Re: Another 4x4 wank tank kills two

[abacus]

"David Z" <dave@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> "John McKenzie" <jmac@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
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>> David Z wrote:
>>>
>>> > Sorry David but I don't drive a 4x4.
>>>
>>> Good, then you're more likely to be killed if hit by one.
>>
>> maybe by someone passing a tram on the wrong side :)
>
> In retrospect that may have been a not too smart thing to do, but tram
> drivers do equally, if not more, stupid things. For example, today I was
> sitting at an intersection waiting to turn right, and about 1 second
> before the lights turned red (and at which point I would have turned),
> this super-long new white tram on the opposite side of the road decided to
> proceed through the
> intersection, which left me stranded in the middle for a great deal of
> time
> after the light had turned red. The traffic going the other way had
> already
> started, in fact. So I basically had to try to turn into moving traffic!
> Crazy.
>

I really shouldn't let brain dead trolls get to me.
But......
If your story were true, you'd be turning with the traffic coming from your
left side, which also would have to be stopped (not moving) by the prescence
of said super-long new white tram.

abacus.

[David Z]

"abacus" <abacus61@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "David Z" <dave@bigpond.com> wrote in message
> news:36_jd.30014$K7.19327@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>> "John McKenzie" <jmac@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
>> news:41318AF0.7F45@alphalink.com.au...
>>> David Z wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Sorry David but I don't drive a 4x4.
>>>>
>>>> Good, then you're more likely to be killed if hit by one.
>>>
>>> maybe by someone passing a tram on the wrong side :)
>>
>> In retrospect that may have been a not too smart thing to do, but tram
>> drivers do equally, if not more, stupid things. For example, today I was
>> sitting at an intersection waiting to turn right, and about 1 second
>> before the lights turned red (and at which point I would have turned),
>> this super-long new white tram on the opposite side of the road decided
>> to proceed through the
>> intersection, which left me stranded in the middle for a great deal of
>> time
>> after the light had turned red. The traffic going the other way had
>> already
>> started, in fact. So I basically had to try to turn into moving traffic!
>> Crazy.
>>
>
> I really shouldn't let brain dead trolls get to me.
> But......
> If your story were true, you'd be turning with the traffic coming from
> your left side, which also would have to be stopped (not moving) by the
> prescence of said super-long new white tram.

Yes, thats true, *until* it had cleared enough of the intersection for there
to be room for one lane to start moving, then the next... which meant I
was lucky last.

The driver of such a long tram (or any tram really) should not have
attempted to cross the intersection, knowing that he had about 1 second
until the lights changed, yet it would in fact take him about 15 seconds to
fully cross the intersection.