BBC video on driver mobile phone use
I love the fact a few give as their reasoning, "It's about a child."
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(11330 posts)- Started 13 years ago by Stepdoh
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"We will be having words next weekend at the footy"
Maybe the lights changed...
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@wilmington'scow I did like woman saying, "What can you do?"
Obviously parking up somewhere to take the call / reply to the text is beyond her level of thinking.
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Obviously parking up somewhere to take the call / reply to the text is beyond her level of thinking.
Or in her case, having the passenger make the phone call.
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"Maybe the lights changed..."
I will give him a fair hearing.
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re the bbc video.
In my experience, the first response, 'yeah, I couldn't give a %$£*', sums it up. All the others are just slightly more polite ways of putting it.Posted 8 years ago # -
Similar to people parking on the zig zags at schools "I am picking up my child, dontcha know?"
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It does illustrate how easy a few days of enforcement would be. Stand a police officer there and rake in the fines.
Although then you'll be told it's just a money-making scheme. A problem to which I believe the solution is to remove fines and double the number of points given.
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Car dumped on the NEPN just up from fiveways, although probably should be on or of the 'crime' threads.
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https://i.imgur.com/PkFdbVO.jpg
"Think Bike...drive in the bike lane!"
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I was heading towards the canal from Morningside this morning and had the choice of either waiting at the back of the queue or using the cycle lane to filter to the front at the temporary lights on Craighouse Road. I chose the latter and had made it most of the way to the front when the lights turned green. The car which I had partly overtaken pulled away and I was about to slot in behind it when it became apparent that the white van that I had fully passed was pulling away at the same rate as the car in front so there was no space to slot into. The van then stayed on my back wheel or partly alongside me for the duration of the single lane of the roadworks and for about half of Myreside Road for good measure, giving me a distinct lack of space. At one point when the cab of the van was alongside me I looked at the driver who was just staring ahead as if I didn't exist. Unfortunately for him, the traffic ahead wasn't moving fast enough to complete the overtake so as soon as a gap opened up I put on a burst of speed and was finally able to slot into the gap. Shortly after that I was able to filter forward into the ASZ at the Colinton Road junction. In retrospect, I should have joined the back of the queue but that was still some awful driving and/or a complete lack of awareness.
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I met a car driver this morning who emerged, right in front of me, from the road to my right at a crossroads at which I was turning left. Same thing: staring dead ahead. I was watching and he didn't even glance in my direction (two BIG headlights on a BIG motorbike). He also failed to use his indicators at the next three junctions, at which point I despaired and went in the opposite direction.
I was heading towards the canal from Morningside this morning
For what it's worth, I would probably cut through the Royal Ed to Tipperlin, Spylaw and join the canal at Harrison Park. Myreside is pretty unpleasant at the moment.
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I don't understand why this guy wasn't jailed.
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When I'm heading from Morningside, I sometimes go through the woods and past the pond at Craiglockhart, joining the canal west of Meggetland. It's a nice route but somewhat stop-starty due to gates etc, and the surface through the woods isn't ideal. I still haven't cycled IWRATS' snicket.
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@Stickman shocking. Maybe they didn't want to 'panic' him?
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Aye he panics easily, though he seems to have evolved the perfect response of not being able to see people that are sprawled across his car's bonnet. That would have certainly panicked him.
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Cycling home yesterday, I found myself behind a slow and erratic driver on Bristo Place. I considered using the bike lane to overtake following the road works, but decided not to. I was glad that I hadn't when the car took the left onto Lothian Street so tightly that the front and back inside wheels rode up onto the pavement.
Walking back into town from Fountainbridge later in the evening, I was crossing Drysdale Road as a taxi driver decided to pull out from the traffic queuing at the temporary lights on Dundee Street, drove on the wrong side of the road towards an oncoming cyclist, before cutting the corner despite the fact I was still on my way across. I raised my hands in exasperation, staring at the driver as the taxi passed within a few feet of me. Again, the driver was just staring straight ahead.
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Last night, was about to cross A90 at lights between Cammo Rd and Cramond Brig. two cars went through at speed when light was just turning red, then after a further 5s when the pedestrian light had turned green and I had just started my crossing, a car accelerated through the red light at ~50mph.
I gave the driver a one fingered salute, but then it indicated to go right into Cramond Brig car park. I was wondering if there was going to be a confrontation, but the driver didn't end up turning in. As I went past a police car was parked in the car park. maybe that was why...
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The BMW driver, who ignored the barriers and did not respond to the calls and signals from the employees, then sat down with his car in the fresh asphalt.
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3 Neds on a Motorised Bike, Jerome K Jerome. Last night on the NEPN.
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I also encountered three youngsters on moped (?) with L plates on Roseburn Path last night (Tues 25 Sept) about 6.30pm. Not sure if "driver" had helmet, but the two passengers had hoodies.
They turned off path down towards Ferry Road. Guessed they might be heading towards Granton/Cramond. (Tried to memorise part of number plate, but forgotten it .....)
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Not driving, but compare sentence for mere possession of serious weapons and those for people involved with lethal vehicles.
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A holidaymaker who thought he would get “a slap on the wrist” if he was caught bringing stun guns into the country was jailed for five years today.
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Driver who reversed his car into a one way Street at the end you're not meant to go in, and then continued to reverse the wrong way along on the one way Street, because of course that's OK, right? Cos he's reversing, so that must be OK.
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I've not yet seen why but last night a #21 turned down Duncan Place from Duke Street, badly misjudging the tight turn and this morning a #12 was thundering down it almost as rapidly as a Broughton Removals truck.
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Seems that we don't have a monopoly on super-lenient sentences for drivers.
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Interestingly, the large white Transit sitting right on my tail on Myreside Road with much engine revving and occasional attempts to nudge past me was from Corstorphine Roofing & Building.
I knew I was in the right, and I wasn't going to give up my strong primary through the temporary lights, but it was quite intimidating all the same.
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@Greenroofer: they've got previous form haven't they? I always keep a close eye on their vans, and those of the sister company Murrayfield Roofing.
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From pi's link
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The driver, a 44-year-old chief inspector, admitted that it was a light sentence but told Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws, “that day will stay with me for the rest of my life.”
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