a oe Sunday, June §

IN TORONTO, I have
discovered that people drive
very slowly indeed. ;
It’s maddening. Here they are’
with all these freeways, and still
drivers are crawling along — al the
i speed limit, for God's sake! i
aln Vancouver—anywhere in the
» Vancouver: area—you'd get run
“over if you tied that. Or at least

re you'd have cars: pushing up on”
c

your rear bumper. Driving is more
of a stampede than any kind of.
orderly advance,

“The truth ofthe matter: is that, °
living on the West Coast, J have ..
_acquired some rather terrible dri
“ing habits. , of

‘Ttend to drive awfully duinne
fast. . :
ET ETD

lewe. ‘have a situation: :
on the West Coast “that.
‘is. kind of perpetual
road. madness similar to,
what has. just happened ,
“in France; fe a
drivers,. convinced there,
was Soon going to bea
general amnesty for.
traffi ic offences, began
“to. ignor tne law. en:

ots tendericy to how has crept °

up on us! It wasn t always, thus. #

} ple of them took’a. bead on me:
had to jump at. the last’ minute.

too.: 1am starting to do the same
At first, being a good British:
n, I couldn’ t figure out

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© strictly ‘personal ©

what was happening. A picket: line
being cheered on? Hardly likely.

‘L wasn't even 5 ure where the
: horn on my steering wheel is. 1 still
have to think out i hk. Butta -
catching on. Apparently, honking.

at cach other i isn ‘tan invitation for

a duel to the death, after all. No

" Sense getting all that adrenalin .

flowing. i /

{/ But when if comes to not break-~-
i ‘ng any speeding laws, these folks:
|/down here play it Straight. They:

are frankly cowed.

“But, then shey have a reason 0
be. eo PLL a
“ In'B.C., the fact i is, there i is no.
serious deterrent to speeding. a

Having.a ‘point’ added to an
invisible record somewhere in the
“belly of a computer just doesn't
sock it {6 us in: ‘any noticeable.
fashion. If the purpose of laws is
Pavlovian response training, this
* one simply doesn't cause enough ,

b temiembered, a!

“tively’ ina each other up.

“In effect. we have a.situation on
t Coast ‘that is kind of: per-|
pel ‘toad madness similar't :
what fias just happened i in France,
’ where ‘drivers, ‘convinced there was *
soon‘ going ta, be a general amnesty,
for traffic ofte Ges, began to'ig-:

groups “that they haven’t got an
independent spirit left...
This might indeed be | h case;

the wallet, not. psychology .

If you go too fast here,, ou get
-fined. It's a stiff fine. It i increase:
according to how’ much over the.
“Speed limit you go...

Thus, it costs actual hard cur-
:tency to speed. And atithe end o
the year, your insurance rates are’

4 ‘jacked up fantastically. ‘So you
keep on paying through the: nose

You'll hate me for saying hi
hit anybody se serious about i

to drive Slowly, aa royal pain. .
And after you’ ve been’ out, ‘of the **

tipping around with relative im:
punity, ttakes, an ef fort: of will t 10.

“aty's Libby. L odge lot.

From page 1 "
The 45-suite, “rétirement home |
leases its, property from, the; pro-
vinicial government.
Trees: removed. were primarily |
mature second-growth ~ hemlock, :

, maple, fir and cedarz) Most! were,

around 6O years ald. .
Landscape architect Philip’ Tat!

| ‘tersfield, who assesécd the damage
.done to the trees and the surroun=

ding environment, said removal of 4h
the second-growth timber exposed
the remaining Wees (6 wind: blow-

- down and would increase. larid cro-

sion duc to rutioff. wd
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“Tattersfield suid over the past 18 |
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