No.5 Lothian Bus about 6pm this evening, occupying all of the ASL at the junction southbound by Morningside clock. I've fed back to LB just now.
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Today's rubbish driving...
(11330 posts)- Started 13 years ago by Stepdoh
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Posted 9 years ago #
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Green Vauxhall Corsa SG12 NLU at Braid Hills Road crossroad didn't seem to understand that traffic turning right on a "Give Way" has right of way over traffic at a "Stop" line. Also "Stop" does mean stop and not slow down a bit!
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Black Mercedes just decided to pull out to get to the red lights at Morningside clock in front of a filtering on the right cyclist.
Cyclist did a superb job to stay upright and slapped car - despite which driver carried on oblivious.... Cyclist seen to be having a "chat" with them at lights.
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Experienced a similar incident myself this morning
I was in the "bus lane" city bound opposite Meadowbank House. A black faux by four ??62 OMC pulled right in front of me from the main lane without looking. I was lucky enough to be able to swerve around her, shouting very loudly, which she obviously heard and hit her brakes. No apology though.
Half an hour later an idiot in a wee car pulled out from a parking bay on my right in Roseburn Place. Same outcome. I shouted loudly, they hit the anchors, I managed a swerve.
Glad I had a good shouty voice with me this morning. Pleased with myself for handling both incidents without expletives. A first.
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The below incident happened yesterday morning on the way to work. I have been to the police to report it, and they have stated that no crime has been committed so they won't / can't do anything about it. Driver at taxi company also claims he did nothing wrong.
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I'm not sure if it counts as driving but a guy in a browsing chariot pulled out in front of me today without looking. It was the one way street beside Airdrie Library (home of the observatory) so he would have only had to look one way.
I was in a 2.5 litre 5 cylinder turbo Diesel Volvo S80 and the browsing chariot wouldn't have won that contest.
The reason for the S80 is related to two pulled nipples on one bike and an indicator rod snapped off in the sliding key on another. I'm about to transplant the sliding key from the one with dodgy nipples to the one with no key. I might also fit new cones on Number 2 son's folding Twenty.
New rim and key on order.
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We all rode as a family to the farmers market today, then split up. I managed to ride home safely with 8yo on her new bike. Some stressful moments but nothing too bad. Unfortunately Mr SRD and his stoker nearly got taken out on fountainbridge by a guy who ran the red on Ponton st. So egregious that a taxi which witnessed it laid on his horn. Not very nice start to the weekend.
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I witnessed a small blue boy-racer hatchback perform a very close and impatient overtake then aggressively pull closely in front of a cyclist heading north on Lothian Road at Castle Terrace. Completely pointless as there was a long queue at the lights ahead.
The cyclist immediately caught up, gave the driver an earful then safely filtered to the lights.
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@kenny
Notwithstanding the close pass, he clearly went past a stop sign without "stopping". Effectively the same as jumping a red light.
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@Kenny - try the Licensing office (licensing@edinburgh.gov.uk) as there are conditions on the Private Hire Car driver and vehicle licenses that may be contravened. That, and it will go down on the driver's record for when they do something else...
Robert
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As I was unlocking at Meadowbank Sainsbury, crunch:
After having discreetly inspected it as I went past, I wouldn't be surprised if her passenger door was too crunched to open.
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Shortly after turning left onto Gilmore Place this evening a red, modified sports car pulled out from the road on the right in front of me and another cyclists ahead of me and sped away, until it very shortly caught up with a council type truck just ahead of it. As we all approached the junction at the King's Theatre, the lights of which had just changed to red, the truck abruptly started pulling a three-point turn. The red car and I held back, but the other cyclist decided to pop down the inside whilst the truck was still moving to and fro, which seemed a bit riskly. The red car ended up backing up (I was to the side at this point) to allow the truck space to complete the manouevre, at which point I popped around into the ASZ given that the truck had finished turning. This seemed to annoy the red car driver who, like me, was planning on turning right, despite the fact that the lights were still on red, so he hooted at me, although I initially thought that it was the BMW who had just pulled up in the left turn lane. The BMW driver then failed to react when the filter light turned green so I theatrically ushered him forward and he got the the hint and set off. The red car driver was obviously confused as to why I was not moving at this point so hooted at me again. I turned round to him and gestured at the fact that the main light was still on red. Anticipating it turning green shortly afterwards, I started onto the junction despite the fact that a driver was running the red light from Home Stret, and made good my 'escape' around the corner right and then left. The red car driver hooted at me once more, for good measure, as he sped off up towards Bruntsfield so I returned the gesture with a suitable finger of indignation. Very frustrating...
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@jdanielp
I'm never at all sure what *honk* means from a driver when you're waiting at a red light.
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@ dougal
Just the usual -
'Oi, you're in my way, and I pay Road Tax.'
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Small car was waiting to turn into Baird Drive from Balgreen Road (northbound) this morning. At first I thought that the huge Buchanan Skip Hire lorry behind it was going to stop on top of the pedestrian crossing I was waiting at. But give him credit, his driver training must have told him that would be wrong. So he mounted the pavement instead to get round the car in front. Time saved: approx 3 seconds.
Later, after putting my bike away I was halfway across one of the pedestrian crossing in the work car park when a car decided to ignore me and drive straight across, meaning I had to jump out of the way. Would it surprise you to find out she was driving an Audi?
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@Stickman "crossing in the work car park ..." there's your problem, all bets are off for cars in car parks, they don't have to indicate or take notice of signs or anything apparently.
"Would it surprise you to find out she was driving an Audi?" not in the slightest. I think my highest incident rate is with/by Audis, which is stereotypical but in my experience fact-based. Reminds me of this beaut from the Daily Mash
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Now I see some badly-driven Audis, but I also see some being very well-driven. I have a suspicion that Audis are more recognisable than some other brands, and so while one might remember "small blue car" or whatever, one is much more likely to register an Audi as an Audi.
(No, I don't own one. I think Boyfriend Of Fimm might like to, though...)
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@fimm, I see what you're saying, but I'm quite particular about mentally noting what it is that's just nearly run me over :) That's not, of course, to say that all Audi drivers are bad ... just that the bad ones seem to be really bad :)
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Ooh look it's an Audi -
Double yellows before a bus stop.
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@chdot Perfectly acceptable - they have their park anywhere lights on.
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I'm working on my first novel. I plan to call it "The Tesco Delivery Van That Mistook Itself For A Bus".
It's inspired by the van I saw driving in the bus lane on St John's Road this evening.
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Most rubbish driving I've seen yet, partly due to the terrible weather making things much more slippy.
Going north from the Picardy Place roundabout, heading onto London Road (so in primary, in the rightmost lane), some sort of red car W231 RFS passes me *on the right*, almost running over the concrete divider in the process. Driver looked confused when I berated him through the (closed) window, while the passenger looked studiously ahead.
So if you happened to see a small person in completely unsuitable attire on a muddy, white roadie, swearing somewhat incoherently at the aforementioned red car; my apologies. In my defense, the whole thing was quite startling.
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Van passed me close and fast going downhill from Diggers towards the Gorgie/Dalry Road junction and then immediately pulled in on the left (to use the cashpoint, I assume). Most pointless pass ever.
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Me. Well, rubbish door opening.
I had checked my mirror and was about to open the door when I dropped my car keys. I picked them up and then opened the door without checking my mirror again. I nearly doored a cyclist. In my shock I think I may even have said "SMIDSY".
The guy quite rightly gave me an earful.
If that was you then I'm very sorry.
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Going northbound on Elm Row at ~6.10PM yesterday.
You shouldn't come to a stop in the "bike box", thinks this driver. So I'll just creep forward a bit. Oh but now I'm blocking the pedestrian crossing so I'll have to creep forward a bit more. D'you think anyone can tell?
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Cruising southbound on Causewayside, driver in a grey estate who sat right on my backside and honked long and hard at me for (I assume) not cycling at the edge of the road, then drew alongside for a bit of blustering and finger pointing. Then roared off to join the line of slow moving traffic 100m ahead.
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Nearly squashed by a white coach this morning.
I'd been heading east on Grange Road and was waiting to turn right across the oncoming traffic in to Causewayside/Ratcliffe Terrace. There was a car in front of me waiting in the middle of the junction also waiting for a gap in the traffic. A white coach approached from Salisbury Place and was indicating to turn north up Causewayside. It was over to the right hand side of his lane as you would expect for someone turning right but was wide enough that no cars could sneak up the inside of him on the left. The car in front of me went ahead with his turn and I followed him closely behind, only problem being the coach driver decided he wasn't going to turn right after all and headed straight on right at me. I managed to nip across and had time to give him some verbals but if I'd been any slower setting off I would have been squashed. The more I think of it I think he would have collided with me even if I hadn't gone as he was too far over in his lane and would have hit any traffic waiting in the junction to cross. Not the most pleasant way to start the day. :(
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South Gyle - Chap close overtakes as we're approaching a parked truck which would have been sort of ok if he had not then suddenly slowed down to turn right into a business car park. I had to slam on the brakes to avoid mashing into the back of the truck.
Fountainbridge approaching from the cinema. Taxi just starts t0o drift to the left as he over takes me and slow down. Finally signalled and pulled onto the pavement. I suggested that it was "mirror signal manoeuvre" , Not "Manoeuvre, signal"
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Dalton For (S)crap van on the High Street this morning. Going uphill, approaching the red light at Jeffrey Street / Queen Mary Street, pulls alongside me stopping me getting as primary as I'd like (I was fairly trundling into the headwind). We wait at the lights for a bit, I've already turned round to inspect who is in this unfavourable position.
As the lights change and we set off, indicators go on and lo-and-behold they attempt a slow-motion left hook of me. Horn was sounded when I turned to give them a verbal "I say! What the devil do you think you're doing" so I came to a halt infront of them, stood off the bike and loudly berated them in the junction as they continued to toot and toot. ("Toot all you like, I'm not going anywhere until you realise you can't do that")
It's nice to give the tourists some "culture" to watch as they plod the otherwise predictable Royal Mile.
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Mother driving a maroon people carrier (Zafira?) with 3 kids on board.
Gives me a close pass on Baird Dr even though she was approaching a T junction and there was no need to pass.
Then proceeds to nearly crash into a light council refuse truck parked on the wrong side of the road. Only avoiding a crash by swerving onto the opposite side of the road at the last minute (and becoming in serious danger of having a head-on with any cars entering Baird Dr).
She did, however, manage to stop at the red light at the ped. crossing on Balgreen Rd despite that fact that she was gassing on her phone the whole time...
I gestured that she shouldn't be using her phone (with the handset gesture and shaking of head), to which she wound down her window. So proceeded to tell her that it was shocking that she'd nearly crashing into a van with her children aboard because she was on the phone. She didn't seem to care and wished me a 'nice day' in a sarcastic way.
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