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Not sure that would work. No sign = 50 km/h in Mississauga.

There have been court decisions that deemed driving to be a "near right" - that is, you are entitled to use public highways subject to legislation passed in the interest of public safety (this includes the licensing system). As far as I'm aware, none of those decisions have come from the Supreme Court of Canada and several recent case law I have ...

If this is your first ticket (and it's a minor one), your insurance should not increase.

Windchill has no effect on dry objects with regard to cooling below actual air temperature. -22 is within the recommended operating range.

:D Thanks guys. There was a family health emergency that I had to go help with, then I got pretty busy with Habitat for Humanity and the OPP volunteer work. I ended up on Habitat core crew, working six days a week for them. We also started up a little graffiti project with the city police board where I'm programming a database and mapping program ...

Does the province even send unpaid fines to a collection agency? I would have thought they'd just suspend your licence and wait for you to find them.

A Road Occupancy Permit seems to be a municipal by-law requirement, not provincial. My first search turned up Richmond Hill's requirements. Putting in Caledon got me this:
http://www.town.caledon.on.ca/townhall/departments/publicworks/#_Road_Occupancy_Permit

Book 7 is part of the Ontario Traffic Manual. It doesn't look to be any sort of ...

Where is that congestion from? That may be why the sign is there. If Shaw is becoming congested between 7-9 AM, southbound traffic approaching Dundas essenially only has a single lane; while right-turning vehicles can squeeze past, a car waiting to proceed straight onto Shaw would have to wait there (don't block the box!) and block both straight ...

hwybear wrote:Those spots are for those medically who can not walk great distances OR fire departments to save a life!

Do some cities allow disabled permit holders to park in fire routes, or are you referring to parking tickets in general?

Ouch, I didn't know your hit-and-run was recent. Was this the one on the front bumper?

(Grr, quoting my typo, now I can't fix it.)

Any good tailgaters?

When did you get the Accent? I thought you had a Civic.

HAHAHA I found it

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It is covered by HTA 144(14), "Every driver approaching a traffic control signal showing one or more green arrow indications only or in combination with a circular red or circular amber indication and facing the indication may proceed only to follow the direction shown by the arrow. R.S.O. 1990, c. H.8, s. 144 (14)."

Even without the text, you ...

You should NEVER have more traction in the front than the rear, regardless of where your drive wheels are. Of course, the best solution will be to get four winter tires for the season, then four new, matched tires to replace the worn out summers (all-seasons do not exist in Canada).

??? 80% of the braking and 100% of the steering comes from ...

Same here (not the tow truck driving, but the simple pulls). No unibodies and no all-season tires. Hard to hook up properly to a unibody as I do not carry that J/T/R-hook cluster, and the all-season guys are on their own as far as I'm concerned. Normally I only hook up if there is a clearly accessible attachment point. Only time I might consider ...

Perhaps a very expired fritter?

They might let it go if you have a clear cover, but the optics may be messed up if you have a cover that doubles as the lens to direct light.

Then again, I see too many cars with one headlight pointed into oblivion (i.e., my eyes!), so it may not be a big deal.

"Permit novice driver to drive in contravention of condition or restriction"

"Permit" is a verb in this sentence, not an adjective. "Permit, allow, or enable a novice driver to drive in contravention of condition or restriction."

HTA 32 (11.1)
"No person who is the owner or is in possession or control of a motor vehicle or combination of ...

Can you give us the context? It reads like it should be part of a bigger sentence meaning "Allow novice driver to..."

Are Jake brakes connected to the stop lamps? I've never really paid attention to that detail.

Ooo, tricky. The Escape slows at roughly the same rate when I gear down (turn off O/D) as the Lancer does simply by going completely off the gas, though I would say that neither qualify as "sudden".

Manual transmission cars can engine brake much more effectively, so I guess that should be avoided in traffic. Saves gas in the newer cars though. :D ...

OH I never even checked my new licence. I was going by the old May 26th expiry from my G1/G2, looks like Off_Camber is correct.

You may have the GPS screen visible to you if you are not holding it (e.g., mounted somewhere). If possible, don't mount it on your windshield - it's rare, but you could get a "windshield obstructed" ticket.

rare is an understatement...only hear of that offence once/twice a year, where someone clears an 3" scrape through ice/snow on the ...

My licence doesn't expire on my birthday, I think that is just for the plate stickers. Mine appears to expire on the day I was issued my G1.

You may have the GPS screen visible to you if you are not holding it (e.g., mounted somewhere). If possible, don't mount it on your windshield - it's rare, but you could get a "windshield obstructed" ticket.

Westmount is a tricky road. It's wide and has shoulders, looks like a 70 km/h road, but the limit is only 50 km/h.

Makes sense to me, although I do remember reading that they were told to stop doing that. Being stopped in traffic opens them up to an attack.

A hit-and-run accident with no suspect counts as a claim against your comprehensive coverage and will affect your rates. Any claim where you are ruled 0% at-fault will go under DCPD coverage and does not affect your rate. In RI's case, insurance would have covered under DCPD if he had witnessed the collision, taken down the plate, and filed a ...

I gear down to slow on an incline or when I just want to adjust my speed (e.g., passed a car at 100 km/h and want to slow down to 80 km/h before Bear pops out of the woods). You really can't tell when a car slows down without brake lights? Or are you referring to drivers gearing all the way down to stop for a turn/stoplight? Never seen that before ...

The HTA states that you must stop two metres behind the doors of a streetcar which is "stationary for the purpose of taking on or discharging passengers". An open door is a good indication of that, but I would also argue that a streetcar stopped in front of a TTC streetcar sign is also a good indication that passengers are being let on and let off ...

The question is whether it would be reasonable to assume from the position of the streetcar that it was stopping to pick up or let off passengers, instead of simply waiting for a red light. Most streetcar stops seem to be 1-2 car lengths from the stop line instead of 4-5. It sounds like this streetcar was stopped away from the TTC sign and wanted ...