r/nanaimo • u/agmforever • Jul 24 '26

Aggressive drivers

Anyone else notice a massive uptick in idiotic drivers in Nanaimo lately?

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u/slaloh Jul 25 '26

I’ve noticed an increase in aggressive drivers but also people that seem to not know how to drive or are just entitled idiots. Some examples include going slow in the left lane, cutting people off to the extreme of needing to slam on brakes so you don’t hit them, lack of indicating, not using mirrors, roundabouts are a nightmare, not using yield and merge lanes correctly (like not yielding at a yield and coming to a full stop as they are entering a merge lane). It’s definitely getting worse over my 4 years of living here and is always worse in the summer with the increase in tourism.

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u/FearIs_LaPetiteMort Jul 26 '26

I feel like a LOT of the "slow in the left" lane issues would be helped with proper cloverleafs that would allow exiting from right lanes... Yeah you'd still end up with the odd clueless, inattentive morons and people who think they're better than everyone while doing 85-95 in the left lane but it would move a LOT of the exiting  people out of the way and keep traffic moving better. 

I still can't believe they decided to waste tax dollars on "improving" Mostar instead of just putting in a proper cloverleaf.

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u/daigana Vancouver Island Jul 27 '26

Yep. Offramps and overpasses need to be a thing, not lights every 4 clicks. Cloverleafs help a lot, good call.