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Windsor/Chebucto Intersection
2 reviews for Windsor/Chebucto Intersection
2 reviews in English
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Review from Laurie M.
5/7/2012 7 Check-ins Here
A strange and confusing little intersection I've frequented for over 30 years. If you've never driven through it yet, you'll definitely learn quickly that you need to pay attention. The wonky little zig-zag manoeuvre you have to do when heading along Cunard/Chebucto will have you scratching your head for at least a couple of days. Zipping through it along Windsor can be a bit of headache during rush hour. Many a driver has been stranded in the middle of the intersection because pedestrians refuse to let you continue through even though you were in the intersection on a yellow light. If you're too slow going through, watch out for the people.
On the upside, if you're not doing anything else, just hang out and watch everyone else navigate it for a while. You're bound to see something happen. -
Review from Ben B.
4/14/2011 2 photos
Look, I didn't go to university on the peninsula, I never lived further away from the downtown core than South Park Street, and I always made SMU and Dal friends come to me because lord knows it was THEIR choice to go to school where they did. As a result, driving anywhere beyond the main downtown areas has been an adventure I've only recently been introduced to including the general cluster-effery that is navigating through the masses of confused drivers who plummet into the depths of despair when faced with the Windsor/Chebucto intersection.
I get it...as far as intersections go, this one was clearly dreamed up after a couple of Jagerbombs and maybe even a bong hit or two, but c'mon people, we're all smart, intelligent, capable human beings who should be able to adapt the rules of the road to overcome adversity. Yes-typically when you're turning across traffic, you cross in front of those turning from the opposite direction. But when the road you're turning onto is well beyond where the opportunity to cross actually strikes, just drive straight a little further and sort out your business there. And if you don't think you can handle that, well try just going straight and taking the next, perfectly reasonable left-hand turn.
Whatever you do, DON'T freeze in the middle of everything, hyperventilating into a paper bag while hipster pedestrians judge you from behind their wide-framed vanity spectacles. Screwing up the flow of traffic is only ironic if you do so on one of those bikes with the massive front wheel and the teeny back wheel.Listed in: North Enders
