Came across some lane markings that just don't make sense.
Out in the Surrey, Langley area, there are several intersections where there are two lanes, same direction, get to a busy intersection and the right lane is right turn only and the inside lane becomes a straight thru and left hand turn lane combined. Just doesn't make sense traffic wise IMHO. As soon as one vehicle wants to turn left, the traffic backs up behind it as the traffic from the opposite direction goes through the intersection, while the right hand turn lane is empty. Wouldn't it make more sense for the right lane to be straight thru/right hand turn. Both of these were in areas where there is very little pedestrian traffic, so only the occasional time a vehicle would have to wait for a pedestrian.
Would depend on the volume of traffic turning left versus right.
If there's enough traffic turning right, it would make sense to have a right only lane because vehicles would be able to turn right on red in your jurisdiction, and thus not hold up right turn traffic regardless of red or green and add to the queue. Left and straight traffic must wait for the green regardless so it may be better to hold up just one lane, instead of both.
And then there's the obvious: the road retains 2 lanes in the direction of travel after the intersection, right ?
The fact that my FILs POS Journey needed spark plugs at 50k kms....
Wow..really?
In the manual and everything. Yeah it was cheap and took 10 min, but come on, I thought that spark plugs are 150k km on your run of the mill commuter toaster.
For a bunch of VW Group vehicles, the plugs are due at 100k- had to remind my father they were overdue on his Tiguan (110k)
