Its the poetic contrast of the open road, open sky, and green pasture framing a One Point Perspective (with a vanishing point centered and siting on the horizon).
Its visual cocaine. Kubrick loved it and shot OPP often.
You have to have a taste for abstract art to appreciate our landscapes.
THanks for that. I should have checked google maps. Here’s a shot of the #1 near Wolsley, where the fellow was stopped.
In northern Ontario, you can find two-lane highways where the limit is 90 km/h. Highway 69 was 90 km/h north to Sudbury from where the 400 ended. That’s changing to 100 as the 400 is being extended. And Highway 17 is 90 km/h for much of its length, except where it goes through towns and cities of course.
But those are the only ones I can think of, though there may be more. Still, you’re correct for southern Ontario, where the top speed on a two-lane highway never exceeds 80 km/h.
International Falls is on the US side. Fort Frances would be the town with the “cheap” gas priced by the litre. In reality, the gas in International Falls would have been cheaper.
I’ve been there myself. Fort Frances is indeed in “the area.”
So I was out today on several 400-series highways and Pearson airport and looked more closely at the signs. The general rule seems to be: no “km/h” indications on city roads and local highways, but generally present on major freeways and at the airport, presumably because lots of furriners. I also saw it on a highway sign where the speed limit abruptly drops from 80 km/h to 50, I guess just to emphasize that they really mean “slow WAY the hell down because you’re about to enter a residential area”. So I guess @Horatius and I were both right, in our own way.
The highway signs here sometimes have a separate km/h sign below the number. Sometimes that is printed on the sign. The examples above show sometimes it isn’t. It is also on those electronic signs sometimes on bridges, and those signs which tell you how much you can be fined and many points it costs for exceeding the speed limit by so and so.
But you are obviously obligated to follow the law even if the units aren’t posted. And it’s not like I could go to random country and drive and assume the local rules do not apply.
I’m slightly curious as to why the police published this. I guess it serves as a broader example, might remind others about units, makes them look munificent and makes Americans look… actually, I have no idea how it makes people look. In Canada, most people go over the speed limit by 10-20% which bothers me not at all in good weather. In snow and ice, many drive too fast (over the limit or safe speeds when slippery or in blowing snow) or too slow (reducing needed general momentum).
I have a Volvo R type. Those buggers are FAST. 90 sneaks up on me. But yeah, 125? The car would let you know.
Here in SoCal, we have some areas where 80 is “keeping up with traffic”, but I get blown past by oversize Pickups all the time. You’d think it’d be Ferrari’s, Fast Hatch, etc, but no, it is big 10mpg pick up trucks. They come screaming up, tailgate for a few minutes, then zoom past. They must be able to actually watch their gas gauge move.
And to pay for those trucks, all other cars must continually be forced to get better and better MPG.
In Sask, last time I went there, most of the signs in French had bullet holes in them (the Sask people notoriously hate bilingualism, as far as French, anyway). Still true?
That sounds unlikely as Saskatchewan wouldn’t have much signage in French, that is, unless it is part of a federal Government institution which in that case, shooting near there would net you a whole lot of trouble if caught.
You probably could get away with shooting out in the wilderness thou.
Yeah, it was out in the boonies.
The Germans bombed if flat? I thought they only bombed Pearl Harbor