Parking

vehicle parkingAccording to Reinventing Parking, our cars sit idle for 95% of their lives. This means that we need a proper place to store them when they are not being used. The nature of the demand for parking spaces has created a collection of rules and defines the urgency for their enforcement.

Roundabout or Uncontrolled Intersection?

BC Courts Coat of ArmsThis case involves the determination of liability for a two vehicle collision in a traffic circle (referred to as a roundabout in the decision) at the intersection of Jervis Street and Nelson Street in Vancouver. At the time there were no yield signs posted making this an uncontrolled intersection and requiring drivers to yield to the right.

Measuring Vehicle Speed With Laser

Laser GunI can remember the anticipation when our highway patrol unit was issued it's first laser speed measuring device, an LTI 20/20 Marksman. Imagine! Here was a device that we could point at a single vehicle in the traffic stream and accurately measure only it's speed. It was fast enough to re-target and measure the vehicles around it too. No one would want to use hand held radar once we were trained on this.

Preparing to Give Way

give way to approaching ambulanceSirens! I'm being overtaken by an ambulance on the way to a call. In order to give way, I signal, move out of the right lane onto the shoulder and stop. Traffic around me seems to be well aware today too as they are doing much the same thing.

Highway Lines Don't Last

New BC LogoWhen the Government of Canada put an end to the use of oil based paint for marking highway lines in 2010 the durability that we had come to expect ended. Since that time the Ministry of Transportation and Transit has been searching for and testing suitable replacements.