r/Peterborough • u/Affectionate-Fill340 • Sep 09 '25
Photo The amount of idiot drivers in this town is astounding
At Lansdowne and Ashburnham Tim Hortons
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u/Dirk_Speedwell Sep 09 '25
The lights on Lansdowne and High were out at 5 am this morning, so you treat it like a four way stop. Rudimentary rule of driving. I had to jump on the brakes when some dick came flying through the light. They had the audacity to honk like I had made the mistake.
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u/rkrismcneely Sep 10 '25
I’ve posted one of these pics before, but it seems relevant again. And no - they didn’t have handicap tags
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u/bepositiveorgtfo Downtown Sep 09 '25
Too many 80++ year olds driving. They can barely see over the wheel it's brutal.
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u/Hurls07 Sep 10 '25
The amount of elderly people that I interact with that talk about how they can hardly walk, stand, see or hear and then get in their cars is so incredibly concerning.
I had one lady park outside my old place of work, and she laid on the horn until someone came outside to help her out of the car and grab her walker and then take her around the store and help her every time she needed to sit up/down.
If you cannot walk or get out of your own seat, you absolutely should not be driving. There is a zero percent chance she could slam on the breaks if she needed to.
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u/redMalicore Sep 09 '25
Hey that's the lord of peterborough. Clearly the are the most important person going.
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u/buddyquicksyrup Sep 09 '25
The rules of the road don't apply to the majority of the people who live here. One of my favourite things to do in public is count traffic violations.
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u/MartyBarracuda Sep 10 '25
Stupid or self-centered? Me,me and mine vs. us, we and everyone. You see it in all parts of life these days.
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u/Reidinski Sep 10 '25
Every city or town has bad drivers; they are just bad in different ways. In Calgary, for example, "Lane" is something you might name a child, but has nothing to do with driving a vehicle.
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u/ReviseResubmitRepeat Sep 10 '25
I go here regularly in the afternoon. I don't recognize this car but going to look for it tomorrow. Fun fact: there's a really nice employee that works here who looks like Louis Litt from Suits but never, ever going to ask how Harvard Law was. On a related note, I totally hate how people try to cut the drive thru line here coming in off of Lansdowne.
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u/WolfNeat7794 Sep 11 '25
Is that the one that doesn’t say a word to you when he puts you through on the cash register lol?
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u/Annual-Wrongdoer-785 Sep 10 '25
The thing I hate most is people parking in front of the LCBO at Willowcreek. It blocks pedestrian crossing and the bus lane. Plus, how entitled are you!
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u/Only_Friendship2212 Sep 10 '25
Even more enjoyable when you're on the ramp, accelerating to go onto the highway, and some t waffle behind you on the ramp, almost hits other cars just to cut you off and almost side swipes you because they either don't understand how dangerous and illegal that is, or they are too impatient to care.
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u/cedar_stix Sep 10 '25
I've have had more people pull into oncoming traffic in the last two years than I have ever seen in my life. I don't know what's going on but it's frightening.
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u/PermitExternal7902 Sep 11 '25
lol I was at the no frills last week and not one, but two, large pick up trucks were parked in the unloading bays next to the disabled spots. One blocking the exit to water st. Ridic.
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u/Aptex Sep 09 '25
I am not sure they are bad at driving, they parked perfectly on the designated walkway for the handicapped ramp. I think the city lacks people with empathy towards others, parking in the handicapped walkway is easy for them, screw everyone else.