Right now 60th Avenue between 176th and 177B Streets is closed for road construction. There are several signs around announcing the closure between September 28 and October 3. (I think! Maybe its the 2nd!) There are plenty of detour signs around too. Basically this has clogged up traffic in both directions on 58th Avenue between those 2 streets. I see a lot of traffic travelling southbound on 176th aka Cloverdale Bypass in the left hand turn lane to turn up 58th Avenue to get around the closure.
Yesterday, Wednesday September 30, I was out at the Honeybee Centre to pick up a free jar of cranberry honey courtesy of a free coupon that came in the mail. I also purchased a jar of raspberry honey while I was there. I'm coming back to Cloverdale on 176th Street coming up to 60th Avenue. I'm in the curb lane because I need to turn right a little ahead. There is a lot of traffic in the left lane. The left hand turn lane from 176th to turn onto 60th Avenue is blocked with pylons. And oddly enough I watch one of the cars in the lane next to me duck between the pylons and get in the left hand turn lane. There are 2 other cars already in the left lane, closer to the intersection. Where do they think they're going to go? 60th Avenue is completely blocked with barricades so no one will drive up there. So now these cars in the left hand turn lane have turned on their right indicators and trying to get back into traffic. There is a huge line of traffic and no one is letting them back in. What are they thinking? That the pylons set up on the left hand turn lane are there for driving practice to weave in and out?
This morning - October 1 - at 8am I was on 188th Street, heading north, and stopped at the traffic light at 64th Avenue. In the oncoming lane across the street from me are vehicles ready to cross the intersection and one truck in the left hand turn lane. Our light turns green. I'm in a newer model Vibe and have good pick up, so away I go but that truck hits the gas, cuts me off, and turns left - east up 64th Avenue. I hit the horn. What a dangerous move, especially when its pouring rain and streets are slick. And get this. He's driving a company truck. I read Fraser River Excavating on the side of the door. I can't figure out why companies allow dangerous drivers to operate their company vehicles that identifies themselves. Talk about bad advertising. Not that I have any reason to use the services of a company that excavates. Can only assume some of their employees are working in the new subdivision areas in Clayton.
When I was returning back to Cloverdale around 8:30 I was headed down 64th Avenue. There is a steep hill between 181A and 180th Streets. Between 7am and 9am on weekdays there is a sign stating no left turns onto 180th Street. And sure enough there is a car with its left turn indicator flashing wanting to turn left on 180th and all the cars on 64th were ducking around it on the shoulder. By the time I got there he'd got a break in traffic and made his turn.
Yup, this town is becoming a haven for bad drivers.
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