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stickyToday's rubbish driving on Randolph Lane this evening resulted in this car parked thus:
- and blocking the dropped kerb access to NCN1/76, which wasted several minutes of my life while I extricated myself from the torpedo to manoeuvre it diagonally up the kerb and around all the street furniture, just so I could carry on my journey towards Charlotte Square.
Monday lunchtime. Big tipper truck, on the shared path just before Seafield Pl. Very nice chap. Truck bleating he needed to take a break. He did. On the path. Was interested to learn of the many opportunities to park on Marine Dr, but couldn't move truck - on a break.
(& was a nice chap)
was brought to you today by the man thinking I will just turn right from Deanhaugh Street onto St Bernards Row. I don't CARE if there's a pavement. and I will flash my hazard lights as a sort of apology/excuse/geoutofjailcard...
I was going that way anyway and when he stopped to illegaly park next to Falshaw bridge and have a word he simply mumbled, "very sorry appreciate I did wrong" didn't sound sincere in the slightest. Worth reporting to plod?
Cycling East along the Kirkliston Road, at the little 'S' bend just before the straight that overlooks the airport there was an ambulance attending an RTA. A car was lying at right angles across the road occupying the entire opposite lane with paramedics and others in attendance. I could hear a car coming up behind and as the incident was partly hidden by the bend I did a slow down signal & eased off myself to pass the crash. Cue the Nissan Micra behind me to overtake without reducing speed at all at the very point I passed the ambulance. The boy racer concerned was a little old lady of about 70. This led to much swearing on my part which obviously slightly bemused the paramedic until I nodded at the fast disappearing OAP. It just goes to show you are never to old to be an impatient idiot.
Not surprised. Actually most of the terrible / idiotic / inattentive driving I see is committed by the elderly. Personal favourite: overtaking me within the same lane while the adjacent lane is completely empty, without even so much as a hint of moving to the right, as though I'm invisible. And not only blind, they seem to be completely deaf too, never reacting to the rather loud swearing their behaviour elicits from me.
Coming down the M90. There's a big queue (we were in it for about an hour) due to roadworks north of the Bridge. As we join the back of the queue, there's an on slip road. Every so often, a driver would put on their hazard lights and reverse up the down slip road...
Then there were the people using the hard shoulder to get to the slip road they wanted. If you're going to do that, you'd at least do it cautiously, wouldn't you? Not just speed down in spite of the fact that others wouldn't expect you to be there?
@fimm
I too was stuck in said delays coming back from Dundee. In the 2 miles of tailbacks I noticed no less than 4 cars with bonnets up in the hard shoulder, which I remarked upon to my wife as being much more that one would have expected. It transpires that she didn't find this interesting at all.
Not strictly on topic, but I rather enjoyed watching the following pedestrian v rubbish driver video that someone shared online the other day, despite the lack of action: http://www.naden.de/blog/bbvideo-bbpress-video-plugin -->
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Man alive, those guys have serious cojones, I wish I had the bottle to do the first one especially.
The first one is brilliant...
Today's rubbish driving was the white truck which decided that it would overtake me at the pinchpoint on Shandon Place thus forcing me off the road. Good work.
The drivers of both vehicles which ran through the red on the left-turn from Constitution to Bernard Street this morning. If you want to be able to proceed when the light is red you need to be on a form of transport you can hop off and walk across the stop line, sillies.
1) The driver of the car that overtook me with so much space that they nearly ran into the car coming the other way.
2) A car is indicating left, and pulls out a little as it is a sharp left turn. So the driver of the following car decides to pass the left-signalling car on the left. Unbelievable.
Taxi driver (licence 1221) who changed lane from right to left on Forrest Road this morning without indicating or checking whether the left lane was actually empty (it wasn't - I was in it). He then drove extremely close behind me beeping and trying to bully me out of his way.
I asked driver what his problem was when he stopped to pick a fare up outside the Sheriff Court and he then used naughty words and wound his window up. He topped off his performance by driving his taxi at me as I was in front of his cab getting his licence and registration number.
Reported to licensing@edinburgh.gov.uk
Textbook left hook from someone in a wee red car pulling across me (in the bus lane) to get into Tiso's car park. If the same vehicle is there tomorrow I'll assume they're an employee and email the shop about them
Textbook trying-to-get-past-when-there-really-wasn't-enough-space-between-me-and-the-traffic-on-the-other-side-of-the-road on Lindsay Road from someone driving something liveried, which the camera hopefully caught.
Scotwaste bin wagon trying to do a commercial waste pick-up round along York Place westbound just beyond Conan Doyle pub where the road goes to 1 lane. as a result, everyone was stuck behind them and nothing was moving and the roundabout was backed up solid. Once I threaded my way through the blockage it meant the first section of Queen Street was beautifully devoid of vehicles.
Driver who drove into Ponton Street from East Fountainbridge, despite warning horn from truck driver behind them.
davidsonsdave, it rather sounds as if you should be reporting that taxi to the police - I would have thought there's the possibility of an assault charge there. Sounds nasty.
NiallA
Thanks - the traffic was fairly slow moving so it maybe wasn't as dramatic as it sounds but that doesn't excuse his behaviour.
I got a reply from CEC stating that they will pass my complaint to the Cab Inspector at Police Scotland and ask him to investigate the circumstances, so will wait to see whether anything comes of that but I won't hold my breath.
The report I made in September about the VW Transporter ended with no action as it seems that the Police won't take action if the vehicle isn't local.
Comedy stupidity this morning.
I was driving today and was boxed in - deliberately - on the dual carriageway section at South Gyle.
I couldnt help but be 'in' the bus lane as there was a car behind me and the silly person to my right who had zoomed up my outside in the first place.
She then proceeded to toot and berate me for being in the lane........as she wanted to be where I was to enable her to to turn left to go to RBS.
I am convinced that - apart from the more obvious health benefits - that car driving is terrible for stress hormones. It really cant be good to turn up at work feeling so totally wound up.
Today - just lots of people not 'driving to the conditions'.
'Obviously' they were safely inside - on four wheels - not conscious of the under (two) wheel conditions - best described as slimy and potentially slippy.
Worst was the Royal Mail van driver who (presumably) didn't like the way I turned into Market Street very carefully (significant negative camber off The Mound).
A bit close all down the hill and left into Waverley Bridge. I signalled right to go to the station so he just *had* to undertake very close - only to turn into Princes Mall shortly afterwards (about 3:40).
Must be under pressure to meet the Universal Service Obligation.
Someone leaving work with an aggressive acceleration and then a sharp turn - you could actually see their back end lose traction and slide out to the side, if only briefly. And that was after a full day for the frost to melt. This morning was pretty but treacherous.
Edit: Just got a "slow down, you move too fast" error message posting this even though the message got through. Thanks bbPress!
@dougal I can see 2 post requests 2 seconds apart at 22:03:54 and 22:03:56, so I wonder if it was a question of double posting.
My bad driving was the number 38 bus that cut me up on Robertson Avenue as the the road narrowed. Very annoying to have to apply brakes going uphill.
Later on the same bus followed me along Ashley Terrace far too closely for my liking.
Two close passes on country road - one a flat-bed artic which also forced two oncoming cars to stop. And then in Musselburgh three drivers went through a red light in front of a waiting police car.
I was a little bit later going along Links Place this morning after mopping up a puddle of sick generated by the phlegm-snortling eldest and the difference in the amount of desperate idiots on the road was remarkable. Someone spent the whole way down to the junction with John's Place revving away at my shoulder, overtaking then left-hooking metres before the turn. Immediately afterwards, despite the traffic being queued along Charlotte St from the lights back to John's Place (with the last person in the queue being someone still half-protruding from John's Place), the driver of the next car behind me still felt it worthwhile to overtake and then immediately swing left, then immediately avert their head so that I could only shout at the back of their hair through their half-open window. Unfortunately I had no camera attached today.
Three smidsy's between Merchiston park and harden place. Talked to the first one. Classic - didn't see me. Apparently my two handlebar mounted lights are invisible.
White van man sailing through thoroughly red lights at one of the crossroads around George Square (Glasgow...), narrowly missing me proceeding on green.
Good way to christen the Virb camera, I suppose.
that was close... were you on folder rather than Meta? Camera has nice clear pic though.
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