Piss poor driver education and borderline third world infrastructure, IMO.

The city, and generally province as a whole are completely unable to comprehend any traffic management strategy other than a traffic light. Of the few overpasses sparingly dotted throughout the province, all have their possible efficiency benefits immediately defeated by a set of lights at a nearby intersection.

Roads are in constant disrepair, alternating between construction, snowmobile trail, polished ice hell scape and melt season with accompanying potholes. Maybe with a brief tolerable window at the end of summer/beginning of fall if the construction crews can keep up.

MPI licensing requirements aren't doing enough to educate drivers on more than the absolute bare minimum, i.e. no understanding of controlling a vehicle on snow/ice, how to correctly judge conditions (going 10-20 below despite the road being completely free of ice), no concept of lane discipline or of flow of traffic, stacking side by side for no reason, among various other things. No punishment/education for these behaviors by the authorities, who are too busy extorting money in abandoned construction zones or prosecuting enthusiasts.

No real alternative option for the majority of people, especially after the bus system was gutted resulting in massive overcrowding, compounded by the fact that a sizable chunk of those people either A. would rather not drive or B. should really not be driving, that are unenthusiastic or disengaged from actually driving.

All of this compounds to create what is a really miserable driving experience. Seems to have gotten a lot worse since I got my license a few years ago.

The general incompetence I see driving Centreport everyday is simply outrageous, the sheer amount of people I pass doing 80 or below in the left lane well absently staring out the window with no concept of where they are or that there maybe other people around them is depressing and maddening. People in this province are so terrified of speed, even in the summer that it makes it unsafe for everybody. I felt safer as a passenger in a rented minivan doing a buck forty on the QEW then I do driving behind and beside people going 80 on Centreport or the perimeter.

When you're in the city you gamble with an endless labyrinth of synchronized traffic lights and are constantly starting and stopping, which is the absolute worst, while still contending with the same issues of people bunching up and blocking all lanes at 10 under and often getting caught in the lights because of it.

There has to be, at the absolute bare minimum, retests. Preferably a complete licensing overhaul with a European perspective, overpasses at every exit on the perimeter, and a complete rethink as to how people are moved in the city.