shhhhhhhh everyone still sleeping

I can not understand the total lack of police enforcement on the roads today. Drivers in my opinion have got the idea that they can do what they want when they want. There are going to be some serious things happen and everybody will cry why is this happening. Our people in charge should be held responsible but that wont happen.

go back to sleep

you;ll wake Gus up

Top of the morning to all of you! A long weekend! Wow, neat. Take care everyone and have a good family time.

Posted on Friday, February 5, 2016 @ 3:49 AM by big dog with a score of 0

I can not understand the total lack of police enforcement on the roads today

Keep your eyes open big dog, they are out there, I see them everyday.

Does anybody have any more information on the truck/pickup crash south of town?

What a mild winter so far..hope it keeps up :)

big dog, I seen a lot of tickets being written at different places yesterday….. I guess they can’t be everywhere at once…but I know they were out….and I think some of them were still at that accident south of town.

Can’t say I was thrilled to see snow yesterday, but will be happier when it goes today. I am not going to complain much about this winter as it really hasn’t been that bad.

Have great family weekend all.

There are 4 shifts of general duty police with somewhere between 10-14 police per shift to patrol the city and surrounding area roads of which there are in excess of 2700kms of roads within 20 miles of the city limits that is a lot of road to cover with limited resourses. Then you have the highway patrol with a given number per shift. Then there is traffic enforcement with a given number per shift.

There are 128 police in the city some work for Major crimes, Some Drug enforcement and then there are others who specialize like the police dog handlers of which there are 4 to cover all of Northern BC from 100 mile to the Yukon, alberta and Alaskan borders.

There are a limited number of police resources available and they can’t be everywhere and if you want more officers remember it costs us the taxpayers more to get more. Even if we were to get a city police force guess what we would still pay a lot even more than what we pay for RCMP services insurance, training, staffing all come with a cost.

Want more police on the roads then ask yourself how much more are you willing to pay taxes on to get more police.I for one would gladly pay for more police presence however are you willing to pay for more police.

Isn’t that what the “E”division is at 5th and Ospika ? I thought they patrolled the “out of town” areas. Obviously I’m wrong.

ICBC can chuck some of our insurance money into adding more to the traffic divisions. They keep jacking our rates because of “bad drivers”. Considering the cost of violation tickets, traffic cops should almost be able to cover their costs by writing fines. Tons of easy targets to become donaters, go sit on hwy 97 at Redrock or up on the Hart and give tickets until you get writer’s cramp. Avg morning speed up the Hart is 90+ km/hr in a 70 and 60km/hr zone. Cell phone abuse is everywhere, and aggresive driving as well. So tired of hearing about sensless deaths on our roads.
When 600 vehicles make it around a corner, but 1 vehicle crashes into the ditch… its not a road maintenance issue. When 3 vehicles stop for a pedestrian at a crosswalk and the 4th vehicle mows that person down…its not road conditions or poor lighting. People have got to realize that the onus is upon them to be safe and drive responsibly. No amount of finger pointing can bring back the dead. Smarten up, and be safe! Oh yeah… put your damned cell phone away when you”re driving too.
May you all have a safe family day long weekend.

5th and Ospika detachment is where The North District office is located and is responsible for all of Northern BC from 100 mile to the 3 borders.

The detachment office at 4th and Victoria is for policing the city of Prince George and surrounding areas. Traffic and highway patrol are stationed here as well.

The old Kal Tire building on 22nd is supposedly where the ERT, drug and special operations run from

I lost some faith in humanity yesterday. I had pulled over at a rest area and got out to stetch my legs. Walked a couple of steps and both feet came out from underneath me. Landing hard enough that I knocked my head and my glasses came off. After a moment of taking stock that nothing was broken other than my ego, I got up off the ground. Here’s the part that broke my heart. … There was a lady in a white car sitting no more than 30 feet from me on the phone. She didn’t even roll down her window to see if I was alright. …Just kept on chatting. ….

Aggressive drivers are the problem out there !! Driving defensively is what more people need to try. My daughter was on the highway last night driving for conditions (around 92 kms) when a pickup with light bright enough to shine through her car and light up in front of her , tailgated her for three kms and then passed her so close beside her that if it would have been a car their mirrors would have hit !! My wife was also with her and collaborated the episode. Not cool.

Dearth the 10 – 14 you speak of are City members. The highways are Provincial responsibility, hence North District responsibility. Sure they overlap when needed, to cover an accident. As a City taxpayer I would not want to see the City members patrolling the Rural roads, especially after Supt Brown pitched his case for additional members!

Yesterdays front page of the Citizen shows the accident at Buckhorn and the story is the lady took the picture moments after the accident. Boy were the first responders fast. They were there less than moments after the accident.

Tailgater Fix: Slow down more , pull more to the right if you can, the Idiot will pass you, not working take the next pullout or Side Road and let them all go. The Road will be yours again, until the next Idiot comes along ! So much in a rush to go no where ! To get home is the Name of the Game, in one Piece and no Scratches!

Made the mistake of buying a vehicle from Northland Hyundai a few years back. These sales people take slime to a whole knew level. Are people really stupid enough to believe them when they phone and say, “I have someone interested in your car, would you be interested in selling it?” Or when the sales person meets you in the service bay to ask if you’d like to trade in your current piece of crap for a different piece of crap?

I will never buy any vehicle from the Northland auto group can’t trust them as far as they can be thrown. Make lots of sales but their customer service and service departments suck and way overcharge you for damn near everything

all dealerships are expensive to deal with but the Northland auto group takes it to another level of expensive and slow service

Yes in PG cars and trucks are King . What else is there to life that could preempt car and driver obsession . Same thing every week . Keep right except when passing is the usual mantra . Missing in action this week . I like the way most here freak out over losing a few parking spots to cycling , just in case you might want to park on one of those spots one day in the future . And some say there is no appreciation of comedy in PG . I know you guys crack me up daily .

Here is a conundrum on taxes I borrowed from WUWT

“Here in Vancouver approximately 50% of the price of gasoline at the pump is tax. The provincial and federal governments collect billions of dollars each year in fuel taxes.

So the question is, how can governments afford to switch to renewable energy? Where will the money come from? It cannot come from renewables, because they have negative taxes. So who will pay?

For example, the BC government raised taxes on gasoline. People switched in large numbers to more fuel efficient cars. They were able to do this because the high cost of fuel combined with low interest rates on new cars made it cheaper on a monthly basis to buy a new car than stay with the old.

What the government had not counted on was the loss of revenue. The net result was a sharp reduction in government revenues from the tax hike. And this is the reality facing governments.

Revenue Neutral taxes are an illusion if you are replacing something that generates significant revenue with something that generates negative revenue. The difference must be made up somewhere. Ultimately that somewhere is you and me.”

Here is an interesting read on the carbon tax bs.

Carbon Taxes: Real Misery, Imaginary Results

Carbon taxes aren’t merely pointless, they’re regressive. Politicians earn ‘green’ cred by making life worse for the poor.

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When Canadian drivers fill up our gas tanks, 35% of the price we now pay is tax. If the average tank holds 64 litres, every time we gas up at $1 a litre, we’re handing over $22 not to the producers and distributors of this product, but to the government (see p. 4 here).

Since poor people have less money overall, taking $22 from them at the pump is a big deal. Via gasoline taxes, the poor are forced to pay a higher share of their income just to do ordinary things such as get to work, drop their kids at daycare, fetch groceries, and visit ailing relatives. This is called regressive taxation.

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a UK source explains the general concept of regressive taxation (click)

Here in Canada, we already pay two levels of sales tax, plus two or three excise taxes whenever we refuel our cars. In some jurisdictions, we also pay public transit taxes and carbon taxes (see p. 10). Still more of these are headed our way. The province of Alberta will be adding a carbon tax not only to gasoline, but to home heating bills. The province of Ontario is considering similar measures. So is our federal government.

We’re told that all of this is necessary in order to fight climate change. The theory is that, when taxes increase, people will use less gasoline and the climate will be saved. But we all know that’s not how things really work. When the $22 in tax we pay every time we gas up becomes $25 or $30, more affluent families will absorb the increase. They won’t be happy, but it won’t diminish their horizons.

It’s poor people, the ones already pinching their pennies, whose lives will be made more miserable. Since driving to work isn’t negotiable, there will be less money in these households for food, clothes, eyeglasses, dentists, and skating lessons for the kids. There will be fewer family vacations, and narrower prospects. As the end of the month approaches and the bills loom large, stress and conflict will be amplified.

All of this additional misery will be utterly pointless. What governments never tell us is that every Canadian man, woman, and child could stop emitting carbon dioxide altogether and it wouldn’t make a lick of difference. Our entire nation emits less than two percent of the worldwide total. China, by comparison, emits 23%.

Canadian emissions don’t matter. We could all shiver in hovels without gasoline or electricity for the rest of our lives. We could all stop driving and flying. We could all eschew the perishable and non-perishable goods currently being delivered to our communities via trucks, trains, and ships. None of it would affect the big picture.

Politicians see carbon taxes as a way to earn green halos in the saviour-of-the-planet fantasy films that run inside their own heads. But people who make themselves look good by increasing the suffering of others aren’t heroes. They’re contemptible narcissists.

http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2016/01/28/carbon-taxes-real-misery-imaginary-results/

Livingonwater, I am sorry to hear about your experience. Some people are just so wrapped up in themselves that they don’t see the rest of the world. Please have faith that most of us aren’t like that.

Still no scheduled pechakucha night in PG yet . Why?

An interesting commentary today from Andrew Coyne of the National Post:

Andrew Coyne: Trudeau’s first three months in power big on symbolism, short on substance

“Three months in, the governing style of Justin Trudeau’s government is coming into focus. It is one part not being Stephen Harper, one part symbolic gesture, one part wriggling out of campaign promises, and one part saying yes to everybody. You thought the Harper government was all about the permanent campaign? Get used to it.”

To read the entire column, delete the space between ht and tp

ht tp://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/trudeau-first-three-months-in-power

The Albertasolar pechakucha was amazing . 550 ppl attended . Very inspiring .

The national rag also lost elxn42 and just can’t get over it . Going all pouty like our resident righties . Oh , the selfies , oh the openness , oh the getting along . Can they take any more ? Let’s hope not . Will they ever get over their loss ? Let’s hope they stew in their own juice and spew for the duration . Makes me smile .

Andrew Coyne is a creep.
Cheers

Ataloss and Retired 02, why am I not surprised by your comments regarding Andrew Coyne’s commentary, haha!

Trudeau is leading you down the garden path and you guys keep defending this twit, haha!

Each and every new day brings yet another example of the incompetence of this clown! But you guys keep the faith! Somebody has to! ;-)

So today I read that the Union representing thousands of B.C. government workers, the BCGEU, has signed an accord vowing to oppose pipelines from crossing the territories of 130 First Nations.

BCGEU Treasurer was asked whether the union had concerns about opposing pipelines that could create jobs for British Columbians.

His response? Finch said it did not!

I wonder how the BCGEU expects it’s members to get paid their regular paycheque, when nobody else is working and paying taxes?

I have a good tailgater fix too. Its a 6″ very sturdy drop hitch and soon to add led light bar under back bumper.
May even get some ridiculously bright lights to play with others who willfully blind people. “Hey a*hole.. nice lightbar! I will see you your blinding lightbar and raise you my aircraft landing lights” and giggle as he sees nothing but spots for a while. Cant beat em.. the join em. At least I will only retaliate, not instigate. (thats OK right?)

I have a good friend thats a Senior and has worked hard all her life and is in the Hospital , waiting to be placed in one of our care facilities, it could take up to a year. I think there is something wrong with his picture. The Connaught Field that was just sold off should have had some plan in the works to expand the Gateway Complex.

Hart guy.. I just did some research.. You know what.. Harper lost the election..

Bitter.. I hear you.. my mother waited over 14 months to get a bed in a seniors home in town.. The food isn’t the best..but the care is pretty good. They do have lots for them to do.

Places like that chateau and the other high end seniors home charge big bucks to stay there. Whats really sad is when I go to visit my mom I see so many waiting day after day for their family to come visit and they rarely see them. So many forgotten.

How about Harpers last gouge before he was shipped off

“The price tag for the 2015 federal election has come in at $443 million, up 53 per cent from the $290 million the 2011 election cost taxpayers, according to the Elections Canada preliminary estimate”

Pval how is that Harpers last gouge? Is that not the cost of all parties in the election?

Andrew Coyne is not so bad (for a Con). Heck, even CBC likes him. Speaking of CBC…check out the Rick Mercer rant about Rona Ambrose last week. That was awesome !

Hey Hart,Where did you find that deal about dead money opposing the pipelines. I wouldn’t mind reading more.

Val; The reason the Seniors have to wait so long is hard to place people are being put into Senior housing. In one of the nicest assisted living places in P.G. had a person placed in it that had burned their bridges in other Government housing and was placed with the Seniors there is not a lot wrong with this person that they can’t look after themselves.

“What governments never tell us is that every Canadian man, woman, and child could stop emitting carbon dioxide altogether and it wouldn’t make a lick of difference. Our entire nation emits less than two percent of the worldwide total. China, by comparison, emits 23%.”

Every country has refused to come on board and do its share of GHG emissions unless all countries agree to come on board under the same condition. The USA would not participate in anything because they felt that those who did not participate would have an unfair advantage.

The numbers are based on each country’s GHG total and much less on the population. If a calculation per capita is made Canada looks even worse.

So if we expect the EU, Africa, South America, the USA, Korea and Japan, China and India to cut their emissions we have to be involved in the efforts as well, otherwise where is our credibility?

I am, like many others, so sick and tired of the crazy and dangerous drivers on our roads nowadays. Driving used to be enjoyable before but not now. The RCMP cannot be everywhere at the same time. So is it possible to help out? I think so.

Something has to change!!!

I just want to throw out this topic…only for discussion…

“Citizens Arrest”.

As I understand it, it is legal still in Canada. Google it yourself….Citizens arrest bc ca.

Here’s a scenario…
I am driving down Ospika hill in the curb lane, from Tyler Blvd. and the speed now is 50 klm. On the left hand lane a driver is passing me going approx. 70-80 klm. and talking on a cell phone, oblivious to anyone else on the road.

Or…

Someone is tailgating me while I am driving the correct speed limit and blinding me with their headlights on high beam purposely.

What are my options with Citizens Arrest, in mind??

What do you think??

Citizens arrest in a criminal offence, yes but there are serious limitations, and you damn well better know the law, or you will get yer butt sued off.
Motor Vehicle Act or Regs, phone police.

Watchdog, your comment was foolish, your actions will cause an accident.
Just pull over and let them go by. Why add to the problem?

It was a gouge by making the election so long.. Was no need for it.. Harper was trying to copy the USA strategy of making elections a business I guess.. But as the kids say today. Epic Fail on his part.

Who’s Rick Mercer???

PG there is no science that shows if mans emissions of a trace gas have any effect on climate if any at all. Heck science can’t even figure the natural causes of climate. All this BS is about politics, money and power.

Hey ask the science columnist for the citizen to show you the verifiable reproducible science that proves mans emissions affect climate.

In Australia the government is told the science is settled so the government said great then we don’t need you folks anymore so fired 350 of them. That is a rub, hey.

Hey PVal it gets worse . Due to Stevie’s fair elections act . We ( all Canadian tax payers ) get to reimburse the Conservative party half of every dollar they spent in their failed attempt to get re-elected . Plus they of coarse spent the most . They should be able to buy him something really nice , like when they bought Mulroney a two and a half million dollar Manson on mont royal . For loosing and dumping the mess on the liberals . Ain’t politics fun and profitable .

I was just reading some real estate on the hart highway and had no idea your traffic numbers are 20000 plus per day . No wonder you are driving each other nuts . 1880 hart Hwy looks interesting .

Actually, Ataloss, Stevie eliminated the government reimbursement of election spending, stating that political party’s supporters should pay their own way.

Don’t talk facts with stockaloss dirtman, his pea brain will explode.

Where is Waldo (Stephen Harper) these days ? Did Rona tell him to go hide in the closet ?

Being a follow the money guy I keep thinking , where will Stephen Harper land . And will Baird have more seniority . Ppt.

Old Spruceland roof is failing. I was in there tonight at 9pm using the Scotia bank ATM when I heard some crashing noise and what sounded like one of those water falls in a tropical hotel… I looked around and sure enough in the bank itself the roof had collapsed and water was pouring through from the roof. Might be a run on the bank tomorrow… lol.

Then I’m driving down 15th by Auto-magic and some guy on a tricycle like bicycle with all his belongings in it goes speeding out from a side road and right across the 15th in the pitch black with no reflective gear; without even so much as a shoulder look; almost like an act of suicide by car, or maybe so high on something that he just doesn’t give a damn. I might have stopped two inches from clipping him, honked the horn and it didn’t even phase him.

Geez… lol

Trudeau really failed Canada signing the TPP agreement. We know he is in with the globalist bankers for sure now.

The Office of Physicops in the City of London must be really full of themselves with this latest death cult of theirs.

Ataloss and his pet unicorns.