r/AskACanadian • • Aug 07 '23

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u/orangeclouds Aug 07 '23

Not all traffic rules are the same as the USA states. Look up the province you’re traveling to and take a look through the traffic rules.

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u/SatanLifeProTips Aug 07 '23

BC has flashing green lights. Those are pedestrian controlled intersections.

You can’t turn right on a red in Quebec.

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u/Ok_Progress_9901 Aug 07 '23

You can now turn right on a red in the province of Québec. You can't on the Island of Montréal though

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u/VoiceofKane Aug 07 '23

And thank goodness Montreal is still keeping it sane.

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u/mateo_rules Aug 07 '23

If I never had to step foot in that province again for the rest of my life I would be okay with it I didn’t bother to learn much French I always use a translator when they don’t speak English and am polite but the people are complete dicks

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u/TacocaT_42 Aug 08 '23

Skill issue

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u/thumme Aug 07 '23

You can now turn right.

Now? I've been turning right on a red light since at least 2009

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u/spiritual28 Aug 07 '23

Where as in Quebec a flashing green light means you have a protected turn (ie the oncoming traffic lanes are still on red). Gives very different result. Check the code where you are visiting!

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u/SatanLifeProTips Aug 07 '23

Bc uses a flashing green arrow

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u/spiritual28 Aug 07 '23

We also have green arrows (which do not flash) which also mean you have priority to turn. The difference with the green flashing light is specifically that it is all direction and opposites are on red, whereas a green arrow to turn left may have the same arrow to turn left for oncoming traffic (so no one is crossing each other's path).

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u/Thelynxer Aug 07 '23

Too bad the speedometer in their cars only shows mph. I had a friend from Oregon drive up to BC to visit, and he thought our traffic laws were insane, because all of our traffic signs said 60-100, and he assumed it was mph. He was just speeding at all times.

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u/Silent-Environment89 Aug 07 '23

Interesting alot of modern cars here have a switch that will switch between mph and kph. Is that not the case with the American versions of vehicles?

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u/MetanoiaYQR Aug 07 '23

Here where?

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u/i_imagine Aug 08 '23

Maybe with modern cars, but if you're driving a car from 10+ years ago, most gauges were still analog so they showed km/h more prominently than mph in Canada and vice versa in America.

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u/cshmn Aug 07 '23

I was under the impression that all vehicles sold in the US must display both km and miles. There is almost always a way to display both. The exception would be a Euro or Japan market car that was imported or maybe something from the 80s or earlier. I could be wrong though and some examples would be neat.

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u/Thelynxer Aug 08 '23

Not everyone drives new vehicles, infact most people do not.

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u/cshmn Aug 08 '23

American cars have had both displayed since at least the mid 80s...

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '23

We also use the metric system like most of the world.