Path: utzoo!utgpu!bnr-vpa!bnr-fos!tpc
From: tpc@bnr-fos.UUCP (Tom Chmara)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Highway Driving Rules
Message-ID: <393@bnr-fos.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 89 12:38:39 GMT
References: <13189@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <8904101406.AA16291@king.csri.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: tpc@bnr-fos.UUCP (Tom Chmara)
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In article <8904101406.AA16291@king.csri.toronto.edu> clarke@csri.toronto.edu (Jim Clarke) writes:
>Things are really very different on two-lane roads from four-lane ones.
>And I notice that a lot of drivers now seem not to know how to deal with
>the two-lane situation, at least in the areas around Toronto where I
>get a chance to watch.  Maybe in northern Ontario the old skills are still
>alive.

Being from North Bay, and having driven thru a fair amount of N. Ontario,
I can safely say that things are worse now than they used to be.  My father
(now retired -- geez, he STILL smiles when he says that!) drove ~20K miles
per year through N. Ontario (mining consulting), covering lots of the
province, has noticed a steady deterioration of the driving abilities of
northerners.  Especially with respect to maintaining speed on the roadway
(i.e. not doing 60 in an 80) and making all your movements SMOOTH.  Too damned
many white-knuckle drivers out there.

>
>My gosh, I sound old.

Oh?  I can't hear you from here.  Must be creaking knees :-)

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