Warning? You get caught pay the fine and the point. No more warnings and start charging cell phone users with impaired driving!!!!!

I agree. And it’s a good place for a photo radar camera. I’ve had so many drivers tailgating through there,its ridiculous.
There are children throughout and walking to the store from the campground, but people don’t think, they just wanna go…

While I am happy to see them doing this I would like to see some, maybe even just a little enforcement on the laws they don’t even bother with. It’s not all about the four sins of “texting” “speeding” “seat belts” and “DUI”

It would be a treat to see an enforcement blitz on things like oh say stopping in a merge lane.

The intersection of hwy 16 and hwy 97 is the most dangerous right now according to ICBC. I would recon that if the data was public and it may be so that the vast majority of collisions at that intersection are “rear end” in the merge lane of 97N onto 16W. I can safely say I’ve seen at least 20 this year alone.

Maybe they could target those that run the left turn arrow That one should be good for two or three per rotation.

How about unsecure loads? How about unsafe vehicles? It’s absolutely unreal the amount of vehicles I see going down the road sideways, one headlight missing, brake/ turn missing and I mean missing as in not attached.

Oh and while I am at it, It’s not cool and is dangerous to the driving public and for the RCMP to literally sit in the middle of the road to do whatever enforcement they were doing last month.

I am speaking about the unmarked Suburban sitting in the middle of Ferry between the cemetary and the School district office and the marked pick up parked against the center divider on Hwy 16 at the new Sandman.

Another problem is that even the traffic laws are not too clear about what it means to be travelling at a speed above the posted speed limit! One is NOT to impede the prevailing flow of the traffic by going slower than that. However, if one tries to drive at exactly the posted limit one gets tailgated mercilessly and becomes an obstacle on every highway and road anywhere in B.C., not only Prince George!

It appears that everybody adds 15 clicks in the city and out on the road! People know from experience that then the RCMP will not write a ticket – just a verbal warning is the usual outcome! If the limits would actually be enforced they would mean something…

People will virtually risk their lives trying to pass when one is travelling at 78 when the posted limit is 70.

Not to mention that these habits have been passed on to drivers from their parents and grandparents and now they are teaching their children how to speed, pass on a solid line and never really stop at stop sign!

Good luck getting a handle on it that late in the game!

More bumper stickers that read ( Hang Up And Drive).Concerning school zones- some of the worst offenders are the parents or parents driving the kid to school. What happened to kids walking to school? However, thats’ another topic.

I drove through Hixon during the winter and was tailgated by a semi. I was likely going about 60 to 65 kph. In my recent frequent travels on 97 south I find that the worse drivers are the truckers, especially the ones who seem to have an empty load. The loaded ones have a habit of speeding up prior to a hill to get up enough momentum to keep up a “reasonable” speed going up it.

The problem with the cell phone fine is that it is just a fine with no points so you can garner as many fines in a yr as you want with just a $167 fine assign points to fines and watch the tune change.

When I get faster traffic behind me even if I am at or close to the speed limit I make it safe for them to pass so that I am not put at risk. How many on this site do that. Also I stay in the right lane unless passing or turning.

Seamutt, HOW do you “make it safe for them to pass” when being tailgated within a few feet driving in the right hand lane on a two lane highway (rather than a four lane) when you are already going a bit faster than the posted limit to allow for a small speedometer error?

All of the above points are good, but BCRacer hit it on the head. Until there is more teeth behind these fines it will be same old same old. I generallyrun on cruise in the summer at or close to the speed limit, and am usually the slowest vehicle on the road. Doing the speed limit has another advantage (in a 150 ) 4-5 mpg better.

All increased fines will do is clog up the courts as everyone will want to fight their tickets in the chance that the officer won’t show up. If he/she does show up in court, his/her time would be better served actually fighting crime.

Stay in the right Lane and do the Speed Limit and for Tailgaters what can they do ? ram you ? If he is a real Idiot you can pull over if possible and let him go. Aggressive Tailgating should be like Drunk Driving!

I am not going to claim to be a perfect driver here, but one thing I just can’t wrap my head around are the people who insist on driving 80 km/hr on the highway. I travel on the highway daily because of where I live and I see the same people do it consistantly. I usually just pass them when I can but what a pain! I think that if you only plan on traveling at 80 km and hour in a 100km an hour zone, please be prepared to pull over and let people go by. These people I see usually have a line up of about 5 – 10 cars behind them, all of them looking for a safe time to pass. Sorry, just a pet peev of mine I thought I would share.

Also its usually these people who travel at 80km an hour that speed up to 110km an hour when a passing lane comes up. Arg! I’m sure I can’t be the only one who sees this happening all the time!

I love this topic because the law is so schizo. From MV ACT

Slow driving
145 (1) A person must not drive a motor vehicle at so slow a speed as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic, except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law.

So you’d think if the traffic is doing 115 in a 100 zone, you should do 115 – NO!!!!

3) If the minister responsible for the administration of the Transportation Act has caused a sign to be erected or placed on a highway limiting the rate of speed of motor vehicles or a category of motor vehicles driven or operated on that portion of the highway, a person must not, when the sign is in place on the highway, drive or operate a vehicle on that portion of the highway at a greater rate of speed than that indicated on the sign for that category of motor vehicle.

SO – the speed limit – is the limit – and yet why have I passed so many radar traps 10% over the limit and the cop yawned as I went by – because the effective limit is about 10% higher than the posted limit, and then there’s the drivers who feel that the effective limit is the real limit so it’s okay to go 10% over that again.

Personally, I don’t care how fast you go, just stay off my butt when I’m doing the speed limit or greater. On a 30 km drive at 100 k – it takes 18 minutes, at 120 k 15 minutes – so to gain 3 freakin minutes you have to put your life, my life, and everyone elses life at risk. Where do you work that 3 minutes will cost you your job.

but ski50, thats also 20%. If you drive the yearly average of 30,000 kms per year you could save up to 50 hours, or two full days of your life ;)

Fun with numbers interceptor. According to natural resources Canada, you burn 20% more fuel at 120, than 100. According to them, average vehicle burns 8.5 litres per 100 at 100, and 10.5 litres at 120. So you burn an extra 2 litres per 100 so over 30,000 k, that’s 600 litres at 1.42 a litre equals $766.80 a year or $17.04 per hour – tax free. Same as making $27.00 an hour before tax, cpp and ei. And all you gotta do, is sit in your car, listen to your music, and relax.

It’s 77 metres to stop at 100, 107 metres to stop at 120. 30 metres may cost you more than 50 hours,if the object of collision is a moose. And if it’s a kid?

But I’m assuming you were just showing how numbers can say all sorts of things and weren’t really serious because you don’t lose those 50 hours, you just spend them in your car, rather than in the Tim Hortons line up :)

Let’s just shoot everyone that speeds. After all they are the scourge of society right. Some of you are absolutely incredible.

From one extreme to the other: One comments not to give them any tickets (let them do whatever they want because they will appeal and clog up the court system and hamstring the cops) and another says just shoot them!

I saw lots of tailgating today…plus just about any other merriment one can imagine, including texting while driving!

Laws that are not enforced are a scourge of society because they are more useless than no laws at all! Society falsely thinks it is protected when there are laws, but is more on guard when there are none and expects nothing.

PG: “One comments not to give them any tickets (let them do whatever they want because they will appeal and clog up the court system and hamstring the cops)…”

This sounds like my comment. If so, you might want to read it again. I never said that tickets shouldn’t be given out, just that exponentially increasing fines could have negative effects in other areas.

I am reading it again. It’s still the same. O.k., you win.

I win?

All I am saying is, in the future, if you want to make a point, please don’t misquote me and then apply your interpretation to the misquote.

I did not put anything in quotation marks so relax.

My opinion is (still) that just because some people may challenge a ticket in court and thereby clog up the system and waste the time of the police one ought not go to an extreme and not write tickets in order to prevent that from happening.

Got to love those people that love to drive in your blind spot for a very long time… They are everywhere.