In London, the driver behind me leaned out of their window to shout at me about my lack of lights.
Perhaps if you struggle to see the lights on a Boris bike, you should reconsider driving in central London at night...
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Today's rubbish driving...
(11330 posts)- Started 13 years ago by Stepdoh
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Man jailed after blaming speeding ticket on fictional Frenchman
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I was close passed by a CEC van this morning. It's on video; I was wondering if and how to send it in.
Also on video today was a driver turning left from Myreside Road into Colinton Road, cutting the corner in the process and nearly hitting a family of three. I exchanged my surprise with them, once they'd reached the relative safety of the footway on the far side of the pedestrian crossing, at which they had been waiting.
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I had a CEC lorry go through a red light at a ped crossing in front of me this morning. He had mistaken the lollipop man walking off the crossing for his signal to go.
I mentioned it to him at the next junction and his was very apologetic, so I won't be reporting.
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Yesterday morning I had a range Rover attempt an overtake and left turn in front of me Right on the raised table exiting Baird Grove onto Balgreen Road. I think my slapping dented his rear passenger door. He was incredibly apologetic afterwards, apologiesed profusely for his stupidity and asked if I was ok.
Hopefully, he'll drive a bit more safely and courteously around cyclists from now on.
This morning an LRT driver pulled his single decker out from the temp bus stop in the middle of the Haymarket Roadworks right in front of me. needed all my braking power to stop slamming in to the back of it. The company have been emailed.
Does anyone else feel safer and have fewer 'incidents' during the dark winter commutes?
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so I won't be reporting.
I, however, will be. I had another close pass this morning (different vehicle), which was one too many in two days for me to let it go. I spoke with Police Scotland this morning.
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Lovely early evening cycle around the back roads of rural Dumfries and Galloway yesterday. Only slightly marred on the way home by the [rule 2] in some sort of giant Volvo who took exception to the sedate progress of a string of classic cars on some sort of a jolly, and started to overtake them, even though we were coming the other way and the road wasn't wide enough for everyone. Fortunately the other half was alert enough to get onto the verge as the [rule 2] swung out.
I suppose it's reassuring in some sense to know that some drivers behave like that even with other cars not just around cyclists ...
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Morningside Grove today at 13:15. Young lad (maybe 14 or 15) in hi viz jacket heading south and passing the end of Craiglea Drive. No 23 bus overtakes him and then pulls in right in front of him at the bus stop. That’s a distance of about one bus length. He could so easily have let the lad get ahead. The lad himself had to stop. He did not look overly upset but maybe he is just learning that these things happen if you are on a bike. Can’t decide whether to report to LRT as I was not directly involved but what a great way to encourage our kids to be more active.
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Can’t decide whether to report to LRT
Please do - the driver needs to be reminded that this is unacceptable.
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Whilst driving along Clerk Street in Loanhead this evening I was tailgated by the driver of a Range Rover (SG58 BJX), despite me doing 25-30mph. Very not fun when the dog is in the boot. I got a dirty look from the driver when I let them past at the roundabout near McDonald's.
Lots of people doing lots of pointless tailgating on the bypass as well. I don't understand - do they really think people will drive faster when you follow them so closely?
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I'm afraid that tailgating prompts my 'lost tourist' driving style.
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The council van, going up MMW, including the bit down to half-width by the uni works, when it would surely have been possible to reach what they were heading for by going round the roads.
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The mind boggles - your windscreen is shattered so you pursue a lorry for a mile and a half with impaired ability to see ahead..she should be charged with dangerous driving based on the admissions in this article:
"She said: “I just kept following the lorry, I was hammering the horn and trying to attract his attention but it felt like I had been completely ignored, there is absolutely no way that he didn’t hear me.” Lanna continued: “I keep thinking about what could have happened if I had any of my kids in the car, how dangerous that could have been for them, it is just absolutely horrible to think about.”
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Community volunteers with speed guns strike back at motorists
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@chdot, interesting article, with some degree of balance giving the irate motorists' insults towards the vigilantes/community activists as well as the Nudge data (just being sent a letter without a fine can apparently influence speeding drivers?)
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Slow hand clap to the unnecessarily macho 4x4 pickup truck driven by someone working for an Edinburgh based interior design firm (the owner?) who just had to perform a U-turn on Waterloo Place this morning, mount the pavement (on double yellows) to drop off a female passenger (partner?) before proceeding to block the ASL and both lanes diagonally heading west.
If i ever require an interior designer, it won't be you lot!
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@crowriver - name and shame.
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@Iain McR, honestly can't recall. Something & something, y'know like a firm of solicitors or surveyors. Presume they were partners in the business. I'd recognise the name if I saw it again though.
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Really odd incident this morning filtering gently up the inside through the cars which were illegally using the bus/cycle lane on the east side of the meadows at around 9:12...Woman then pulled round the outside lane stopped her car and started shouting at me for frightening her child ...said I'd hit her car and 'she wasn't in the cycle lane' she said 'the car in front was and the van behind was but she wasn't. ...anyway the poor child sitting in the front seat did look confused (what age do children need to be to sit in the front seat? The driver then drove further towards the lights ...stopped on the outside lane exited her car with her mobile phone in hand... i cycled on ...
I checked my video later... she was in the bus/cycle lane, i didn't touch her and was very calm... so all incredibly bizarre... wondering if she hadn't had a run in with another cyclist earlier?
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Any evidence of her mobile phone use on your video? If so, send it to the police (who will likely do nothing).
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Nah I think she was going to take my photo ... i didnt see her using it ...
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My worst ever incidence of bus bullying this morning. So much so I'll be reporting it to plod as well as Lothian Buses.
After a series of tailgating and attempted overtakes starting at Willowbrae Road. I caught him again (in the ASL box) at Waterloo Place.
He clearly took great umbradge at me getting in from again, as just at The Balmoral he overtook and pulled in before he even passed me. He continued (at an angle ) to get the front of his bus as close to the pavement as possible despite me slapping the side of his vehicle very hard several times. Deliberately squashing me to the kerbside.
I parked myself in front of him, preventing his escape but my bloomin' phone kept trying to connect to his wifi, so i couldn't take his photo. I was a bit too flustered to turn my wifi off and start again!
It was a service 113 East Coast at 7am - if there were any witnesses out there...
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It was a service 113 East Coast at 7am - if there were any witnesses out there...
The bus should have CCTV. Make sure you ask to see it - worth asking as soon as possible as the hard drives only store a day or two of footage at a time. They might charge you £10 to see it.
You'll need to send them a paper form, but you should email them to let them know you'll be doing this, so that they can pull the video.
More info here: https://lothianbuses.co.uk/about-us/our-company/cctv-policy
The council also has a CCTV camera on the corner of North Bridge and Princes Street, and you should be able to go through a similar process to see if you're on that one.
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Cheers @ Frenchy
I contacted both Lothian and East Coast this morning and requested their footage.
Good shout re CEC CCTV.
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coming down Roseneath street onto Sciennes Road is always one where I cover the brakes as cars fairly regularly go straight over from Argyle place to Chalmers Crescent - often there are sightline issues there and I can absolutely forgive some protuberance but this morning the driver of a large Audi silver SUV decided to floor it across the junction while I was in the middle - luckily they emergency braked in time. On this occasion, I felt some justification in being a sanctimonious git and pointed at my eyes by way of advice. This did not go down well... apparently, a half-hearted shrugged apology atones for all sins. Who knew?
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Two minutes out of the house I get threatened at a double pedestrian-refuge pinch-point on Restalrig Road, to the extent of requiring a full-lung bellow. I decide to adjust my route to follow them. At the Sleigh Drive roundabout, a car with a bicycle wheel visible in the back of the boot is driven in front of me without the driver having looked first, so they got another fairly loud reminder to look properly - they appeared to immediately slow down, so were hopefully feeling suitably ashamed and were being more careful for the rest of their journey. The original pinch-point-ignorer (up with whom I have caught on Marionville Road) then skips through a red at Meadowbank/London Road to escape (and gets the green to proceed along towards Cadzow Place whilst I'm waiting), so I change my route again to go through the park, but appear to end up emerging from Abbey Lane just in front of them, though I was not certain enough to be able to turn round and frown at them.
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Drivers of Midlothian and East Lothian on this morning's extended commute. Passing on blind corners quite a bit and far too close. Not even sure a few of them knew I was there.
Didn't spoil my enjoyment of the ride overall. Mostly just sad watching them all sit in their cars at the start of such a lovely day.
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"Not even sure a few of them knew I was there."
I don't know whether I'd feel comfortable knowing the answer to this. Negligence or malevolence, which is easier to live with?
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