@meepmeep I had same with chemists van on viewforth this morning. clearly could not figure out why I was annoyed with him.
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Today's rubbish driving...
(11330 posts)- Started 13 years ago by Stepdoh
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Gilmore Place for me. Most often they then go into the ASL, and the placement of the one there is awkward so I can't do my usual trick of stopping in front of them, and pulling off at 1mph
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It's not cycle-related, but if the car got into this position in the way described in the article, then this counts as slightly rubbish driving at Waverley...
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Alice Robertson (@alice_roberts0n) tweeted at 3:12pm - 1 Feb 13:Not a good day to park in the Edinburgh Waverley car park. http://t.co/eFcDX8LT (https://twitter.com/alice_roberts0n/status/297361689811247107)
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"Alice Robertson. @alice_roberts0n. Work in Edinburgh Council press office. Live in Leith. My views only."
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The guy yesterday cycling through Roslin Glen yesterday morning must have had a serious pair of cahunas. He was heading up the slope from the tight bend towards Roslin. Unfortunately for him, cars coming down the way were frustrated because they'd been stuck behind 4 plodding horses for oooooh about 4 minutes (a lifetime apparently) and he had held up a few white vans and cars coming the other way for about oooooh another 4 minutes. That is not a wide road to try and overtake a bike without waiting for a space.
I have to say I'd have been having kittens if I was him.
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The Tesco home delivery van driver yesterday on Drumbrae...mobile phone on one hand, other hand supporting his chin and...wait for it, steering with his elbows. Every little helps so they say!!
Looking for an email address on the Tesco website to report him but can only find phone numbers and post addresses (this is the 21st century???)
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(As mentioned above)
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"Mercedes owner avoids penalty" - other than being laughed at all over the internet, of course...
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"This whole story sound like it was made up to cover the bosses embarassment when they discovered that their so-called barriers were not in fact in the correct place to prevent the driver parking!"
From the comments. So-called barriers?
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As punishment for starting a contentious thread, I had to dive out of the way of motorists approaching a pinch-point too fast twice I'm couple of minutes.
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Particularly large numbers of poorly lit motorists tonight. One vehicle appeared to have both its main headlights out so that it appeared to be going backwards.
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Like many I was 'caught out' by the increasingly heavy snow flurry at the back of 6pm. Unlike many, my eyeballs are not equipped with windscreen wipers, and my hands do not run on 12 volts with five heat settings. It seemed that every single motorist was in a rush to get somewhere, and completely oblivious to the lone cyclist who was trying to maintain 20 of the motorists' precious miles per hour into the teeth of the gale.
Merino for the win, by the way.
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When it's wet and cold and dark and trying to snow, the last thing I want is someone hanging off my back wheel in their car as I move downhill at 25mph... Astonishingly aware of 'one wobble and I'm under his wheels'.
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And SN55 BKD number 3 bus was rather closer behind me than I'd really want a bus, going along Dalry Road about 6pm. Not up to Lothian Buses usual high standards.
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"rather closer behind me than I'd really want"
I've reported two in last year.
LB looked at the CCTV and agreed with me.
So, remember the time and report.
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Done.
Lothian Buses even have an option "cyclist" on their "contact us" form.Posted 11 years ago # -
Would be the Driving Instructor with a pupil at the wheel tootling along past Murrayfield with no lights on last night. I caught up with them at the traffic lights and pointed vigorously at their headlights (whilst mouthing the word in an exagerated manner as you do!)...both of them looking at me with glakit stares and open mouths like I had two heads.
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Pointless block by a van:
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Buffoon white van in holyrood park. I was driving from meadowbank end this afternoon, doing 20 in the zone.
I was fully aware of van right up my jacksie - he waited til the car park, and revved/overtook just on the zebra crossing - I chased him for a bit, then realised I was speeding myself. Drivers sometimes make me ashamed to be one.
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Y'know, Mr Focus, even if the lights had stayed green roaring past me towards a heavily pedestrian and near-a-school 90 degree junction just because 'it's a cyclist and I must get past' would have been stupid.
The fact they turned red, with a van ahead of us stopping at them, and you indicating right whilst alongside me on realising your error, just makes it look even more stupid.
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It suddenly occurred to me: a couple of decades ago I was Mr Rubbish Driver, doing all sorts of angry fast inappropriate dangerous nonsense in my car in the middle of town. Something about driving in town can do that to you when you're an Angry Young Man. These days I'm far more calm and middle aged and I pootle quietly along cycle paths to get to work. I hardly ever drive any more and I'm much happier.
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I do think cycling makes you, in general though not always, a better driver. F'rinstance, in my head now when I see a red light I think "Ah good, a chance of a breather".
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If you'll excuse the blatant ageism. I think getting older does help one slow down I feel in much less of a hurry than I did in my youth... Still ride like I'm late but at least I'm slower when I drive.
Though I admit sometimes having to remind my self to let off on the throttle when I actually am in a hurry, experience has taught me that going faster very rarely gets me any where any quicker. Although to be fair I knew that before I started driving. In short... Dunno.
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Today's rubbish driving by the (six) vehicles parked on the park-side verge at Drylaw has resulted in lots of mud dragged onto the path just south of the red metal Crewe Toll bridge. It's very slippy, even when going slowly.
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A first tonight, almost wiped by a sideways reverse.
Trundling down Bothwell Street, silver Merc in the normal traffic flow suddenly decides to parallel park....quickly, quick swerve to avoid offside front corner of merc, followed by some fine anglo saxon words.
He continues to try and park, unsuccesfully!! at a increasingly bizarre angle.
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SK52 WYX, Taxi no. 980: after appearing to be patient enough to wait three seconds for me to pass the end of the Restalrig Square-ish road he was emerging from he then started forward well before I was clear of his path, then accelerated as fast as he could in order to get past me before the keep-left-sign-traffic-island-pinch-point mere metres further along. He went off down Restalrig Road South so I wondered if I'd see him again at the Lochend roundabout, but did not, so assumed that it was a different taxi which was trying to jump the red light from the Meadowbank direction when traffic from Marionville Road had the green to go onto London Road. In case it wasn't I stopped after turning the corner into Abbey Lane, which allowed me to confirm the number plate and attempt to warn away the customer he'd stopped (in the ASZ of the junction) to pick up.
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Person in small car attempting to overtake me on approach to roundabout (narrowed by traffic island) appears to think that if you just drive onto the bit of the road the cyclist is using, the cyclist will disappear - at least this time I remembered that one of the points of Primary is to give you an escape space if required, so I slowed and swerved. Driver of small car continued on their merry way. Car behind overtook nicely once we were both through the roundabout.
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Today's rubbish driving was the person emerging from Oxgangs Avenue just as I was riding down Oxgangs Road North at the speed limit of 30mph.
I actually spotted the small black car in plenty of time, and was already fingering the brakes because this sort of incident has happened to me several times. True enough, they pulled out. What was 'oh, that cyclist is miles off' very quickly became 'oh, that cyclist is RIGHT BEHIND ME!' I was able to watch their head movements and at no point during their manoeuvre did they look to their left.
I had plenty of time all along Colinton Mains Drive to memorise the number plate, and then I promptly forgot it. It put a bit of a dent in my happy commute because I'd been tootling happily along the road and singing 'Sunshine on Leith' to myself.
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Big old red Volvo P626 AUD, driven by an old man. He had the not-checking-to-his-right look of someone who was intending to steam right over the roundabout without even slowing despite my already being on it, illuminated by freshly-charged cells in my front blinky and the front dynamo light, in a position which clearly indicated that I was crossing it perpendicularly to him and already past the point at which I would have turned off down the road he was emerging from if that was where I had been going. As I was watching out for him I was able to come to a gentle stop clear of his path, well before he came to his skidding stop at a point where the middle of his driver's door was level with my wheel. NUMPTY BEWARE.
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B*tch who actually undertook me at Picardy Place roundabout in order to race to the back bumper of the car about 20 feet in front of me in the queue at the pedestrian crossing.
Moron who overtook between North Bridge and Leith Street in order to save no time whatsoever.
I hate them.
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