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stickySimultaneously overtaken and undertaken going through the Liberton Road/Lady Road junction. Terrifying.
Once through the junction the undertaker moved into the right hand lane and the overtaker moved into the left hand lane, which was mildly amusing. Filtered past them both at the Gilmerton Road junction.
@frenchy ‘struth with a good getaway i think bricks might have been in order but if mafia cars then no
@Frenchy: That does sound terrifying.
The missus was out shopping and delivering food for her Mum this morning. (Not that she seemed grateful for it: complained that she didn't have enough room to put the contents of the extensive list she had e-mailed us yesterday. Aaanyway...)
About to turn right at the top of Craiglockhart Avenue, having waited beyond the stop line behind a couple of other cars while the green filter came on, her spidey senses started to tingle as a large black German car came barreling towards the junction along Glenlockhart Road. Now, bear in mind that the right turn filter only comes on when the light facing Glenlockhart Road has turned red, and the light facing Craiglockhart Avenue had actually just started to turn amber as she was about to make her turn. So the Glenlockhart Road light had been red for a good 10-15 seconds: no way did Mr Oh-So-Entitled not have time to slow down and stop safely - unless he had been blatantly ignoring the speed limit as well. Unfortunately the traffic light cameras at that junction only cover the Colinton Road approaches :(
Reported by Mr fimm's uncle in Englandshire: a three-car shunt on otherwise deserted roads...
An extremely high percentage of drivers are not paying attention and are just assuming there is nothing there instead of looking.
I was out very early yesterday and only encountered about 5 vehicles in 15 miles. However 2 of them came close to knocking me down. First driver was about 4 feet out of the junction before he stopped to give way and the worst was some guy who had stopped at Corstorphine hill to chat to folk started to pull out as I was passing him.
@Frenchy
That's a new one. Endless invention from our fellow burgers.
Walking east along Raeburn Place on Sunday afternoon, heard then saw a guy in a Dominos delivery vehicle laying on the horn as he barreled down Dean Park Place. Angry honking apparently because someone else had the cheek to be reversing slowly out of a parking place. He then drove OVER a large traffic cone at the junction (partially blocked by roadworks stuff) because he was looking back at the car he'd honked at, and then pulled out right in front of two bikes heading west on Raeburn Place.
Lovely. I'm sure he's a VERY safe driver at other times.
Got fined £60 for driving in a bus lane while taking essential supplies to vulnerable people. Root cause: didn't change the time on the clock in the car.
Funny though, no buses running but the fines still work. Good job money has been revealed as essentially little more than a fever dream.
Pretty sure you'd get that waived if you ask...
50% off for good behaviour. Too ashamed to ask for further leniency.
Council desperately needs your money
I had this thought too.
A police land rover thing, overtaking me as we approached the traffic-island pinch-point on Duke St by the inactive Tesco entrance, also inconveniencing a bus coming in the other direction. Fortunately either their windows were closed or they're quite accepting of their status as impatient morons as they didn't stop and arrest me for shouting back at them as they reached my shoulder.
Mrs Garto was keeping very good distance from cyclist through Currie. This caused a total Whanger in red Vauxhall saloon to overtake her in the wrong lane and overtake the cyclist. I indicated a sign which involved a fist and my forehead. Curiously this person remained just in front of us all the way to Gillespie X road at which point they turned down to Colinton whereas we progressed to chesser and Mrs Garto went into Markies whilst I remained in the motor reading The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano.
I received a welcome update from the Police today following an incident I reported a few months ago. A car was driven at high speed very close to a group of riders I was part of. The horn was blaring the whole time. The Police traced the keeper of the vehicle, who initially couldn’t remember if she or her husband were driving, but later agreed that it was most likely her. She has been charged with careless driving.
It’s unlikely that anything will now happen given the current situation, but I’m glad that it was taken seriously and I hope she now realises that her behaviour was unacceptable. I’m very impressed with the way Police Scotland handled this.
Cheers
Colin
That's good news Colin. Just wondering what sort of evidence you needed? I've not reported stuff like that in the past as have never had the evidence to prove it. I do have a go pro now..
Had a nice ride out through Musselburgh, Tranent and Dalkeith yesterday. Quiet roads and no problems apart from 10 minutes going through Tranent:
1) On the climb up towards the traffic lights at the A1 crossing, chap drives out of a track at the side with his phone clamped to his ear.
2) Horrible fast close pass on the way out of Tranent.
Worst one:
3) Approaching the A1 traffic lights, there's a car stopped at the red light, I roll up to stop behind it, and the driver of the car behind me blasts past me, past the stationary car and straight through the red light. Much honking and shouting from me and the other driver.
Colin, that's very encouraging.
DPD van driven the wrong way up the one-way bit of Wardlaw Terrace in order to turn on to the Slateford Road.
Normally drivers doing this are likely to be stuck there for a while - I wondered if this driver knew that they should be able to get out the top fairly easily at the moment...
Yes I think the driver anticipated quieter streets would allow a mental manouevre that would be total nuts in normal traffic conditions. I have done this from the pavement on a bike but you need to judge the lights correctly
The driving on Craigmilar Castle Road is entirely horrible. I think it's the trees. They see trees and go to sixty.
On Wednesday, a small silver car, driven by a middle-aged woman, that stopped at the red on Gorgie Rd on approach to Dalry Rd...
then blatantly just drove straight through the red.
One of my favourite bits in Nabokov's Lolita is at the end where, after killing Quilty (the funniest scene I have ever read, including the cat scene in Don Quixote) to indicate that Humbert is the complete inverse of everything good and true he deliberately drives on the wrong side of the road.
We may be approaching this level of moral abandonment in Edinburgh.
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Sorry for the delayed reply. I urged everyone in our group to report it and I took careful note of the time, place and as much detail about the vehicle as I could. I noted a lot of details at the time and reported it as soon as possible. I then had to give a statement at another police station, as did another group member. You need to be patient and persevere, and it’s vital to have corroborating evidence.
Cheers
Colin
I think it's the trees. They see trees and go to sixty.
very astute observation
One of those horrific Ford Ranger pickup monsters horsing down our street at about 40mph, 20 limit
And he had the gall to come back and do it again, even after I gave him a Paddington cold hard stare.
Pretty hairy in town today. Lower Granton Road in particular now a 50mph zone.
I was beeped by a police going downhill around Queen's Drive just past the Skelf exit on Saturday after I looked behind, saw and heard nothing and then distantly overtook the person on bicycle in front of me. Even if they had been hiding behind the copse a wee way up the hill they must have been going a bit over 20mph.
I know a mouse and he hasn’t got a house I don’t know why I called him Gerald (Syd Barret song Bike)
Local resident known as Gerald seems to have taken lots of photos of the ferraris, Mercedes and porches
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