Take a few college kids with a few wrecks and abandon them on a certain locations. ie., Massey tunnel, Alex Frasier, Iron Workers Memorial...Etc, and you'll see what a lousy infrastructure Vancouver has.
If you have to cut down 10 trees, studies must be done. You live in a city. Get used to less trees or move. But let progress proceed.
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Vancouver Drivers not so bad after all...
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This is one of the worst... summer, or even all-season. Frankly, I've never been offered a "summer" tire when I've gone for new ones, it must be something you have to ask for specifically... why on earth would anyone do that? Anyway, "all-seasons" aren't much better (they're really three-season tires), especially once the nice light powdery snow warms up and turns into hard pack and ice and slush.TheLionKing wrote:Most of the people who causes accidents are driving with summer tires
Pet peeve: "undue care" is the exact opposite of what you're getting at. What that phrase says, is that one is using MORE care than is due the conditions. The correct term here is "without due care".or undue care given the weather conditions.
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I beg to differ with your generalized opinion of "all season". In winnipeg, we were advised by many in the business to put top of the line michelin all season tires on our car and it worked quite well for nine long snow filled manitoba winters. As I said elsewhere, no one not driving a 4x4 did any better and most not as well.Soundy wrote:This is one of the worst... summer, or even all-season. Frankly, I've never been offered a "summer" tire when I've gone for new ones, it must be something you have to ask for specifically... why on earth would anyone do that? Anyway, "all-seasons" aren't much better (they're really three-season tires), especially once the nice light powdery snow warms up and turns into hard pack and ice and slush.TheLionKing wrote:Most of the people who causes accidents are driving with summer tires
Pet peeve: "undue care" is the exact opposite of what you're getting at. What that phrase says, is that one is using MORE care than is due the conditions. The correct term here is "without due care".or undue care given the weather conditions.
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I'll rephrase a bit: All-season tires are nowhere near as good as proper winter/snow tires in the snow and ice. They're not NECESSARILY awful - the Goodyear Wrangler SR-As that came on our Jeep actually handled the snow pretty nicely - but snow tires are always better. Plus, "all-season" is a pretty broad term and there seems to be a pretty wide variation in how different "all-season" tires handle the snow.KnowItAll wrote:I beg to differ with your generalized opinion of "all season". In winnipeg, we were advised by many in the business to put top of the line michelin all season tires on our car and it worked quite well for nine long snow filled manitoba winters. As I said elsewhere, no one not driving a 4x4 did any better and most not as well.
My co-worker put new SNOW tires on his AWD Previa work van and tried to go cut donuts in a snowy parking lot... couldn't do it. He couldn't get the van to slide more than a couple inches for ANYTHING.
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I thought you needed RWD for donuts, and FWD lets you do reverse donuts, AWD/4WD no fun?Soundy wrote:I'll rephrase a bit: All-season tires are nowhere near as good as proper winter/snow tires in the snow and ice. They're not NECESSARILY awful - the Goodyear Wrangler SR-As that came on our Jeep actually handled the snow pretty nicely - but snow tires are always better. Plus, "all-season" is a pretty broad term and there seems to be a pretty wide variation in how different "all-season" tires handle the snow.KnowItAll wrote:I beg to differ with your generalized opinion of "all season". In winnipeg, we were advised by many in the business to put top of the line michelin all season tires on our car and it worked quite well for nine long snow filled manitoba winters. As I said elsewhere, no one not driving a 4x4 did any better and most not as well.
My co-worker put new SNOW tires on his AWD Previa work van and tried to go cut donuts in a snowy parking lot... couldn't do it. He couldn't get the van to slide more than a couple inches for ANYTHING.
Nothng worse in snow that a RWD pickup.
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I got some pretty good donuts going in the Jeep with the 4WD LOCK turned on (it's active 4WD, normally front-biased) and the "ESP" stability control turned off. Once the back end is sliding, it's pretty easy to keep it going
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The rubber used in all-season and summer tires actually gets harder below about 5-7 degrees... hard rubber doesn't adhere to things, especially when it can't flex to follow the road (witness your average hockey puck). Winter tires are composed of a softer rubber that remains flexible and maintains friction better at lower temperatures, as well as having wider grooves with different edge designs that grip into the snow and can then release it, rather than just having it pack into the grooves and stay there, further reducing traction.ziggy wrote:Seems the tire companies are now suggesting a winter tire as opposed to all season due to performance at colder temps. I guess it has to do with the compounds.
The reason you don't leave them on all year is that they wear out ridiculously fast once it warms up (that, plus the larger groove pattern doesn't handle water as well as a summer/all-season tire).
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Continuing the topic that KIA and SP mentioned, whether Vancouver drivers are really bad remains to be seen but the latest traffic poll is certainly not encouraging news. With more traffic will come impatience, frustration, and road rage.
1. Los Angeles
2. Vancouver
3. Miami
4. Seattle
5. Tampa
6. San Francisco
7. Washington DC
8. Houston
9. Toronto
10. Ottawa
11. Atlanta
12. Montreal
13. San Diego
14. Chicago
15. New York
16. Calgary
17. Philadelphia
18. Dallas-Fort Worth
19. Boston
20. Baltimore
21. Riverside
22. Phoenix
23. Edmonton
24. St. Louis
25. Detroit
26. Minneapolis
The full list:Vancouver is the worst city in Canada for traffic congestion and the second worst in North America.
1. Los Angeles
2. Vancouver
3. Miami
4. Seattle
5. Tampa
6. San Francisco
7. Washington DC
8. Houston
9. Toronto
10. Ottawa
11. Atlanta
12. Montreal
13. San Diego
14. Chicago
15. New York
16. Calgary
17. Philadelphia
18. Dallas-Fort Worth
19. Boston
20. Baltimore
21. Riverside
22. Phoenix
23. Edmonton
24. St. Louis
25. Detroit
26. Minneapolis
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祝你龍年行大運。
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改建後的卑詩體育館於二十十一年九月三十日重新對外開放,首場體育活動為同日舉行的加拿大足球聯賽賽事,由主場的卑詩雄獅隊以三十三比二十四擊敗愛民頓愛斯基摩人隊。
祝你龍年行大運。
恭喜西雅图海鹰直到第四十八屆超級盃最終四十三比八大勝曾拿下兩次超級盃冠軍的丹佛野馬拿下隊史第一個超級盃冠軍。