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stickyI can't remember who "Calm cyclist" on YouTube is, I remember it's someone here because I saw the video here.
Do they know that a compilation video channel has their clip used? If it's not with permission, you can issue a privacy complaint easily enough - the compilation channel is using ads, so they're making money of it.
https://youtu.be/GVx4Op2tAUo?t=533 [Starts at 7:59 if the timestamp link isn't working]
It was someone on here is recall correctly, think Calm cyclist was a new you tube handle they just used for that video
not while cycling, but yesterday while we were going around the Gogar roundabout. we'd misjudged our exit, so partner indicated right as we approached the exit we weren't taking.
the driver behind us took that exit, and blasted the horn at us. i'm not sure why. he wasn't next to us, was he planning to overtake us on the exit?
Several drivers heading east along Gilmore Place this morning whose lane was blocked by a road repair machine who simply moved into the other lane to pass it without any reduction in speed despite my attempts to cycle west.
@Murun Buchstansangur - Ah ha, that was it!
Rubbish driving this morning from the driver using both hands to text away at 8:45 while she drove past Liberton High School this morning. That'll be getting reported to 101 tonight. Pics: https://twitter.com/Lollercake/status/1140895637942210561
- Leith Walk
- blue transit
- left hook
- into side of van
my fault for "going too fast in the cycle lane'.
i am rule#2 sick of this.
@Iain. Hope you are OK.
Ouch. Hope you're ok and check the bike if it took a hit. Report it?
Yesterday as I went down Roseburn Gardens there were the usual drivers cutting the corner from Roseburn Place, which I’ve learned to anticipate. What was new was one of those drivers then pulling over right in front of me to get into a parking space on my side of the road without signalling. I don’t think he had seen me.
Yesterday evening, making a right turn from Hope Park Terrace onto South Clerk Street (at the Sainsbury's near the East end of the meadows), van driver decided to go through the very red light, as I was starting to turn.
When I shouted "It's a red light!" to him, his response was "I'll <rule 2> your kids!". Charming man.
[Warning, sweary]
Blonde, middleage woman in a red SUV, turned into Rutland street from Rutland Square, and shouted at me for being in her way... even though this is one way street and she was driving the wrong way. She did a big U-turn in front of Rutland hotel and parked next to it. About an hour ago.
Had one of 'those' mornings today, and I don't think it's a coincidence that for the first time in about 3 years I decided to take the most direct route to work. It's at least a mile shorter I think, and despite being really stop start, and often stuck in slow-moving traffic that was unfilterable, the time to work was about the same as the longer route.
Mountcastle Drive North
Overtaken by a young lad in a new Merc doing at least 40 (20 zone), swerving back in just before a car coming the other way.
Northfield Broadway
Overtaken by Lothian Buses no. 5, despite doing 18mph in the 20 zone, who roughly 3 seconds later indicated left to turn into the next stop.
Junction of A1 and Meadowbank Terrace
Filtered to the front of the queue only to find a white van in the straight on ASL.
London Road
Young lad in a Golf going through a red (so he could get to the queuing traffic ahead 10 seconds earlier - I passed him in the bus lane and left him behind).
Junction with Abbey Lane
Im in the bus lane, bizarrely guy in a blue Merc just WANTS to pass me in the other lane, but queueing traffic stops him, in the hatched box, blocking a taxi indicating to turn right (I hope the taxi driver saw my pitying look).
Top of Leith Walk to Picardy roundabout
Just a shambles. I have to say the signage / road layout / cone placements bear no relation to each other. Drivers all over the palce shifting lanes with a lack of indicating or properly looking.
Queen Street
What 20mph zone? (though kudos to a tipper truck driver who held well back as I crossed the tram lines, and realised there was a queue ahead making passing daft - I gave him a massive thumbs up).
Randolph Crescent onto Drumsheugh
Why is there an ASL for turning right, but not left?
Palmerston Place onto Glencairn
Traffic traffic traffic horns aggression.
Coates Garden junction
Yes Mr Large minibus driver, I 'was' going straight on when you just pulled out in front of me.
Roseburn
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! I mean, someone IS going to die at some point. ASLs abused, traffic everywhere at a standstill, any brief moment of clear road and the foot goes down. Actually made St John's Road seem relatively relaxed. Especially as someone wanting to turn right was being constantly prevented from doing so by traffic coming the other way, then had a bus stop alongside, so I could filter, but no-one else could get through, so I had half the length (past Hart's etc) completely to myself.
Next week I'm going back to the wiggly route!
@Willmington's Cow
Just a normal day on the roads then?
It's a daily mystery to me how this is considered an acceptable normal by society at large.
Black cab wrapped around a street sign at the corner of Haymarket Terrace and Coates Crescent. Police van in attendance.
Street sign probably wasn't wearing hi-vis.
Left work at 4pm yesterday, took the bus home. Egregious abuse of the bus lane at Slateford station - must have been at least 20 cars (genuinely no other types of non-PSV motor vehicle that I could see) in the bus lane ahead of the 4 that I was on. Also impeded ahead of us by illegal use of the bus lane was a 34 and the earlier 4. The 4 runs at roughly fifteen minute intervals; I know they don't always manage to stick to the schedules but that's hardly surprising when other motorists deliberately choose illegally to get in their way.
Not having been along that stretch of road at that time of day before, I suspected that something must be awry. I thought at first that the congestion was because SGN still had their emergency hole in the road at the bottom of Craiglockhart Avenue but no, it was just hordes of single-occupancy cars heading to Juniper Green/Currie/Balerno. So the only thing awry was the behaviour of the car users.
A prime site for an enforcement camera, I'd have thought. Could probably pay for itself in one afternoon with that level of offending.
Only road workers? What about anyone that goes within 50 metres of a road...
road workers say they have been forced to dodge missiles thrown from cars, including bottles full of urine, metal cans and eggs
They should close the road down entirely, until motorists can be shown to behave
The lady of a purple Quashqai* who charged into the nearest parking space, passing us just before we crossed the road - clearly running late - who then decided to reverse into me and my children (most likely without looking).
I shouted "HEY HEY HEY" as a warning, to which I got the standard "friendly apology wave". Aye, thanks very much. You nearly ran us over with your carelessness.
*Why would anyone debase themselves so much as to drive such a hideous monstrosity, with its limited rear vision, ugly shape and bloated looks?
Similar to this vvv
I once got hit by a cake thrown from a moving motor car as I walked down the road. I'm still trying to fathom that event.
There was something odd about the lady in a Quashqai this morning who was parallel parking in Leamington Road. I then realised that her car was facing the wrong way around in the one way street. She seemed genuinely surprised when I pointed out that she had driven past two No Entry signs and over the large NO ENTRY letters on the ground.
Seems the Quashqai also has limited front vision.
More of the usual speeding through Holyrood Park. I was doing 27 mph according to Strava.
Lothian Buses driver following approximately half a second behind me whilst I was going along Princes Street. I was doing 18mph, in the right hand lane to overtake stopped buses (but to the left of the left hand tram rail).
When I started waving my hand to tell them to back off they actually drove closer. Appalling driving.
EDIT: This is how close they were. I'm doing around 18-20mph here. Blacked out details just in case I am minded to report to the police later.
Bad day for Lothian. Buses yesterday... I was cycling along and overtaking parked (in the cycle lane) cars when a bus overtook me without giving me much more than a couple of inches. Terrifying. When he stopped at the next bus stop I told him he did not give me adequate space and was dangerously close.
He told me I had “veered out of my line” into his space and was “wobbling.”
No, I was occupying the lane, in front of him and he didn’t give me the correct passing distance.
Horrible man, horrible attitude.
https://twitter.com/osbertl/status/1143805546186858496?s=21
Drivers in Portobello getting out of their cars to move cones so that they can drive down a supposedly closed road.
@lorlane
Lothian buses are covered in CCTV and take driver standards seriously.
If you have the time and place or service number they will track down the footage.
@Frenchy I now regret not tweeting them about the driver of the 24 going south on lower Lothian Road - he followed a deliveroo bike about a metre and a half off the back wheel. I was on the top deck, front seat and could see the dude was trying to pull away but uphill, on a battered hybrid, with a delivery...
@IWRATS Thank-you. I did get the details (took a pic) so will report. The unsafe pass was one thing, the terrible attitude was unreal for a professional driver of a huge vehicle capable of causing serious injury...
I don't even know what he meant by me "veering offline." I'm a competent cyclist and the only veering I may have done would be around a pothole etc. Pretty standard.
Surely a cyclist "wobbling" is a reason to give *more* room when passing?
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