BEING a born and
raised Vancouverity, I
really enjoyed tnat tor-
rential downpour fast

weekend.

But more than the rer that
buckets of min means a beau
titul and green BAC. its fin
to drive im, Okay, not se much
fun as interesting.

At any rate, Po was out dit
ving in that deluge, saw plenty
of drivers absolutely con
founded by the cats and dogs
falling from the sky, and for
mulated about halt a dozen
synopsises for this here tratfic
column, (Tough gig, buh?)

When it is both dark and
wet, lane dividing fines, both

darn near impossible. Or so I
noticed,

For example, Marine Drive

trom Weat Van's Dundarave
to North Van's Third Street is
at least four lanes wide. fn
order to accommmadate curb
side parking stalls, lett tarn
pockets and such, these lanes

Drnors are supposed te stay
borsoen the exo thes
spas hanes
Bisak as tt was dest
many drivers were made:
tenth straightening die st
Penne POS a ad barrehns
through the hither and dither
Whe an arraw on its way tet
target. Chis simply will nor do,
tolks

While diving through the
main do abe took the apporcura
ty to contin what Pye preey
much always known: The fines
on the read do not really dis
appears theyre just dithicult to
see. But nor impossible.

Good thing our eyesight is
tested before we're given a
driver's licence. But why, then,

Fuday. Nuvember 2

trat
On El spht
Jew en
hanes

tts w the ‘
the waar more

Others were raking the
simpler er mars sinple
minded - approach. Thats
to say, phew were following the
war ain front or nica
tnfortunately, the dren er in
front of them was often yust as
oblivious to road markings
which only compounded the
meandering hazard.

Look if your going to play
follow the leader, go big _
follow a bus, Bus drivers know

SCNT Op} Xue

ab trucattave While

are certain
ehsonmt th

thes in tte

a and we've all noticed

cabs meandenag trom Laie io

fine on even the brightest,

clearest, sinniest of days

proudhy gutomizing “road

hog” behaviour.

Sate bets Following tax,
had. Whar else ts there to de?
Here's a tip: Slow down,

As T discovered. road Tinies
de not dissoive in che rain,
they merely became fess obvi-
ous, While the best and satest

asdiats

a sr thatveu
lookeng tora hing and net
wee py CHT

Teast me. ihe lines are
there Pyvescen em and
drremg a hide slower gives
Vou more UWintie Te sce ‘them

One nraig piece of ads
Avond driving parallel to any
body. Even if vou are conti
dent about vour road position,
the driver beside vou may not
be. base off the throtthe a bit
and keep a sate, paced dis-
tance. Or, W vau're realy con-
tident, speed up a bit and keep
vour left and/or right side
vaid of waffic whenever passi-
ble. Having a straight shooter
beside vou on a sik aky stretch

Marine Drive by rote and car

were so many drivers rolling
drive it in their sleep. (Marbe

all about with apparent disre-

lazily meander to and tro,
hither and dither and yon.

yellow and white, become dif

ficult to sce at times, if not of road is nota xood thing.

There’s a few more rainy
days ty come, folks. Stay the
course. Stay henween the wet
lines. Be sate.

drivers use sight lines “aimed
high” or far down the street,
there is nothing wrong with
taking a quick g glance down
and te your fett for right, .

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