I'm going to need your home country for comparison - I find what you're saying here sounds a lot more like California (where I live now) than Australia.
I learned how to drive in Stockholm, which isn't great either, but doesn't get close to Australia.
By all means I think Vancouver and California drivers suck too :P I used to work in Vancouver CBD and witnessed several accidents people get hit by cars on the corner Robson Hornby. The city never did anything about it, it was just accepted as a fact of daily life.
EDIT a quick Google reveals people, including infants, are still getting hit and killed on the corner Robson Hornby, and it doesn't look like there's been any traffic calming or bollards or fencing or anything added to keep pedestrians safe. (people aren't just getting hit when crossing the intersection, they're getting hit by cars coming up on the sidewalks etc, it's crazy)
bedobi|4 years ago
By all means I think Vancouver and California drivers suck too :P I used to work in Vancouver CBD and witnessed several accidents people get hit by cars on the corner Robson Hornby. The city never did anything about it, it was just accepted as a fact of daily life.
EDIT a quick Google reveals people, including infants, are still getting hit and killed on the corner Robson Hornby, and it doesn't look like there's been any traffic calming or bollards or fencing or anything added to keep pedestrians safe. (people aren't just getting hit when crossing the intersection, they're getting hit by cars coming up on the sidewalks etc, it's crazy)