people in cars who were too impatient
Is the correct answer in almost every single instance.
Edit: Also, this: http://rate-driver.co.uk/LL62HWG
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Today's rubbish driving...
(11330 posts)- Started 13 years ago by Stepdoh
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The hit and run driver from the Grassmarket two days ago has not only been found and arrested, but charged with attempted murder (which leads me to suspect there's more to the story than 'just' bad driving).
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WC: I saw a post on another forum which suggested that the victim was allegedly hit and then reversed over before the driver fled.
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Two numpties this morning. The first one pulled out in front of me on a roundabout but did have the decency to wind down his window and apologise.
The second was an Escocia doors and windows vehicle (http://escociadoorsandwindows.co.uk/) who passed me on Grange Road in Fife. The fact his pass wasn't particularly close is irrelevant when the oncoming traffic almost has to stop to let him complete his manoeuvre.
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EU63WLF tried to overtake me at a pedestrian island near Blackhall nursery, and I don't mean the other side of the island either! 'Square peg round hole'. So stupid!!
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Sainsbury's delivery driver on hand-held mobile phone going east-west along Comely Bank Road about 5:55pm yesterday. I didn't get the plate.
Worth reporting to Sainsbury's?Posted 9 years ago # -
@fimm yeah, I'm sure they'll know who was driving in that area at that time.
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The guy driving a dark SUV thingy who beeped at me as I cycled in primary (I was avoiding parked cars, potholed surfacing and ultimately turning right just ahead anyway) before overtaking at speed on Gilmore Place this evening, only to end up waiting behind a bus in the queue at the King's Theatre junction lights. I filtered down his right hand side, then gave him a sarcastic thumbs up a little later as he passed by slowly under the left-turn filter. Now that I have Pedalites, it concerns me slightly that I will be more identifiable by such idiots in the future...
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Yet another driver in the left-turn lane at Roseburn Street who decided to turn right instead.
A bit further on, a driver did a u-turn on Haymarket Terrace straight into my path. I saw it early enough to brake in time, but driver either didn't see me or didn't care. As I passed by I saw that the driver and passenger were staring intently at the huge sat-nav on the dashboard.
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A bus too close behind a cyclist going south past Wagamama on Lothian Road. The bus driver then overtook before pulling in to the Usher Hall stop. To be reported.
One taxi driver and one normal car driver who U-turned across both set bof tram tracks on York Place yesterday morning, as a tram approached.
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27 ran an amber - Home St - Gilmore Place despite being stopped/more than slow enough to stop for the red. messed up the whole sequence following.
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Truck rolled into an ASL that Boyfriend of Fimm and I were already occupying yesterday evening - we were in the left hand lane and he was going right (well rightish - this was at the 5 way junction where Gorgie Road becomes Dalry Road and we were going Gorgie -> Dalry).
I was going to post that I could see the driver perfectly well from where I was but I now wonder if it was a passenger I could see.
Fortunately our lights went green before his did and we went away.
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oh, and I had a woman drive straight at me on the wrong side of the road this morning on Harden place. think she was parking, but not moving at parking speed. seriously bizarre. I know it's foggy out, but it was almost 9am.
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I used the lothian buses contact us link on the website to report a x44 for a close pass last week, anyone know if/when I might get an acknowledgement?
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Depends. I've had a response within a day once; another time it took a few weeks.
Don't expect anything more than a standard reply.
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Dear Sir/Madam,
I wish to make a complaint about the driving standards exhibited by the driver of black cab #143 SN10 CYG.
This afternoon at approximately 16.30 I was stopped in the advanced stop zone (northbound) at the junction of South Bridge and the Royal Mile. While the lights were red and pedestrians were crossing, taxi 143 swerved from behind me directly into the ASZ, stopping fully within the box. Upon my request that he not do so, as it endangers myself and other cyclists, he stated "I do it all the time."
I would like to point out that encroaching into the ASZ while at a red light can be met with a £60 fine and 3 points on the driver's license. What concerns me even more than the driver's actions, however, is his attitude. He was extremely unconcerned with the danger his actions pose to vulnerable road users and seemed to find it amusing that I should care about my safety. Moreover, he didn't seem to care how him breaking the law could be perceived by the passengers he had in the back.
I hope you will remind this driver of the Highway Code and potential penalties for breaking the law, as well as the rights of vulnerable road users to have their space and safety provisions respected.
Many thanks,
mogwai1375Posted 9 years ago # -
To 'licensing@edinburgh.gov.uk'
At about 6pm tonight (Fri 18 Sept) I was on my bicycle in the right hand lane before the lights at the George IV Bridge/Bristo Place junction (in front of Bedlam), heading south, planning to use the bike lane in the middle of Bristo Place, behind two cars that were also waiting at the lights. Taxi SK11 ZFB came up very close behind and to my left, seemingly trying to crowd me out of the lane, and simultaneously also crowding a young woman cyclist who was in the left lane, a little behind me. After I'd got through the lights, he undertook me on the left and then moved sharply across me back in to the right lane to go round into Teviot Place. I didn't see what happened to the young woman, but he must have cut sharply in front of her to get to me like that. All this achieved nothing as I immediately caught up with him on Teviot Place, at a queue for the lights at Middle Meadow Walk. He seemed amused by the whole incident, as if bullying two cyclists were just a bit of fun for him. This is not acceptable behaviour for any driver, particularly not the holder of a taxi licence.
--No reply so far, except an acknowledgement.
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@colonies_chris
Seems SK11 ZFB has previous from 3 years ago...
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Don't forget, might be a different driver, but...
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Yeah, they tried that "different driver" tack when I reported a taxi driver in the same vehicle and very closely matching the physical appearance seen in someone else's footage of similar behaviour from a number of months previously.
It would be useful and identification code unique to each licensed taxi driver had to be displayed on the outside of the vehicle they were currently using, to help resolve complaints about the driving of cabs which are shared between drivers or have changed hands.
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Had two prime bad driving examples within 1km yesterday, on the roads out by Athelstaneford. First was a lady in a Merc who overtook on a sharp right, with a car coming the other way. Had to bail into the ditch, but stayed on the bike.
About two minutes later, I had a old fella brush my arm with his wing mirror. Nothing oncoming, no need for it at all. He stopped after I shouted, and said "What's your problem?". I told him he scared the life out of me, and a bit more room would be appreciated. He looked ready for a fight.
Thankfully the rest of my ride was unencumbered by vacuous gits.Posted 9 years ago # -
Nevelbell - I saw that incident, I was just going in to the park to do drop off and heard your shout. Absolutely idiotic driving!
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Just posted this on fb:
So tonight I got shouted at by a taxi driver. The only reason I can make out is because I was on a bike, and not in a bike lane that doesn't exist (he either told me I should be in a bike lane, of which there isn't one on that street; or told me that where I was riding wasn't a bike lane, of which I was perfectly aware, it was a road, where I'm allowed to be).
Here's the thing, I'm cycling perfectly legally, where I'm allowed to be, not getting in the way, not delaying him (I was going a different direction after the lights, and anyway the car at the front of the queue didn't notice the lights change so delayed him where I didn't), and yet he deliberately edged his bonnet closer and closer to me to try to intimidate me (cos I get really intimidated by diabetes-candidate eejits), winds down his window, shouts vaguely incoherently. And yet it's me, because I'm 'on a bike' who is the person in the wrong.
I was actually only trialling that street as an alternative to a stramash of lights as well.
I've a very sweary rant brewing on just who is the danger on the roads (after the taxi pillock seeing two drivers on their mobile, a white van and a taxi completely blow a red, get overtaken on a blind corner, have another taxi execute a three point turn right in front of me without looking, and have every single driver I saw in the 20 zone near my house breaking the speed limit - it was that kind of commute - I'm not in the mood for being told by some moron that I'm a danger to him in his metal box).
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Sounds like the taxi drivers of Embra are living down to even worse than their usual abysmal standards.
I've decided I'm not shopping again at the Bike Co-op until they stop lining the angry deathmobile pilots' pockets by advertising on them - unless they come back with a really good response about why their cabbies are 'different'.
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I'm riding along here at 0830 this morning. The road is thick with kids going to Watsons. It's right by the Royal Ed, whose patients aren't always the most attentive. There's a sign on the road saying "10". According to my GPS I'm riding at the speed limit. So why, when I move out of primary to ride round a speed bump, does the monster 4x4 behind me need to overtake at considerably more than 10mph?
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Another flippin' taxi!
Heading west on George Street this morning, just coming to Hanover Street. The bike lane runs right up to the ASL there, between a left and right lane. To my mind this makes the left lane feel like a left turn lane, especially as the continuation of George Street then has the bike lane in the same position, and the left side being loading.
Taxi stops to my left, almost not in the ASL. Green light, it becomes clear he's going straight on and trying to undertake me. I hold my position, he finally backs off (running out of road) moves across behind me, passes on the right and then just so I get the message completes the rest of that section of the street with his left side wheels in the bike lane.
The thing is, as he came to the lights I was stopped at there were no cars on my right, so he could very very easily have just gone there. He actually 'chose' to go on the left. Just seems weird.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Still time to sign up for the Near Miss Project one day diary for this year http://www.nearmiss.bike/
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I had one there last week (awaiting edit/upload) where a taxi was in the right-hand straight-on lane at the westbound red light at Hanover St. Although he was mostly in the ASL, I went around to the front of him to wait. He must have then backed up and moved left a bit as the moment the light changed he was off, curving around to my left and going straight ahead.
I had a most invigorating and fulfilling gesture-conversation this morning with some sort of chump. They had passed with an inch to spare just west of the bit where the two westbound lanes merge on York Place, presumably upset at not having been quick enough to get past where there were two lanes and unable to allow me more than one inch due to the presence of a large electric tram to their right, which would have done their paintwork and wing mirror some awful mischief.
Me, in their rear-view mirror, when stopped at the red at North St Andrew St: <<give me more room next time, please>>
Chump: <<points left, vigorously>>
Me: <<no, me here/middle. you move right. me space here/middle.>>
Chump: <<points left. waves hands>>
repeatThey might have been pointing at the left to signify that's where I should have been or at the cyclist, to their left, to whom they were giving significantly more space than they gave me, though this was because that cyclist was in the gutter (and later rode up onto the footway past the gallery).
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Just seems weird.
Cabbies. Always on the look out for ways to beat the system.
Their lives must be lived in a state of such constant frustration that those small victories of sneaking past a cyclist, spinning a U-y to avoid a 1 minute wait in a queue, give them the buzz that makes them feel alive.
Posted 9 years ago # -
At what point did you break out the old immovable suitcase mime?
A personal favorite...
[Edit: this comment would've worked better had PS not got in beforehand.]
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