20 - North Shore Nows - Friday. December 31, 1999

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FE Checx battery, test antifreeze,
, tires & brakes visual inspection fepor” I take a moment to ponder my exis-
tence as a back-page columnist and just as
I get seriously despondent comes this
lovely letter from Fran and Lloyd Jones
of West Vancouver.
Hi Shaun, they write. Our family loves

your columns on the boneheads —~ we've NEWS photo Julie Iverson

‘encountered most of them. . CRAWLERS, take note: on-ramps are also known as acceleration lanes.
‘See? Pm not alone. I feel better Trying to merge with traffic at 50 km/h or stopping dead while merging Is
already. dangerous, driving. .

One column we've been waiting for is

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on the topic of antics on highway on- and

by creating cardinc Srilure, not to mention

ate half a kilometre before the exit stares,

ofFramps... 0. rear-enders, in all the people behind them thereby creating havoc behind them...
~- Rogie or or rear pa or shoes by ceriified _ Intruth, ve covered ithe foible of who were accelerating to blend in with the Not to sound redundant, but I don’ to
guarantee on pads & boneheads on these acceleration and- 9 4 know how to more clearly define a |
: Soe Tot makes deceleration lanes a couple of times, but Yes a DECELERATION lane. Still it happens:
‘ Welt HEATING & Cocina Fran and Lloyd seem to have missed I don’t ow how to more clearly Traffic could move quite smooth and rel
‘Check radiater, hoses, baits, drain & refill those columns, which is fine because’even define an ACCELERATION Iane. _ atively rapidly on grand roadways such as"
cooling system, test antifreeze cond, I don’t read everything I write. 3. The crazies who, unable to get abead’ - the Upper Levels were it not for those .
"pressure check & full report” That said, I think this is the first case af two busy thru-lanes doing 95-100, pull boneheads who can’t get on or off of it~
e THE BEST . of the Joneses not keeping up with me... into. an on-ramp lane and accelerate to use Properly, smoothly and safely. . a
* Finest cordless Hunter computerized front” They continue: Among the idiot behav- it asa basing lanc on the right, and then le it’s ce asad state of ean
_ alignment, by certified technicians, . jours we've encountered, (particularly on cut back into the flow again when they run affiie T Tm secretly glad that boneheads ..
‘produces full before & after report & the Upper Levels) are: out of road. will continue to be boneheads as Til have ©
yo. 1. The brain-dead who crawl up the on- I’ve al maintained that nobody something to write about for two millen-. :
ramp, decelerating all the way until they starts their day by thinking “I guess I'll nia. ie;

ramp only to stop dead at the mouth, there-

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scare the H out of everyone by oozing out
into the 90 km/h flow while doing 50 to 5S.
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4. The ulera-cautions who, when
approaching an off-ramp, start ta deceler--

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