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Today's rubbish driving...

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  • Started 13 years ago by Stepdoh
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  1. CJC
    Member

    The driver of private hire LM09 OKE that tailgated me as I drove down south bridge to leith walk. He started flashing his lights, sounding his horn and trying to force his way past me using the central reservation.

    I was driving behind a soup cycle courier and there was insufficient room to overtake safely (also heavy traffic, red light ahead, etc).

    I've reported this driver before - he drive dangerously around me whilst cycling last year but the council did nothing about it. I also had another cyclist contact me via this forum with evidence which I sent to the council - they said it didn't count as collaboration.

    I've reported him again. Unlikely to do anything as I have no video evidence but might be good to be kept on his record. I've seen the vehicle around town a lot and it's always driven poorly.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  2. nobrakes
    Member

    This is exactly the kind of driver I was targeting with my database idea.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  3. chdot
    Admin

    "

    MOTORIST died after travelling the wrong way down the M90 before ploughing into a car with two kids inside. The woman, 29, was pronounced dead at the scene after her Citroen C4 smashed into a Land Rover Discovery on Saturday.

    "

    http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/7202060/M90-crash-death-riddle-Wrong-way-driver-killed.html

    Posted 8 years ago #

  4. Chug
    Member

    The female driver of a small red car at the northern end of the Comiston Rd works at Morningside Station, about 4.15pm Monday.

    Mrs Chug was pootling (in her own words) down Comiston Rd from Greenbank towards Morningside using the bus lane. The traffic at the bottom of the hill, outside Comiston Fry, was backed up in the right lane, waiting to turn right into Cluny Gardens. Mrs Chug stayed left, wanting to go straight on and up Morningside Rd.

    Knowing there had recently been an accident here, she was taking it very cautiously across Morningside Drive junction. Turned out this was very prudent, as the small red car, which was heading south, simply turned through the static traffic in the right lane, heading for Mornignside Drive, and straight across the bows of Mrs Chug. Luckily, she was alert, not travelling too fast, and managed to stop in time.

    Not a nice junction at the moment.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  5. neddie
    Member

    Lots of angry drivists at the temporary traffic lights on Marchmont Rd / Warrender Pk Rd last night.

    Light appeared to remain on red for a very long time...

    Story of 5 little pigsdrivists:

    - 1st driver went through on red anyway.
    - 2nd driver waited.
    - 3rd driver decided to run all the way home with a lot of angry revving and a cloud of black smoke, only to park around the corner.
    - 4th driver made a 5-point turn
    - 5th driver flashed his lights and honked his horn.

    6th driver decided to pull-up alongside 2nd driver to tell them to drive through the red light anyway.

    Nasty, angry, aggressive stuff.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  6. stiltskin
    Member

    If the traffic lights are faulty, you are allowed to go through them.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  7. wishicouldgofaster
    Member

    The question is though - are they faulty or have they been set that way to avoid accidents?

    Posted 8 years ago #

  8. 14Westfield
    Member

    Multiple chumps coming from lothian road blocked the junction with princes street this morning, meaning a congested filter way back from shandwick place for me- and a dead stop for all the buses etc waiting to go through.

    Beeb is reporting that this is STILL happening (lunchtime) and the trams have had to shorten thier route because of it.

    Are we genuinely unable to stop selfish drivers from blocking one the primary route in our city?!

    Posted 8 years ago #

  9. chrisfl
    Member

    Had to brake sharply to avoid colliding with the HGV that had decided to ignore the no entry sign, making a right turn from Bankhead Drive onto Cutlins road.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  10. chdot
    Admin

    "Are we genuinely unable to stop selfish drivers from blocking one the primary route in our city?!"

    Apparently.

    http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/1_edin_t/1_edinburgh_transport_trams_foot_of_the_mound_rb_parr.htm

    Posted 8 years ago #

  11. neddie
    Member

    @stiltskin / wishicouldgof

    The jury is out as to whether the lights were faulty, or simply a very long wait to get through 4 phases, one phase at a time, or possibly the car in front hadn't been "detected".

    My post was mainly about the way in which the drivers reacted to said lights...

    ...which didn't bring out the best in humanity to say the least.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  12. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    No surprise that a driver nearly hit me as I passed Coal Hill in Musselburgh today as it happens EVERY TIME!

    Posted 8 years ago #

  13. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    Did I mention the driver who revved his engine and laughed as my daughter and her friends were crossing on the green man on her way back from school. That would be the driver waiting illegally in the yellow grid of course.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  14. jdanielp
    Member

    I was walking up Lady Lawson Street the other night and noticed a car that had come down the street waiting to turn right onto West Port. The lights were still red for it as I crossed the road a minute or two later, at which point the driver chose to progress though the red anyway... As I continued up the hill a taxi and a bus arrived at the junction and both stopped at the still red light. As I was getting towards the top of the hill, the lights just changed to green a good 3 minutes or so since I had started from the bottom of the hill despite almost no other traffic coming in other directions. Odd, not that it actually justified the driver's action.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  15. jonty
    Member

    It's been fixed now, but sitting outside Tiles bar last summer you were usually guaranteed to see dozens of RLJing cars and taxis as drivers decided that waiting ~4mins for the lights to change was too long. I had some sympathy with them as the lights were probably broken (although they did eventually go green) however they could have at least given way to pedestrians crossing on the green man they'd knowingly decided to drive through...

    Posted 8 years ago #

  16. Wilmington's Cow
    Member

    The SUV driver who almost crashed into my side today in the rush to turn into a side street three seconds ahead of me...

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    Posted 8 years ago #

  17. fimm
    Member

    Driver of lorry from St Andrews Timber Supplies LTD nearly took out an oncoming bus in his rush to pass me. When that didn't work, and oncoming traffic meant that he still couldn't overtake, he sat on his horn continuously. I was very tempted to keep cycling until he laid off his horn, but decided I had better not, and pulled over.

    I wish in retrospect that I'd stopped in the middle of the lane and taken photos of the vehicle, as I only got the company, not the registration plate.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  18. CJC
    Member

    @fimm - when people have done that to me, and its safe to do so, I've slowed down significantly and obviously as a reaction to them.

    If they don't get the hint I stop and take photos, unless I know I've captured them on the camera already (but I generally use a front-facing camera, so doesn't capture traffic behind).

    Posted 8 years ago #

  19. dougal
    Member

    W408 HBJ, in British Racing Green (probably a Jaguar), barging through cyclists, weaving between bus lane and car lane, laying on the horn and generally being super-obnoxious on Leith Walk this morning.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  20. wingpig
    Member

    Small blue car/idiot combo squealing its tyres and revving stupidly as it pulled out of a side road after being delayed for two seconds to let a six-year-old cross the road.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  21. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    wingpig: "blue car/idiot combo"

    I used to cope with close passes when I commuted by reimagining cars/drivers as decepticons (seriously), something resembling a human controlled vehicle but somehow lacking human empathy. Something that has started on its way towards becoming a dalek, or something that would fail the Voight-Kampff test. Kept me sane for hours those thoughts (unless I'm already mad).

    Posted 8 years ago #

  22. Big_Smoke
    Member

    A lobotomite in a Saab 9-3 passed me dangerously close coming out of Tarvit Street towards Gilmore Place. I thought something seemed suspicious when he put himself inside the ASL. Of course I was in a position that he should have been able to have seen me and he cut in anyway.

    On the plus side that taxi driver who gave me the finger a few weeks ago was said to be recorded.

    Thank you for your below email.

    I can confirm the Cab office Inspector at Police Scotland has conducted an interview with the driver and has given him corrective advice about his behaviour.

    A record of this complaint has been kept on the drivers’ file and can be referred to in the future if required.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  23. jdanielp
    Member

    Cyclingmollie: "(unless I'm already mad)"

    That Voight-Kampf test of yours. Have you ever tried to take that test yourself? ;)

    Posted 8 years ago #

  24. deckard112
    Member

    ...They're just questions...designed to provoke an emotional response :D

    Much like a lot of people driving!

    Posted 8 years ago #

  25. earthowned
    Member

    No surprises that someone called Deckard knows all about the Voight-Kampff empathy test ;-)

    Posted 8 years ago #

  26. Moose
    Member

    @fimm That may have been the same St Andrews Timber lorry driver that was delivering to the site at Currie Scholars Gate yesterday morning. The driver lost his rag when the site people told him that he couldn't deliver (because it was agreed with local school there'd be no deliveries at drop off times). He pointed his lorry at the pavement (which had a toddler on a balance bike), mother went apoplectic: meanwhile he forced open the gates and did his delivery anyway...

    I took some photos and St Andrews Timber had written by lunchtime to say that the driver was receiving a warning. I don't know how many lorries they have but it wouldn't be too many to track down from time/location I suspect.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  27. fimm
    Member

    @Moose, the lorry would have passed me on the Lanark Road / Lanark Road West about 7:25 - 7:30am ish on Wednesday morning.
    I haven't actually got in touch with them. Maybe I should.

    Edited to ask; where is "Currie Scholars Gate"?

    Posted 8 years ago #

  28. Moose
    Member

    @Fimm It's the old Currie primary site on Lanark Road West. Just along from the Riccarton Arms. The incident at the site was 835. So unless they had multiple lorries in that area...? (the company is Prestonfield)

    Posted 8 years ago #

  29. Charlethepar
    Member

    Today's rubbish driving was brought by an idiot MGIF LRT bus driver. Going East along Princes Street, so keen was he to pass, he wilfully drove on the "Trams Only" bit of lane ahead of the tram stop, and then pulled tight in front of me. Just to be caught at the mound lights, where I drifted past him, giving him the benefit of some sarcasm as I passed.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  30. MediumDave
    Member

    Gurt big lorry stuck under the Cameron Toll railway bridge again this morning at about 0920. Plenty of emergency services of all kinds in attendance.

    Posted 8 years ago #

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