Author: Carmen Cohoe
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Traffic Light Visibility & Buses Or Large Vehicles
Click or not: Traffic Light Visibility & Buses Or Large VehiclesTraffic Light Visibility Issues Trucks, buses, and other large vehicles present us with reduced visibility If you’ve been driving for a while, or if you are just beginning, you may have noticed this perceived ‘phenomenon.’ Traffic light visibility seems sometimes nonexistent. You know there’s an intersection, but where is the traffic light? What color is… …
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What is a Crosswalk? Easy Guide to Marked & Unmarked
Click or not: What is a Crosswalk? Easy Guide to Marked & UnmarkedWhat is a Crosswalk Exactly? I sometimes ask this question “What is a crosswalk? Are you sure you know?” It seems there is a bit of confusion around this subject so I’m hoping to make some sense today. What Is A Crosswalk? Marked Crosswalks at Intersections I am sure we can all agree that this… …
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Pedestrian Safety
Click or not: Pedestrian SafetyPedestrians Of 2022 Learn more about being a safe pedestrian today. Because, well, someone’s gotta do it. As you may or may not have thought about, there is more to being a safe pedestrian than looking both ways before crossing the street. And everyone knows that if a pedestrian and vehicle have a fight, the… …
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Alberni Highway – Turning Left Over Yellow Highway Lines
Click or not: Alberni Highway – Turning Left Over Yellow Highway LinesTurning Left Question: Hello our office is in the 1300 block of the Alberni Highway on Vancouver Island. There have been two accidents within a few months of each other. One serious and the other not as bad but the car did end up rear ended in the ditch. People are trying to turn left… …
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How To Adjust The Side View Mirrors In The Car
Click or not: How To Adjust The Side View Mirrors In The CarQ: What is the proper mirror adjustment for side mirrors? I usually adjust it so I can just barely see the side of my car. How big of a blind spot does this cause? I have seen several places online say that you should push the mirrors out further than this to eliminate blind spots.… …
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One Big Lane Splitting Into Two Little Lanes
Click or not: One Big Lane Splitting Into Two Little LanesLane Splitting Can be Confusing When I turn right from No. 2 road onto River Road, there is a wide single lane. After a short while, it splits into a left turn & a ‘go straight’ lane (lane splitting). Should I use the middle lane position if I want go straight? One big lane: One… …
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Passing A Left Turning Vehicle
Click or not: Passing A Left Turning VehicleQuestion : This is a (possibly stupid) question about indicating, but I cannot find a definitive answer. It’s about passing a left turning vehicle. To indicate or not to indicate? At a lot of intersections, a single lane become two or more lanes, so passing the left turning car on the right would require a… …
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When The Traffic Signals Are Out
Click or not: When The Traffic Signals Are OutQuestion: I was curious about the dark-traffic-light rule. Common advice seems to be to treat the intersection as a 4-way stop, but what should you do when NOBODY is stopping at all. I watched at Quebec and National as nobody slowed or stopped. OK, it’s a three-way intersection (four-way if you add in the Science… …
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Is It Illegal to Drive with High Beams?
Click or not: Is It Illegal to Drive with High Beams?Here is a question we get asked a lot. And it’s a good one. Is it illegal to drive with high beams in BC? High beams are literally higher beams, so they can tend to blind the people driving towards you. And if you think about that, it’s a bit scary! Legally in BC, you… …