8.20 by the blue van, yarp.
Looks like Sainsbury's and the Co-op from now on, then.
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Today's rubbish driving...
(11337 posts)- Started 13 years ago by Stepdoh
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Cool Bruce see you
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I don't shop at Tesco if I can avoid it anyway.
Hope you find your witness, recombodna.
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I wouldn't expect a company to disclose the results of an investigation to a non-involved party.
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Cycled around Arthurs seat a few times today, slowly and steadily as I've been rather ill and was trying not to stress my lungs, still going a fairly moderate pace though. Anyway I got honked at not once but TWICE by cars that wanted past. Both of these times were within about 5 metres of a takeover place. I think the first time was more the chap thought I hadn't noticed him, but still gave me cause to wobble a touch.
The second chap was just showing off to his GF. Honked for no reason and I wobbled quite a lot. I gave him a wee wave to say "What?" and he started to accelerate, so I decided to speed up with him and sit right behind him. He then started swerving all over the road. I decided to pull back at that point because I was worried he was going to brake hard to try and throw me off. Anyway. What a plonker.
Oh and finally. When Iw as coming up Queens Drive for the first time there was a car coming back down the hill, and not slowly. Rather disconcerting.
Any way we could get a "cyclists take priority" sign put up?
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"I wouldn't expect a company to disclose the results of an investigation to a non-involved party."
Agreed - strange way of putting it though.
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There is no "child-seat effect". In return for not being happy about him accelerating downhill towards a red light past me through the natural pinch-point formed by parked cars at either side of the north bit of Restalrig Road as I was taking care to keep a door's width away from the cars to my left, wee grey car K88 GRM threatened to "pull me off my bike and knock my block off" if I "got wide with him again", which is quite classy when there's a two-year-old on a child seat behind you, who would be quite inconvenienced by me being pulled off the bike, which would then fall over. Unfortunately, I wasn't wearing the hatcam, but shall email the polices the information just in case this particular aggressive tube ever crosses my path again and deems me to have become wide a second time.
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K88 GRM -> 2006 Astra, so it's a personalised plate (or a ringer...)
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Any chance that Graham was around 24 years of age?
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Cycling to the cinema from toll cross, outside cuthberts and loudons, car in front starts to signal left to pull over but does so very incrementally, I move out a tiny amount to go around the car, suddenly feel a presence up my bum and it's a Smart Car who thought that he would overtake and that somehow I wouldn't be there anymore. He was not very impressed with me although I've no idea where I was meant to go. I'm assuming I was meant to just smash into the back of the car that was signalling.
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Ah! You're one of those cyclists Helen Martin was on about, smashing into cars willynilly!
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I had the pleasure of the close attentions of SF54TXC, hackney carriage number 485, tonight.
Heading from Picardy Place roundabout towards Broughton Street there are two lanes marked on the traffic, with the left hand land clearly marked as the one that cedes right of way to the right hand lane as it filters in. So, I'm in primary position in the right hand lane riding towards the (red) traffic lights. SF54TXC, perhaps exhibiting the deep-set insecurity and need to secure status in society through his car betrayed by his personalised numberplate, decides that, against all the available evidence, actually *he* has right of way and procedes to squeeze me towards the barriers on the right.
I acknowledged his manoeuvre with a shout of "What's your f'ing problem?" and he gets to enjoy the 600 flashing lumens that I directed into his rear-view mirror for 30 seconds while we wait for the lights to change. Just a shame he didn't have a fare at the time.
Seriously, if this fool is the standard of "professional" driver that Edinburgh Council let have a taxi licence, then there's something very amiss. I take it they don't have to pass a psychometric test that weeds out the pitiful creatures who need to assert themselves through their driving?
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Was the Black VW Golf heading East along Melville Drive.
Had to be rescued by Mrs Baldcyclist this morning, rear gear cable snapped. Just dropped bike off at the Bike works, turning right onto Melville drive and I hear the sound of a horn and catch sight of the Golf - which has just gone straight through the red at 30 mph - so slam brakes, really close!
At the next lights he gets out of his car and apologises profusely, the sun is bright apparently.! Anyhoos, no harm done at least, although there was a cyclist going onto Meadows from the cycle lane who would have sh*t herself.
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Hang on, he blasts the horn at you because he can't see? Ah well, at least he apologised for it.
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LBP did a tweet this morning about the low sun causing driver visibility problems this morning. It's not exactly unexpected, is it.
Nothing like driving (or cycling) to the conditions - if you can't see if your turn is clear, might as well pile through regardless!
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Heading out to Ikea yesterday evening the FirstBus which overtook through a pinch-point was pretty much expected after I saw it coming up behind me. At the first Midlothianic roundabout after going underneath the bypass a dingbat in the right-hand lane decided to go in front of me to cut across to take the B702. On the way back someone waited until there were two cars coming in the opposite direction heading down towards the Scotsman roundabout before overtaking. Finally, a roofing-van came way too close as I was passing some sticking-out left-turning cars heading onto London Road. I'll need to check the video but I suspect it might have been the same roofing-van which passed way too close at a pinch point on Restalrig Road a few months ago, which either implies a consistently bad style of driving or that he recognised me from when I waved at him the first time.
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Was the two cars who overtook me while I was proceeding cautiously over road humps, the second one of which appeared to get quite close to a cyclist coming the other way. Oh yes, I was driving a car at the time.
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Cycling up Wester Coates today (and I am sorry to put this on this thread). A cyclist on a hardtail mountain bike with a green rucksack, mounting the pavement to get through red light at the junction near the Sainsburys.
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there's a rubbish cycling thread that pops up every so often. also a good driving one!
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I wasn't on my bike last night but I had an interesting taxi ride up Liberton Brae.
The taxi driver proceeded to put a head torch on so he could read through a sheaf of papers on his passenger seat. I asked him to leave the paperwork for another time and he said 'what paperwork?'. Eh the papers you're currently reading through while driving. He stopped but not before wobbling in and out of the bus lane as he put down the papers and took his head torch off.
I've now written to the Licensing Department and City Cabs, his firm. Lets wait and see what they say.
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brought by SL11 ONK heading west along A8 about 730pm tonight at Wester Coates, Iam about to turn right up wester coates road, look round to check, young lady driving the above car totally engaged in phone call, phone to ear. signalled right and signalled for her to stop phoning.
She looked comfortable driving this route, suggests a be aware memo for us.
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Small silver hatchback S*05 *WD who despite me taking a very strong primary on the mini-roundabout at the Jewel tried to overtake me anyway and missed my back wheel by centimetres. He then wound his window down to tell me to move over and I called him rude names. Then a minute later I was unnecessarily overtaken at a pinchpoint by a Lothian & Borders police patrol car.
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1: Robert Wiseman delivery van on Restalrig Road. There's usually one stupidly-parked on a pavement build-out outside a shop but today it set off just after I went past it and overtook me going through the next pinch point. Captured on hatcam, so I'll see what their customer services are like later.
2: As I was going east across the Cowgate/Grassmarket roundabout an impatient tube was overtaking a cyclist whilst going across it in the other direction.
3: Impatient van who seemed to be seriously considering overtaking me going along the Grassmarket even when there was nowhere for him to go between me and the vehicles in front.
4: Impatient car doing the usual thing of staying in the straight-ahead lane along Lothian Road only to swerve into Rutland Place without slowing. Not caught on hatcam.
5: Impatient car who overtook me on Rutland Place despite me sticking to the middle of tthe lane to avoid the worst unseated setts. Unfortunately my rear mudguard snapped at a pothole in Rutland Square so I was unable to follow and scowl at them in case the light found a way of getting tangled in the spokes.
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The silver saloon which decided to overtake me as I was going down Path Brae in Kirkliston!
I had taken primary right slap bang in middle of road as I am doing near 30 mph and I really don't want anyone overtaking me there!This guy of course knows better, overtakes me at less than a foot and Im then forced towards the kerb just before the left hand bend at the bottom of the hill because he pulls in because of an oncoming car.
This leads to the sort of fun where were both going at 30mph and I'm now too close to the kerb, and too close to him on my right and not being able to brake because the road is wet, you know THAT kind of fun.
Anyway we somehow managed to miss each other, and on the straight I may have remonstrated disapprovingly at him, I may have swore too!
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Car pulls adequate but impatient overtake on me as I'm heading west along West Preston Street towards a red light. The driver stops in the ASL to make sure I don't get in front of him again. I contemplate going in front of him anyway but decide against it and just stop right behind him and mess with my rather bright front light in a petty fashion. We both turn right into Causewayside. Car then blantantly runs the red light to make the left turn onto Melville Drive.
None of which would be worth reporting if it were not for the fact that the car had a sticker with "R U 2 Close?" in its back window. Get your own house in order before criticising other people's road use, please...
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Just to say - the taxi company has suspended the taxi driver I complained about 10 days ago. So sometimes things actually happen when you write to head offices!
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nice one lezzles.
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Well done, lezzles.
It seemed to me that the whole motoring population was in a hurry this morning. Despite holding a good 22mph along Colinton Mains Rd today I was being hounded by the driver behind me. Eventually I dropped out of primary position to let them past, a bit before a pedestrian crossing. Well the driver only floored it, overtook me, and immediately turned left into a driveway!
The next driver behind me got a face full of extremely aggressive primary position, but it was a waste of adrenaline because they turned off before the roundabout.
Further on in my commute I ended up stationary in a queue with a car transporter stopped behind me. The truck driver decided not to wait, pulled left out of the queue into the bus lane and drove off, nearly clipping me with his drawbar trailer. I swear the gap was less than six inches.
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Must be something in the air, about half six this morning I was coming down the hill from Gillespie crossroads towards Colinton when a large white boxbody van (name something like Pattisons?) decided to overtake me on the left hand bend, gained him so much I had to brake for him asd he slowed for the right turn over the Bridge, of course he went away from me up the hill and was just climbing out of his cab to deliver at the deli when I passed him.
Clearly well worth it all for the tens seconds advantage (rolls eyes)Posted 12 years ago # -
Another delightful encounter with Glasgow First buses. Single decker overtook me, placing him head on with a traffic island. Pulled left, requiring a solid handful of brake from me to avoid the back of his bus swinging in.
The light 50m ahead was red.
This did give me the chance to pull up to his cab and ask politely (no, honestly!) what the point of his manoeuvre was. He slid the window shut and stared vigorously straight ahead, so I wrote a most enjoyable email to First instead.
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