Not that being a CEC vehicle should make it any more or less relevant but go and report that driver.
A potty mouth like that could easily upset a more delicate cyclist, who might rightly fear physical abuse next.
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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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Black cab aggressive overtake on my inside on Leith Walk outside Eatalias. The road seems slightly wider before the turning to Brunswick Street and the cab squeezed into the gap between me (in primary in the bus lane) and the kerb. Heavy emphasis on the squeeze.
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Today is one of those days I feel like chucking it. Just one guy but so blinding stupid that short of taking his licence I doubt he'd ever tolerate bikes "in his way".
Riding down a back street/rat run that is saughton mains drive there's a moron sitting right behind me revving and generally being an idiot, despite me going faster and not needing to near stop for speed bumps, nd finally catches me when I pull in behind car waiting on oncoming traffic to clear. At which point because I didn't let him pass he starts sounding his horn and shouting. Even though I was right behind the car in front he still wanted past. I even tried to explain it, before questioning his parentage and intelligence....
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.... goes to driver of taxi number 1061, at about 20:20 on Forest Row, who held his horn on me most of the way to the lights because I merged out (well ahead of him) from the meadows and took primary through the maze of parked cars on both sides of the road.
He then proceeded to use his vehicle to block me off from turning right up Chambers St, shouting profanities at me through his passenger side window. I wish I was making it up.
Do the taxi office take complaints of bad conduct seriously or is it just a waste of time?
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"Do the taxi office take complaints of bad conduct seriously or is it just a waste of time?"
Yes, no.
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Thanks, I'll write an email for the morning.
Since trying to 'commit' to the bike I feel like once a week I get a fright like this that leaves me feeling awful.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Klaxon, try not to let it get to you. It happens to all of us at one time or another.
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I'v certainly reported a couple of taxis. The last one I sent with video footage of a minibus taxi for disabled kids close passing a female cyclist on front of me at a narrowed lane for roadworks. The taxi driver was shown the video and warned according to the council.
Today's poor driving - I had my camera off at the time as I was passing a school - should really have it on as that's where the worst driving is... As I was going round a bend toward the T junction at the end of Oxgangs Road North next to the barracks, I glanced behind and indicated right and there was a VW trying to pass me despite us being less than 50m from the junction.
I shook my head and shouted "really?" and moved over as he dropped back. He turned left at the junction but gave me some kind of abuse about not being on the road' I think I told him to go f**k himself. So, in a 20 with lots of school kids about, he tries to overtake approaching a junction intending to turn left cutting across me all this just after a chicane with a speed bump and yet I'm at fault for preventing this by changing lane?
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I finally reported a black cab after a particularly close call at Harrison Gardens/Ashley Terr junction and it was investigated. However, the lady owner claimed to be the only driver of the cab, therefore the aggressive, abusive, baldy bloke who I described was unknown and clearly I had made a mistake. Yeah, right...
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@Rulou, sounds like more than bad driving going on there then.
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"video footage of a minibus taxi for disabled kids close passing a female cyclist on front of me at a narrowed lane for roadworks"
@johnnyboy A proper black-cabbish-minibus, or was it red with the registration PN03 CWJ and some sort of scrubbed-out/faded logo on the sides?
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@Rulou sorry to hear that. Seems to be a common wheeze.
Years ago a friend of mine was assaulted by 4 teenagers who jumped out of a car. He got a very good look at the car and licence plate and it all matched up. However, the owner of the car swore blind to the police that it had never left their driveway all weekend. Nothing the police could tangibly do. More cctv these days of course, which might help.
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@winpig a proper non-taxi taxi, the kind the black cab drivers get annoyed at you calling taxis. here's the video anyway: https://youtu.be/aN-9DYa643I I have no idea who the cyclist was so I can't tell her he was warned about it unfortunately.
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Got tooted at on Russell Road by driver of a car overtaking me tonight. Not clear to me why but I don't think it was because they recognised me :) Must have been due to my road position (i.e. being on the road....) or something. Spoiled an otherwise pleasant evening I'd just had at week 4 of bike maintenance class :)
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@acsimpson, @snowy - yes, thanks, not uncommon unfortunately. I only had the licensed cab number and not the registration so there was nothing much I could do. I may not 'accept' that so quietly were it to ever happen again.
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The angry can driver bullying the learner driver has been sacked apparently:
He's tearfully saying how he doesn't normally drive like that, out of character, yah-de-yah-de-yah. Hopefully others will learn that this sort of behaviour has consequences.
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I can imagine what the reaction would have been if the wee lassie in the learner car had been one of "us" instead of on of "them".
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Cracker this morning. I'm heading east through Haymarket; from the lights outside the station I can see that a taxi driver is stopped in the West Maitland St bus stop with his door open. The Citylink driver in the inside lane hadn't seen this though and at the last second pulls out and sounds his horn. I'd anticipated this and held well back in the outside lane.
I pull up to the ASL to turn into Torphichen St beside the Citylink, which is firmly planted in the ASL. His window is open and I catch his eye.
Driver: "Bloody taxi drivers - idiots."
Me: "Yes, but you shouldn't be stopped in the bike box."
Driver: "What?"
Me: "You're stopped in the bike box" (I point out the box)
Driver: "But his door was open, I had to get round him"
Me: "Yes, but you shouldn't be stopped in the bike box"
Driver: "It's hard to stop sometimes."
Me: "What? It's been a red light here since we left Haymarket."
Driver: "F*** off"
<light to turn right changes to green, I set off, bus also sets off on red"
Me (shouting): "It's a red light for you!"Worrying that a bus driver says that it's hard to stop sometimes. That firm deserves its name of Sh**yLink
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Stagecoach bus SF07AMV pulled out on me at the George St/Frederick St roundabout this morning. Idiot driver was following another Stagecoach bus out of Frederick St, never even looked right. Took all of my braking to get stopped, fortunately no cars or bikes were up my bahookie. Driver was utterly oblivious till I shouted up through his open window. Email sent, will see what comes back (not holding my breath).
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For the last 3 years I've been getting a Citylink bus to Glasgow Airport to jet off on my hols.
I think I can safely say by the number of red lights the buses rip through each time that they have a serious problem with their brakes and stopping ability!
Posted 9 years ago # -
This was way too close. Low speed but no need for squeezing through there.
At least the 4th car didn't seem as keen to push through!
Posted 9 years ago # -
Erob I've been having issues with people doing that to me. I dislike it a lot.
Posted 9 years ago # -
I keep in the lane & block through traffic. Simple...
This might not be exactly as per the HWC but it keeps me safe.
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@Erob Unforgiveably impatient and putting you in a very vulnerable position. I agree with Hankchief - that's what I do. Some people do that to right turning cars though too - swerving almost onto the pavement to pass on the left, very often without considering what might be on their inside in a bike lane for example.
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This morning a car pulled a u turn right in front of me forcing me to slow right down to avoid being hit. Then to make matters worse they started to brake check me to punish me for being too close behind them without considering why I was there in the first place!
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"I keep in the lane & block through traffic. Simple..."
There is a junction at the top of Minto St with Salisbury Place I use regularly. Cars always *fly* past me when I wait to turn right. I've taken to stopping diagonally across the lane and not moving forwards into the hatched area until my exit is clear or there is a right-turning vehicle behind me.
I've found this makes me feel safer and drivers will slow down significantly (enough for the angry ones to shout abuse, which I prefer to being squeezed past or worse)
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The driver of the car that overtook me at speed on Myreside Road (but not on the blind corner at least) despite oncoming traffic, only to have to stop 100 metres or so down the road to join the end of the predictable and completely visible traffic queue, at which point I rolled by on my way towards the ASZ...
Posted 9 years ago # -
Very impatient and aggressive driver behind me this morning.
Passing Tesco on Nicolson St, heading towards town. I had to move out to pass an (illegally) parked van about 10m before red lights. There were other cyclists beside me so I stayed out rather than merging in front of them.
Maroon Nissan revs behind me, blasts horn, then undertakes in parking spaces cutting off two other cyclists. Remember that there is a red light ahead and a car waiting there.
I politely ask driver what he's doing.
Driver says I should be back "in my lane" (there is only one lane here) and then starts swearing at me.
A pedestrian steps in and shouts "stop being so impatient" to the driver.
Posted 9 years ago # -
Everyone from every exit onto the Picardy Place roundabout. Cars, vans, buses. The lot of them. It's bad enough so many of the lanes are closed just now making it one unholy mergefest, but everyone just barged onto the roundabout and got themselves thoroughly stuck with very little way to extricate themselves.
I filtered through and left them to it.
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