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Today's rubbish driving...
(11258 posts)- Started 12 years ago by Stepdoh
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Heading uphill on Comiston Road, I was close passed as I passing a parked car. I made my feelings known verbally.
To their credit, the driver then stuck their hand out the window and waved in apology. They did so using the well known "Peace" V-sign gesture, although they did seem to be using an unorthodox "back of the hand towards the observer" technique.
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Turnip overtaking rashly and with no space somewhere around Mountcastle just before a pinch-point, with someone else doing exactly the same at the Craigentinny Avenue/Wakefield Road junction, except they overtook and went to the right as it turning right only to then relatively sheepishly turn left, overtake with enough space then turn left again a bit along.
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Car/something collision on Queensferry Road earlier. Looks as though a driver coming out of Craigleith Crescent had hit someone on the main road. Ambulance and police in attendance. Several people on bikes talking to police etc in the middle of the road. I was driving and not able to see much (not rubbernecking, honest!) but I see that the buses through that area were diverted for half an hour or so.
I hope that no one has been badly injured...
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Not the same incident as there was a bus involved:
https://twitter.com/ly_violetrose/status/1289896923814457345?s=21
Out food shopping today, saw a poor cyclist lying in the road in front of a bus (Queensferry Road) and the police and an ambulance had just arrived so traffic was diverted. Hope they were okay, not nice to see.
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Oh goodness. Well maybe it was; as I said I was driving and couldn't see much. Maybe bus was blocked from view by ambulance or something... I'd be a terrible witness.
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The video of that is here: link to tweet, which contains swearing.
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Cycling Scotland should use that for next year's campaign 'Drive Home After Nine Proseccos And You Could Get Six Points On Your Licence and a Telling Off.'
Share the road.
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Wasn’t even going fast (which is common on that road).
Hope CCTV camera is good enough to get numberplate.
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Hope CCTV camera is good enough to get numberplate.
They stopped/were stopped after they hit the second car. Driver arrested.
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@Stickman: I think that "cyclist lying in the road in front of a bus" does not necessarily mean the cyclist was hit by the bus. It's possible that what LivM saw was the same incident e.g. if the car emerging from Craigleith Crescent had taken the cyclist out and left them lying in the road, and the bus had just managed to stop in time to avoid something that doesn't even bear thinking about occurring.
But we're unlikely to know one way or the other until a clearer report emerges. I've not seen anything on the EEN web site (not that it's at all easy to find anything on the EEN web site these days, swamped as it is with clickbait nonsense, and being limited to five articles a week) or on the BBC News' Edinburgh Fife & East page.
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Hope CCTV
They could sell truckloads of these.
Apropros of the Granton crash, I'm amazed, yet sadly unsurprised, that the driver's first thought was to get away as fast as possible.
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Three year old dies after being hit by car. Today in Dunfermline
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@cocoshepherd
Spotted this on the news, how terrible.
The poor driving of four tons of metal has killed two children and two cyclists (if rumour on the first cyclist true) in close succession
Yet people want to deny what seems obvious to me that these days driving should really be saved for only very essential journeys.
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Heading north past Summerhall, the lights at the Melville Drive junction turned red. So the transit van driver behind me accelerated, overtook on my right, then cut over to the left hand lane.
As I waited in the ASL, they then decided that they should actually be going straight on, so pulled into the ASL on my right. When the lights went green, they accelerated quickly to make sure they weren't stuck behind me for more than 5s...then pulled over and parked 200m later.
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Two true stories. Tangentially related.
When I was working at university, I shared an office with a three colleagues, one of whom was named Ming and was from China (oddly, he later appeared on Dragons' Den). Ming came back from lunch one day and said 'What does "rancour" mean?'. We helpfully offered some suggestions and may even have consulted that actual dictionary in the office (this story pre-dates Google). We said that it meant something like 'ill will' or 'dislike'. 'Ah', said Ming, 'that makes sense. A tramp asked me for some money just now, and I said no. He shouted "rancour" at me'
Cycling through Currie this afternoon, I was passed by an Audi estate. It had been behind me for a couple of minutes, but kept its distance. It passed considerately, at moderate speed and giving plenty of space. After it had passed, a shirtless male leaned out of the front passenger window and made an obscene rhythmic gesture at me. No idea why.
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My Chinese mate Shao went to Methil on a whim and stopped for a pint in the roughest boozer he could find. Utterly genial and charming guy, just got chatting with the locals.
At one point the whole pub had to surround him to prevent a Qigong fight breaking out. Once they'd calmed him down they explained that 'me old China' is a term of endearment. Shao just smiled and resumed the previous conversation. Guy was a genius on many levels.
If anyone looked at me and thought of pleasuring themselves I'd take it as a compliment?
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Britain's first 'Dutch-style' roundabout closes after car ploughs into beacon
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Driving in my automobile. Two lanes of traffic sitting still. So a guy behind, keen to reach his hotel room, drives up the pavement in order to turn left into Travelodge here.
Like a rat up a drainpipe.
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You might actually find that they were not going to the hotel, but cutting through the hotel grounds to skip the junction...
That seems to be a "shortcut" some particular drivers have found useful...
Robert
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They put a barrier on that so heavy was the traffic. I guess the barrier may have been breached.
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Today a Paul Meikle plasterer van went through a red light on Bruntsfield Place - nobody on the crossing and driver not on the phone. I was waiting and shouted and later it pulled over and apologised - genuine mistake it seems... which happen - I know I've made plenty of errors.
Seems incongruous on this thread, but kudos to the reaction from presumably Paul Meikle - I was anticipating a row but it was the opposite. If more folk were able to accept they've made mistakes like that the roads would be a much more harmonious place.
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They put a barrier on that so heavy was the traffic. I guess the barrier may have been breached.
At least 3 times in 10 years according to the streetview history. It's like playing a game of peekaboo.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.927002,-3.166164,3a,75y,317.66h,75.79t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sEeRQtsIHMSaq-47RpHtL8g!2e0!5s20180501T000000!7i16384!8i8192
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Schools are back and so am I, sporting a fetching Follow-Me tandem instead of the old shonky tagalong known to canal path regulars. Unfortunately this also means negotiating the King's Theatre junction with a child attached. Couple that with the usual standard of driving in the rain and today's school run featured a white van attempting, and aborting, an extremely optimistic overtake on the approach from Gilmore Place when I refused to yield primary in favour of the puddle otherwise known as the cycle lane. Unclear what the hurry was since we were going to make the green light, so the holdup was limited to seconds not minutes.
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Driverless cars in news today......
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More likely to stick to speed limit?
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Can’t be any worse than cars with drivers? (Note there are lots of good drivers too)
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Waiting at the junction at the top of Kirkgate to turn right towards Easter Kinleith and thence Clubbiedean reservoir, I witnessed the driver of a black Nissan approaching along Harlaw Road from my left decide to overtake a cyclist just here. As the cyclist pointed out to them in fairly blunt language, it's a blind corner. And, as it turned out, he was going straight on whereas the driver was going left. So basically, a left hook at a blind junction. Nice.
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