbossyboss
10/29/2015 at 19:09 |
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Experts agree that the faster a car is going, the more dangerous accidents can be.
Experts also agree that the Pope is Catholic and bears shit in the woods.
schwartz
> thebigbossyboss
10/29/2015 at 19:13 |
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I don’t know about you but I don’t see 150km/h as dangerously fast. Texas has speed limits that approach 140km/h.
RallyWrench
> thebigbossyboss
10/29/2015 at 19:18 |
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Does Canadia or that area have a “prevailing speed” clause, by which you can fight tickets or petition for increased limits based on the average speed of traffic on a given road? I know some US municipalities do.
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thebigbossyboss
> Jarrett - [BRZ Boi]
10/29/2015 at 22:13 |
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I have never been on the 407. I like to go 110 on the 401, and stick to the right side. Even though I am a slow poke....I am still speeding haha.
Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
> Jarrett - [BRZ Boi]
10/30/2015 at 07:59 |
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130 is actually what the majority of cops set their radar at on 407 (for the type where they just set a speed and sit back and have a donut while they wait for it to go off). So maybe go 128.
I'd never heard of that, but my brother-in-law was told that when he got pulled over once.