Rory
10-04-03, - 12:13 AM
---- Just a few things that make driving in nassau a nightmare -------
So who is in charge of the white lines on the road?
It makes sense to have lines on a road so at night where the lights do not shine clearly, and even in rain, we can use the lines to keep us from hitting the sidewalks or curbs, or running into other cars! It is common sense, and who ever is in charge of this either has no common sense, or is lazy and needs to be fired!
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And who is incharge of fixing the potholes, or bumps, on these tracks that we call roads?
Its pathetic, the conditions of these roads. I am forced to drive a car right now, and it gets beaten up to threads driving down these roads around here. You just wait for the muffler to fall off or tire to spin off or something else to break. The people in charge of this need to be arrested (or beaten with the cat & nine tails?) for failure to use the money alotted to them for its correct purpose, (and fired) , we may as just have pea rock tracks, they would be less bumpy and at least we wouldnt be folling ourselves that we think we have PAVED roads in Nassau!!
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Who designs the speed bumps that are outragiously high around nassau?
Again driving a car, my muffler and underbody scrapes these *speed bumps all the time. Yes alot are in private areas such as Harbour Bay or Marathon Mall, but there are other areas in nassau also. There should be restrictions to the height of these even in so called private areas, as with Marothon Mall the public must access it. They are built too high, and too thin. Even if they were wider its not neccassary to have a mountain of a bump. I used to love it in my jeep, Id just ramp them, and laugh, but driving a car, comeon, its pathetic that these people who make the speed bumps arent locked up for damage to vehicles. Id like to find one of them and give them a piece of my mind. Exactly what is speed anyway?
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Who makes the speed limits?
What is 15, 25 and 30mph? IN certain areas sure, like Bay Street, School Zones, but elsewhere, its a joke and just plain DUMB. To say you get a ticket for speeding when you are doing 16mph, 1 mph over the 15mph speed limit at cable beach, another joke. Make it pedestrian only if you don want people to DRIVE there. It just makes the gov and traffic police to be idiots. Give me a break, 40mph is a normal and descent speed. No wonder nothing gets done in this country and or takes forever to get done, everyone driving around at 20-30 mph! Its just like how people walk here, slow slow slow. The people who make these idiotic speed limits need to realise we are not living in the horse and cariage days, and we have motorised vehicles now. If i wanted to do 20mph id ride a bike and save on gas!!!!!
AS for the pedestrian crossings on the Cable Beach Strip, whos DUMB idea was that. If you want people to notice the pedestrians then install a proper crossing with a traffic light, otherwise the crossing is useless as either people dont stop, cant stop in time, or c ant see to stop because the great driving ability of the Jitney drivers who stop on the corssings to let people on or off - oh yeah and those jitney drivers should be relicensed and to get a jitney licence there should be strict training, otherwise GET them out of here!!
---- Just a few things that make driving in nassau a nightmare -------
So who is in charge of the white lines on the road?
It makes sense to have lines on a road so at night where the lights do not shine clearly, and even in rain, we can use the lines to keep us from hitting the sidewalks or curbs, or running into other cars! It is common sense, and who ever is in charge of this either has no common sense, or is lazy and needs to be fired!
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And who is incharge of fixing the potholes, or bumps, on these tracks that we call roads?
Its pathetic, the conditions of these roads. I am forced to drive a car right now, and it gets beaten up to threads driving down these roads around here. You just wait for the muffler to fall off or tire to spin off or something else to break. The people in charge of this need to be arrested (or beaten with the cat & nine tails?) for failure to use the money alotted to them for its correct purpose, (and fired) , we may as just have pea rock tracks, they would be less bumpy and at least we wouldnt be folling ourselves that we think we have PAVED roads in Nassau!!
--------------
Who designs the speed bumps that are outragiously high around nassau?
Again driving a car, my muffler and underbody scrapes these *speed bumps all the time. Yes alot are in private areas such as Harbour Bay or Marathon Mall, but there are other areas in nassau also. There should be restrictions to the height of these even in so called private areas, as with Marothon Mall the public must access it. They are built too high, and too thin. Even if they were wider its not neccassary to have a mountain of a bump. I used to love it in my jeep, Id just ramp them, and laugh, but driving a car, comeon, its pathetic that these people who make the speed bumps arent locked up for damage to vehicles. Id like to find one of them and give them a piece of my mind. Exactly what is speed anyway?
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Who makes the speed limits?
What is 15, 25 and 30mph? IN certain areas sure, like Bay Street, School Zones, but elsewhere, its a joke and just plain DUMB. To say you get a ticket for speeding when you are doing 16mph, 1 mph over the 15mph speed limit at cable beach, another joke. Make it pedestrian only if you don want people to DRIVE there. It just makes the gov and traffic police to be idiots. Give me a break, 40mph is a normal and descent speed. No wonder nothing gets done in this country and or takes forever to get done, everyone driving around at 20-30 mph! Its just like how people walk here, slow slow slow. The people who make these idiotic speed limits need to realise we are not living in the horse and cariage days, and we have motorised vehicles now. If i wanted to do 20mph id ride a bike and save on gas!!!!!
AS for the pedestrian crossings on the Cable Beach Strip, whos DUMB idea was that. If you want people to notice the pedestrians then install a proper crossing with a traffic light, otherwise the crossing is useless as either people dont stop, cant stop in time, or c ant see to stop because the great driving ability of the Jitney drivers who stop on the corssings to let people on or off - oh yeah and those jitney drivers should be relicensed and to get a jitney licence there should be strict training, otherwise GET them out of here!!
---- Just a few things that make driving in nassau a nightmare -------