Duncan is not the easiest place to get around in, especially if you want to get onto Canada avenue from Government or Jubilee.
Canada has become a major artery to get to the highway and several shopping centres. Canada and Government is a disaster so I like to avoid that light.
A really great way to get onto Canada is from Ingram Street since the light there changes often and the intersection is not all crazy like the one further down.
So some bright light in city hall has decided to block this street on Saturdays, the only actually safe way to make a left on to Canada. Why, in a town with a myriad of one way streets, would one do a such a thing?
Finding Ingram blocked I proceeded to Third from Jubilee and waited at Third and Canada to make a left turn. An ambulance was wailing down Canada and I saw there was a space for me to get in behind the ambulance.
Now the trouble with ambulances in full song is that there are lights flashing everywhere.
When an ambulance driver is going to make a left turn in front of you he should also stick his arm out the window. One just does not see a turn signal flashing for a left turn when there is a cacophony of lights emitting from the vehicle.
I stopped my wee Miata in time, gave an apologetic double open hands while he did an exasperated eye roll as he went by.
It was not really my fault, what with lights flashing everywhere, it was the street market’s fault. If I had been squished by a four-ton ambulance it would have been on their conscience (unknowingly of course) and on the Duncan council’s.
Jeremy Barnes
Chemainus
