Bring a track to Toronto!!

[chel]

rec\'d an email tonight from ***enricen.. intresting..


Help bring a track to Toronto and sign this petition! If you don\'t, then the
government will just trample all car enthusiasts, and we won\'t have a place to
call our own.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/torontostreetracing/

however..

\"Too bad no one will listen even if there are 1 million people signing this.\"

heh.. heh..

the related articles are well written too..
interesting read..



Metaphor time:

Prostitutes wear short skirts. That woman is wearing a short skirt.

Therefore, she\'s a prostitute.

Let me get this straight: Mercedes-Benz invents an automatic roll bar that pops up to protect you in a crash.

You can\'t get this technology in a Civic, so at considerable personal expense you install a roll bar in your car, thereby making it safer � and they cancel your insurance?

Also, if some 18-year-old � more likely, Mommy and Daddy � buys a Porsche 911 Turbo, that\'s okay?

But if said 18-year-old buys a Civic and makes it as fast as a 911 Turbo, that isn\'t okay?

Maybe it isn\'t okay.

But, either way, it isn\'t the fault of the machinery.

[SIM SIMMA]

When the city was tired of having kids \"skating\" around on private/public property they eventually built skate parks for them.

Not sure if this would ever happen with cars and the building of a track or a drag strip, but you never know with all the deaths and media it is receiving and the talk of making street racing a criminal offence perhaps they will seriously look into this?

Who knows.

[MaxRPM]

A track in the city will never happen (where could you even build one?) and even if it did, the cost would be prohibitive.

Further more, it won\'t make much of a difference in senseless racing/speed related deaths. I would wager to guess that most of the street races that end up in accidents are random acts IE, one guy bumps into someone on some street and they go at it, This will never stop, track or no track.

Nothing wrong with making street racing a criminal offence, I have no problem with stiffer sentences. What I do have a problem with is the targeting of people with modified cars. Modified cars do not make people do stupid things, stupid people do. These types of people will race anything modified or not.

Anyhow, that\'s my morning rant, time to actually work now...

Edit for bad grammar

[Cardinal Fang]

Originally posted by MaxRPM
Nothing wrong with making street racing a criminal offence. I have no problem with stiffer sentences. What I do have a problem with is the targeting of people with modified cars. Modified cars to make pople do stupid things, stupid people do. These types of people will race anything modified or not.


*Applaudes*

[JMAK74]

Originally posted by MaxRPM

Nothing wrong with making street racing a criminal offence, I have no problem with stiffer sentences. What I do have a problem with is the targeting of people with modified cars. Modified cars do not make people do stupid things, stupid people do. These types of people will race anything modified or not.


+1

Unfortunately, there\'s no requirement of a minimal level of intelligence/grey matter between the ears to get a drivers license, buy a car, mod it and drive it.

The arguement that sounds a brewing amongst the politik is the same as guns - ban the guns, make them illegal, etc cause they kill people.. um, I believe it takes a person to operate the gun - same as a car (regardless if it is modded or not).

Like MaxRPM has said - Harder/Tougher driver requirements to get licensed (in some European countries from what I\'ve heard, to get your drivers license is a real accomplishment because they have very high standards), stiffer penalties (with clarity in the laws - none of this \"at the police officers discretion\" like window tint/mufflers), an attitude toward those that illegally street race that you ruin it for the rest of us - okay, I\'m ranting now...

On a side note to this - the politicians are all jumping on owners of modded Hondas and what not, yet I\'ve expereinced (on a regular basis - like weekly) of the mini-van/SUV racing through traffic, and from what I can tell, it wasn\'t some kid taking his parents ride out - it was daddy/mommy driving (probably behind the wheel saying to him self \"I\'m not old, I\'m not old\"). I guess becuase it\'s a \'family\' vehicle it\'s okay.

JK