Nothing to do with the ongoing events in Ottawa
Last night I saw a first: not only had one line of traffic on Queen entered into the Queen and Charles intersection and then had to stop in the intersection when the light at Queen and Joseph turned red but the opposing line of traffic did the same thing and got stopped in the intersection when the light at Queen and King turned red. This made them doubly effective at blocking the flow of traffic up and down Charles Street when the Charles Street drivers got the green at Queen and Charles.

The local cops could finance their pension plan simply by posting someone with a ticket book at Queen and Charles in the late afternoon.

That stretch once saw the slowest hit and run ever, where the interval between the cars colliding and the errant driver leaping into their car to race away was long enough for them to have got out of their car, exchanged names, phone numbers, addresses and insurance info with the other people and then panicked when a passenger said their neck hurt. I do not believe it was a particularly effective hit and run as evading responsibility went. As I recall, one of the people who reads this LJ was a direct witness to that event.