From previeus page

here. I have been a student
of the complexities of the
MVA for a tong time (too
long, methinks) and one
thing I have come to appre-
ciate is that in its wordiness,
the mighty MVA covers all
the angles and, until recent-
ly, it_ never contradicted
itself.

The new “yield to bus”
law was one of the first note-
worthy paradoxical MVA
revisions which is somehow
forgivabic as it sets itself to
blame EVERYBODY rather
than one driver over another.

This “inoperative traffic
light” law, on the other
hand, simply favours insani-

Everywhere else in the
mighty Act the duties and
responsibilities of a driver
who is required to “stop”
also embodies when that dri-
ver may proceed, notwith-
standing this and unicss-oth-
erwise that. _

“Stop” on its own means
drivers have no rights over
any ways, peried.

. _. Yielding the right of way
is as pure and simple an
action as it sounds in the
mighty Act and the action is
discerningly NOT associated
with the word “stop,”
least not in the context we
are now faced with by this
new amendment.

So to sum up the amend-
ment, it is clear that when
and if I approach an inter-
section where the traffic
lights are inoperative I must
stop before entering the
intersection.

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Fair enough. Ne word on
when or how IT may proceed.
Again, I'm not being face-
tious here, { know the prop-
er course of action scems
obvious but the reason we
have a Motor Vehicle Act in
the first place is to make
definitive and absolute what

is plain and clear for all dsi- endeavour.)

vers, Doesn't matter, they’ve

Furthermore, if another
driver and myself approach
this same intersection and
stop in accordance with the
new law, we assume we can
proceed but one of us is not
allowed ta T-bone the other,
ic. one of us must “stop and
yield” a second time.

It would have been more
clear if this subsection(2)
merely said “yield” (rather
than stop and yield), which
it already has and in com-
plete disregard of the fact
that i it has already told us to

“stop” in subsection(1).

And the final foible of the
farcical law is the fact that it
does not really change a
thing as far as inoperative
traffic lights are concerned.

While it tries to re-define
the “courtesy stop” proce-
dure, it does not seem aware
that such a procedure is ficti-
tious in the first place.

And whoever wrote this
law does not seem cognizant
of the fact that a traffic
light-controlled intersection
is usually associated with a
high volume of traffic where .
not just two cars arrive at
approximately the same
time, but swarms of cars
arrive constantly and end-
lessly and from ‘each and

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What good is a “yicld to
the car on the righe” law if
cach and every driver has a
car on his or her right?

What if it’s a multi-laned
intersection and there are
three cars on the right? (To
try and legally define a
“courtesy stop”

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all been told to “stop” at
any rate and it is never clear
when they can proceed in
the first place.

As I am not psychic, J
have no idea when this new
amendment will be amend-
ed.

So, like [ said in my pre-
revision column of Nov 19:
“Just place your faith in the

Friday, December 10, 1899 — North Shore News - 53

Eye in The Sky and hope
your fellow drivers know this
so-called ‘four-way-stop”
procedure or are listening to
another station.

Drink Labbatt Bluc.”

T suppose J can modify
that somewhat with this sage
addendum of my own:

If you approach an inter-
section where the traffic

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blame everybody

lights are inoperative stop
the car and go have lunch.

After all, you are yielding
to the car on the right which
is busy yielding to the car on
the right which is likewise
yielding to the car on the
right which, as it turns out,
is ‘yielding to you. I recom-
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