At the start of the video the driver seems to be turning right onto the road through the same queue of traffic. He's going a lot slower than when he drives into the cycle lane without looking. If both his neighbours have really done the same in the past 12 months it's about time they all started looking before pulling into the cycle lane.
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Today's rubbish driving...
(11332 posts)- Started 13 years ago by Stepdoh
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Posted 7 years ago #
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Yes, the cyclist is perfectly visible. The driver has made an idiot of himself. It is encouraging that apart from some idiot talking to themselves in the comments section, the majority of them agree with us!
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Pretty shocking that he felt the need to drive such a short distance, instead of walking
EDIT. It looks like the initial right turn was made out of St. Davids Rd, so he was either making a very short journey, or he was rat-running through the residential streets there to avoid the Newark Rd / Station Rd junction.
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Giving him the benefit of the doubt he could have been making a stop somewhere on the rat run as part of his longer journey (I've not looked at the map though so perhaps there isn't doubt).
Posted 7 years ago # -
Not particularly dangerous, just so stereotypically "arrogant Mercedes driver".
Posted 7 years ago # -
Bleh.
In the space of half an hour, cycling from Blackford into Princes St and back:
Someone overtaking on right hand side of a traffic island.
Lorry parked on double yellow lines/double yellow kerb markings at Ratcliffe Terrace.
Taxi turning right onto Princes St from The Mound, with pedestrians crossing Princes St.
Car driver beeping at me for taking the lane on South Bridge, whilst a DHL van was parked in the bike lane.
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Lorry parked on double yellow lines/double yellow kerb markings at Ratcliffe Terrace.
Are you saying you've been there when there weren't vehicles on the double yellows? Don't think I have.
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Doored by the transport secretary. Probably being driven, not driving, but...
Posted 7 years ago # -
Not that long since the Chancellor's driver left hooked a cyclist too.
Can't seem to post link from my phone though.
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Very nearly taken out by someone blithely reversing out of a front on parking space on Heriot Row last night. Managed to stay on despite slippery cobbles/crazy braking combo. Went home and attached yet another light. This time a new front light to my helmet as I wondered if he couldn't see my handle bar mounted ones. If someone attempts to land air craft on the towpath it might be my fault.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Rulou, You might be right about the light but it sounds to me more like SMIDL than SMIDSY.
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Turning right from Marchmont Rd to Strathearn road was waved across kindly by first car waiting at Kilgraston. I went and cut the corner in order to expedite a speedy crossing. Cue shaking of heads by people in lead car waiting at Strathearn road, and then subsequent undertake at speed by the following car, just at the turn in by the retirement flats where I was maintaining primary for good reason. I can only assume they were annoyed by what they perceived as dangerous riding by me, and felt that threatening my 1 year old passenger was reasonable retribution.
Posted 7 years ago # -
That's shocking algo. My commiserations.
Posted 7 years ago # -
The lothian buses driver this morning who barged in front of me on a roundabout (I was already on the roundabout, she was coming on from the next junction round to the left), who then flipped me the finger for daring to indicate my displeasure with the horn.
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@nobrakes - a time and place may be enough for LB to figure out who that was; worth an email?
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@nobrakes, definitely worth reporting. If you don't know the service number then a description of the driver would be worth including.
I've no idea how they got there but yesterday a driver managed to end up stopped facing the wrong way on the verge at the northern exit of Maybury Roundabout. They eventually drove away so I assume there will be no report made of the incident.
At the other end of the road the pedestrian railing at Barnton junction has had squashed by another badly driven box.
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I might have done so at another time of year, but ach, right now I'd rather just leave people to their negativity and concentrate on trying to be nice to people instead.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Past and probably future, I fear
Driver jailed over fatal Borders crash has licence bid granted
Posted 7 years ago # -
Generalised mayhem in the city today. Like they were all on the beer or something. And the London Road roundabout....a mad vortex of mechanised hatred. What gives there?
Posted 7 years ago # -
I think London Road roundabout might be competing with the Picardy Place roundabout. And the latter, I think, might have been built in the service of dark powers (cf. the M25*).
*"Many phenomena — wars, plagues, sudden audits — have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man, but whenever students of demonology get together the M25 London orbital motorway is generally agreed to be among the top contenders for Exhibit A."
Posted 7 years ago # -
@unhurt
I did once become utterly convinced that I was in the presence of Satan when cycling in Edinburgh, but it wasn't there. In retrospect the story's quite amusing and I'll bore you with it at the next pub meet, but at the time I feared for my immortal soul which is odd because I'm an atheist and an empiricist.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Nearly had to cycle to lass wade today and those roundabouts would have been mental. Was middle of day but felt like rush hour.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Pinch point going up Kirk Brae; far enough from pavement to prevent overtakes (but not far enough to really be called primary).
Car driver gets within two feet of my rear wheel as they think about overtaking anyway. I turn left onto Claverhouse Drive. Window is rolled down so that they can shout at me to keep to the side of the road.
No thanks, you can just wait 5 seconds.
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Two DPD delivery vans within 100m, bottom of Leith. Both smack in the middle of the cycle lane and on the double red lines at the end of the parking bays.
Quality. Wishing I'd stopped and taken pics now. Was too cold at the time.
Posted 7 years ago # -
I was on the bus today and it slowed down to turn left into a side street. A motorist overtook us and then turned left across the front of the bus. What a complete [forum rules apply].
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Not this one?
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POLICE are appealing for witnesses after an 82-year-old was seriously injured when a Lothian Buses vehicle had to brake heavily to avoid a car.
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Posted 7 years ago # -
No but it WAS on Gilmerton Road! I don't know what type of car though, they all look pretty much the same to me. (I'm not car-ist..)
Posted 7 years ago # -
Honda Civics look like this: http://images.thecarconnection.com/lrg/2016-honda-civic-sdn_100530633_l.jpg
If it's possibly the same driver, police are likely to be interested.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Hmm, I just can't be sure. I only really saw it from behind. It was grey. I think it might have been more of a hatchback though.
Posted 7 years ago # -
http://www.productioncars.com/gallery.php?car=9053&make=Honda&model=Civic
Most civics driven badly are the old small types (with a more hatch back rear) from the 00s, those new large ones (as pictured) only came out in 2016 and are quite rare still
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