Changing Driving Behaviour

Stop traffic tickets that are designed to collect money.

Pass a legislation that forces every driver to answer 10 questions per month. In 1 year a person would have answered 120 questions in 10 years 1,200 questions and see how tickets vanish.

Fix the yellow light to be more than 4 seconds long because one needs the hell of a hard brake to stop with 4 seconds.

We all know and the municipality too. Money money money for municipal budgets. Sad but true

If this is not true then force people to enter the ICBC test program every month. 10 questions is literally 10 minutes.

Since the COVID pandemic, it seems that there has been an influx of mainlanders on the island. They haven’t yet adapted to the zen nature of our culture and it seems that people have become more in a hurry and I don't really understand why.

I avoid the Nanaimo Parkway or Island Highway for this reason and try to go on the less travelled roads.

I cannot comment on the efficacy of handing out speeding tickets but people are always racing to get somewhere.

My late father used to say, better to be a live chicken than a dead duck!!!

Not sure what the allocation is for traffic, but it APPEARS that there are less patrol cars on the roads..there is more and more manpower directed at the unhoused than vehicle issues..”where’s a cop when you need one?”

Behaviour that is rewarded is behaviour that is repeated.  To understand what is going on, just ask yourself: what behaviour is being rewarded?

A few years ago, I would have thought that technology could be used to consistently follow up on speeding and other infractions, but now I think the culture of disrespect for laws and order has been made acceptable by the Government of today.

A ticket that is in the recipient’s view justified, does I believe contribute to driver behaviour change. However, and particularly in the case of speeding, when the driver feels the ticket has not been fairly issued I don’t believe anything changes. I think drivers believe that revenue generation and quotas are the reason they were given a ticket so wouldn’t alter their performance.

I have driven many many times on the Nanaimo bypass at the posted speed limit and almost invariably I am passed by cars going over and well over the posted limit of 90 km/h. The bad part of my note is the fact that I rarely see any police presence 

I don’t think the traffic sections are proactive enough. A quarter of the tickets issued were by a camera well after the fact and without points. I received my fair share of tickets when I was a young driver and points mattered to us.  Plus this may not even be the wayward driver who is punished.  

Other than the Highway detachments, I rarely see an active traffic stop. I think behaviour patterns are more susceptible to change when the consequences are immediately felt and involve having to talk to an enforcement officer.

The only time I see a group of traffic officers doing enforcement is handheld device checks at red lights. Where did the old fashion “radar trap” go?  Not the race and chase kind, I mean the flag them onto a parking lot kind.