http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: The Ironic Taxi Driver en Wed, 13 May 2026 03:27:50 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5237#post-56046 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:34:46 +0000 kaputnik 56046@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I doubt they talk much about cyclists on the taxi forum as we are apparently invisible to most taxi drivers judging by their road use around us. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5237#post-56045 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:12:53 +0000 Instography 56045@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You could have some fun trolling in that forum as a cyclist. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5237#post-55950 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:16:48 +0000 wingpig 55950@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>They do seem quite keen on some rather outmoded forms of friendly insult. A quick search for "cyclist" doesn't bring back much... a couple of wee snipes about lights and headcam videos. One thread about rises in complaints seems to be focussed on complaints by passenger-victims rather than other-road-users. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5237#post-55949 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:12:57 +0000 Stepdoh 55949@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh, god, I'm guessing that's where irony and liberal thinking goes to die. But I'm going to make that judgement without reading anything there. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5237#post-55945 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:58:07 +0000 chdot 55945@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There's a forum...</p> <p><a href="http://www.taxi-driver.co.uk/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=12" rel="nofollow">http://www.taxi-driver.co.uk/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=12</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5237#post-55943 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:53:12 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 55943@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@crowriver - I wanted to distinguish this private hire cab driver from his peers... :P</p> <p>@wingpig - indeed it was... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5237#post-55941 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:42:19 +0000 wingpig 55941@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Was this one be-occupanted?<br /> The north side of the Lawnmarket seems marginally less abominable than the south, at least when going upwards. I do hope they don't put Johnston Terrace back exactly as they found it, too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5237#post-55940 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:38:53 +0000 crowriver 55940@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Shouldn't that be moronic instead of ironic? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5237#post-55936 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:19:42 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 55936@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I got beeped at this morning by Mr East Lothian Taxi 146 (SO55 PWL). Which was nice of him. Also nice to know East Lothian council teaches a good grasp of irony in its drivers. </p> <p>I guess I <em>was</em> in the middle of the <strike>road</strike> lane heading away form the lights at Jock's Lodge...</p> <p>Of course... He...</p> <p>He was stopped in the ASL. Oh, and I had a cyclist on my left. Oh, and there was a car parked in the bus lane ahead. Although I can excuse him the last as he was too busy gesticulating at me as he passed to notice that car. Then moved left in front of me. Then noticed the car. Then roared off at (trust me) a speed exceeding the posted maximum.</p> <p>That was the end of that. I thought. Starting the climb up the Royal Mile I'm passed closely by, you guessed it, Mr East Lothian Taxis. Definite punishment pass. He roars off once more. Of course even with me getting caught at the first lights I pass him in the stationary queue set to cross the Bridges.</p> <p>Cue punishment pass no.2 on the cobbles by the Court of Session. Can't be bothered with the games so I wait behind at the red light to cross George IV Bridge. And naturally stay behind him all the way down Johnston Terrace. Up Lady Lawson Street I'm not going to make the lights so let him go. </p> <p>And then... Catch him again as Fountainbridge crosses Lothian Road (I tuck in behind, the lights turn green just as I reach him and <strike>p</strike>ride comes before a fall. Turns out he's in the wrong lane anyway and needs to get left.</p> <p>I didn't react at all (save to smile every time I caught him or he went past again) - does wonders for the blood pressure not to react. Although I <em>did</em> want him to say, "You shouldn't be in the middle of the road", to which the response would have been "You shouldn't have been in the ASL/driven without looking where you were going/broken the speed limit/passed too closely." 1 perfectly legal action versus 4 criminal actions... </p>