On Monday I had the pleasure of sitting in my car for about 2 hours waiting for traffic to move. This is usually a 12 minute drive, and needless to say I was pretty peeved about getting to SFU at around 10:00 when I left close to 8:00. What was the problem? It seems that as soon as a little snow hits Vancouver, everybody turns into complete wimps when it comes to driving. Now, I would rather have this than have everybody drive really fast and have lots of accidents, but please – the way to go down a small hill when its snowy is to go down it!!! Don’t linger at the top wondering wondering if its a good idea. I target this at the guy driving the huge Winnebago who wanted to do a uturn, and not having enough room for this, chose to just sit there.
Another thing is that while SFU did an admirable job in keeping their roads clear on the mountain, Burnaby is responsible for everything until 3/4 of the way up. This means, if you aren’t familiar with driving to SFU in the winter, that the first 3/4 of the mountain road receives no attention at all from sand/salt/plowing. Needless to say, this really sucks when you are trying to get to class on time, or when you are one of the approximately 70 people trapped on the crappy articulated buses that Translink chooses to run up snowy mountains. These things cannot do the job when its snowy.
Looks like we are going to have about 10-12 centimeters of snow overnight. This normally wouldn’t bother me, but with Monday as my prevailing memory of driving in the snow with idiots, I’m not looking forward to my 8:30 in the morning class.