http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: good driving - Recent Posts en Mon, 18 May 2026 02:33:24 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=10#post-339254 Thu, 22 Oct 2020 12:25:24 +0000 gembo 339254@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Excellent lorry behind me, Thistle Timbers, waited til absolutely clear before overtaking on harlaw road, chererful driver was then given instructions on where his delivery of timber was going, way over a high garden wall. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=10#post-315055 Wed, 02 Oct 2019 09:31:23 +0000 acsimpson 315055@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>People like that have never learnt to drive. Once upon a time they learnt to pass a short practical test whose results can often be based on the chance of not coming upon an unfamiliar situation. However they have almost certainly forgotten most of what that test involved. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-315012 Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:31:34 +0000 gembo 315012@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Snowy - there is no learning </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-315008 Mon, 30 Sep 2019 16:42:25 +0000 Snowy 315008@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I wonder if these people learn from these experiences? Does a close call like that lead to them questioning their own driving? Or do they continually just think, "that was that cyclist's fault". </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-314974 Sun, 29 Sep 2019 19:48:40 +0000 Greenroofer 314974@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>To the driver of the enormous articulated lorry with three axles on the tractor unit and four axles on the trailer coming towards me yesterday, thank you.</p> <p>From me, partly, but mainly from the driver of the SUV who had overtaken me on a blind corner and who, if you'd not slammed on your brakes, would have embedded themselves in your radiator. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-313048 Mon, 26 Aug 2019 11:39:41 +0000 CycleAlex 313048@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>People must be in a good mood today with the bank holiday, used an advisory lane in Aberdeen and everyone passed safely with plenty giving me loads of room going into the other lane. </p> <p>Makes for a nice change! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-312956 Fri, 23 Aug 2019 12:39:18 +0000 davecykl 312956@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Cycling to work this morning on a wide stretch of road which has a reasonably wide cycle lane and a general traffic lane each way, having built up a bit of speed on the downhill towards a traffic light junction which, given the traffic light phasing of the previous junction, and typical cycling speed, often (annoyingly) turns red just before you get there (Causewayside / Mayfield Road).</p> <p>I couldn't work out why there were several cars just behind me but making absolutely no attempt to pass, even though the general traffic lane was otherwise empty alongside and ahead of me.</p> <p>Then it dawned on me that having managed to get through the junction without stopping, I must have maintained momentum and be travelling around 20 mi/h (the speed limit for the street, of course)… :D </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-312948 Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:37:36 +0000 CycleCommute.CC 312948@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@IanE, it's always nice when they do that, but very few actually do. I'd guess at 10% when I move over. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-312947 Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:28:37 +0000 IanE 312947@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I wouldn't say it's good driving as such, but I always appreciate any show of thanks I get from drivers when I take the opportunity to pull in to let any tailbacks pass (Burnshot Road, they always seem to catch me at the Carmel Chicane).</p> <p>I go out of my way to do it now for the warm fuzzy feeling of even one set of 'gratitude hazards' as they go past. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-312835 Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:51:45 +0000 Cyclingmollie 312835@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ed1 Most drivers are fine. In future I might describe bad drivers as "the only bad driver I've seen all day" rather than "the worst driver I've seen all day". The former puts them in a group of one and maybe drivers like to conform so that's going to feel worse than the latter which might include every driver I've encountered that day, in which case they're just one of the pack. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-312825 Wed, 21 Aug 2019 14:16:03 +0000 Ed1 312825@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It may be that good driving is normal so don’t think about it much, just the rare instants of bad driving </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-312790 Tue, 20 Aug 2019 20:53:55 +0000 Arellcat 312790@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>One has to wonder if there hasn't been <em>any</em> noteworthy good driving for six months…</p> <p>I experienced today an extended amount of what <em>ought</em> to be completely normal right-thinking good driving, but was good driving only because all the drivers were dead scared.</p> <p>I was cycling home on the Elephant Bike, which is not normally a scary bike, but is when outfitted with a 48" long bright yellow metal spirit level tied down crosswise on the front basket. It was hilarious just how much space I was given, from <em>every single driver</em>, between Travis Perkins and home.</p> <p>What it shows though is that drivers are, by default, lazy, risk-taking chancers. Only by making oneself BIG, presenting the driver with the strong likelihood of sustaining damage to their beloved horseless carriage lest they <strike>inadvertently</strike> casually get too close, is it possible to alter the power balance on the Queen's highway in faviour of the vulnerable. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-301627 Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:45:00 +0000 Frenchy 301627@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Took primary at a pinch point going up Old Dalkeith Road the other day. The driver behind waited patiently behind, then overtook when it was clear. Then <em>they</em> gave <em>me</em> a thank you wave. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-287252 Thu, 19 Jul 2018 20:36:44 +0000 Frenchy 287252@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Normally several drivers will overtake me in the 20mph section of Peffermill Road/Niddrie Mains Road, even if I'm exceeding the speed limit myself. But none tonight. The driver behind kept an <em>enormous</em> gap all the way, then rolled down his window when we were stopped at traffic lights and said something that I didn't catch, but which I'm sure was friendly. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-286252 Tue, 03 Jul 2018 11:23:51 +0000 algo 286252@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Going north up South Clerk street about to turn left down Hope Park Terrace. The usual mêlée of buses indicating to go into the bus stop and some indicating to leave, some shunting forward etc.... everyone stationary and I'm in the bus lane and make the judgement to decide to filter to a place nearer the front I can see and am confident I can get to. The vehicle in front is a skip lorry indicating left - I do not filter past the skip lorry. He sees me and pulls a bit further right and anticipates that I might try and go up the inside. I don't and give him the thumbs up which he returns and continues on his left turn. It would have been madness for me to go up the inside, but I was very appreciative that he was anticipating such potential madness. Unfortunately, I couldn't work out what the company was. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-285999 Fri, 29 Jun 2018 14:47:31 +0000 acsimpson 285999@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<em>I wonder in these situations if they are a cyclist themselves...</em>"</p> <p>Or perhaps someone who wishes they could cycle if only their were not intimidating idiots like this. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-285966 Fri, 29 Jun 2018 10:56:45 +0000 algo 285966@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@urchaidh - always pleasant when someone offsets the idiots. I wonder in these situations if they are a cyclist themselves... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-285965 Fri, 29 Jun 2018 10:53:34 +0000 urchaidh 285965@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The driver on Leith Walk who kept an <a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=3748&amp;page=264#post-285964">aggressive concrete truck driver</a> safely away from me. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-285823 Tue, 26 Jun 2018 19:33:57 +0000 the canuck 285823@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>the bus driver who blocked up the roundabout at Picardy place so i could get out of Leith street and into the lane to turn onto Broughton st. I'd been stuck there for so long, was starting to wonder if i was going to have to order food delivery... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-285669 Sun, 24 Jun 2018 11:48:03 +0000 Greenroofer 285669@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yesterday morning, the driver behind me on the bridge in Lasswade, who stopped without running over my rack pack when it fell off the bike into the middle of the road, then remained stopped and held up the traffic until I'd parked my bike and sheepishly scurried back to pick up the bag. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-285549 Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:41:33 +0000 jdanielp 285549@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The driver in the car behind me on Gilmore Place who was pulling out to overtake me despite oncoming traffic either spotted me raise my right arm or perhaps saw the oncoming traffic and decided to hold back... I'm not sure if this really counts as good driving, but at least it wasn't bad. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-285521 Thu, 21 Jun 2018 17:49:13 +0000 acsimpson 285521@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm not sure white van man or Taxi driver would appreciate being blown a kiss. They probably aren't too familiar with BSL. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-285512 Thu, 21 Jun 2018 16:46:12 +0000 dougal 285512@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've been known to BSL at people but have passed the point where I can tell whether signs are iconic to an outsider. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-285511 Thu, 21 Jun 2018 16:32:38 +0000 ejstubbs 285511@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hmm, that was unexpected. Hope the post still makes some kind of sense. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-285510 Thu, 21 Jun 2018 16:31:31 +0000 ejstubbs 285510@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Might not always be easy to achieve on a bike* but including the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ijMJ7Ym_9M">BSL gesture for "thank you"</a> might help get the correct message across? It's one of the easier to understand signs, I think.</p> <p>* <em>Not that that seems to stop other gestures being deployed on occasion - only under extreme provocation, of course...</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-285440 Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:51:34 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 285440@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Ha - I'm always paranoid about shouting "thank you" to people in case they either think I'm being sarcastic, or worse, mishear it as "f*** you"..."</p> <p>I got growled at in Slamannan for the same offence from a driver who'd pulled in a space in a line of parked cars when he probably <em>could</em> have bored on through. It confuses people... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-285434 Thu, 21 Jun 2018 09:35:39 +0000 EdinburghCycleCam 285434@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>"This seemed to surprise them, so I hope they didn't think I was being sarcastic."</em></p> <p>Ha - I'm always paranoid about shouting "thank you" to people in case they either think I'm being sarcastic, or worse, mishear it as "f*** you"... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-285425 Thu, 21 Jun 2018 08:51:20 +0000 Frenchy 285425@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I cycled down The Wisp to Niddrie Mains Road last night. The last section of this has a few blind corners and solid white lines in the middle of the road, but this doesn't normally stop drivers from overtaking. But the driver behind me last night stayed several seconds behind me the whole way along. I shouted thank you as our routes diverged (I turned right, they went straight on). This seemed to surprise them, so I hope they didn't think I was being sarcastic. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-284483 Mon, 11 Jun 2018 11:51:21 +0000 algo 284483@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks @Lezzles - usually she's off the follow-me attachment but we were in a hurry and Kilgraston is pretty terrifying :-) Beautiful day for riding around town too.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=365&page=9#post-284482 Mon, 11 Jun 2018 11:40:43 +0000 Lezzles 284482@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Algo that is just too freaking adorable. What a lovely driver. But your kids face as she's whooshing along is just fab. </p>