Let’s focus on bad driving habits
By Lethbridge Herald on April 10, 2025.
Editor,
Given the recent interest in the Herald with respect to driving habits in Lethbridge. How about a regular column in the paper perhaps in collaboration with Lethbridge Police, focusing in on certain common driving errors. Some might include: which lane to turn into when making a left turn, how to signal into and out of a traffic circle and how to make a left turn instead of a left “curve” which often starts 30 yards before a junction!
Kieran Biggins
Lethbridge
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this is a good idea. that will help ensure those not well versed in the basic rules of the road can get up to speed.
more to the point, it is essential that a successfully completed driver ed course be made mandatory, which must include classroom/theory and a good number of hours road practice ahead of tests that demonstrate knowledge and skill before earning one’s first level if licensing.
First and foremost in multilane areas get up to the speed limit asap. This doddling along at 35 in a 60 is goofy. Know where you are going before you head there. In other “major cities” not getting up to the speed limit will get you run over. We have to convince car manufacturers to install signal lights before they are shipped to Lethbridge.
Agreed, my own partner didn’t know how to signal in a roundabout. Here’s a blast from the past anyone remember the traffic circle on 5th and Stafford drive. They removed it shortly after I started driving.