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stickyA fine upstanding member of the community there, Steveo!
I'd like to think he was an aberration in the RM but from the general standard of their driving I suspect he is more in the majority than the RM would like to admit.
ot: you twitter stalking me? :D
@Instography - I sent an email to the three main bus operators, Citylink, Stagecoach and Lothian highlighting the issues with their drivers and that junction (it's buses I have more of an issue with there as they swing past one after the other like a train!).
All three replied within 24 hours saying they would pass on my comments to operations managers/etc. Lothian also said they may carry out covert surviellance! All of them also said they'd be happy to look at specific examples (must remember to switch cam on going home tonight!!). Was impressed they replied so quickly and positively yet the cynic in me thinks...well, you know.
Went for a blast out into the hills around torduff reservoir in my lunch hour (didn't realise how bad the roads were up there - whoops!) but it was lovely and very enjoyable with the weather today.
Coming back in through slateford - classic snarl up - I clear it by filtering in the space down the left (hear a few honks). Head along past diggers. Get a touch of a false start due to a truck changing down so a touch slow off the marks there up the side of dalry cemetry. I hear a honk. But the car behind was going down onto the western approach so I kept primary.
Head up to dundee street and get honked at massively I'm assuming because I went through a light that JUST changed amber at the ped crossing. I couldn't believe someone would be that angry and assumed something was falling out my pocket.
Heading past the bottom of viewforth this guy comes flying by in a wee red thing flipping me the bird.
I chase him and pass him calmly in the one way system heading towards the lothian road at which point he uses the car to force me into the left filter lane before swerving right again. I chased again and asked whether he had a problem and if he wanted to talk (to roll down the window) he just shook his head and looked like an angry mole.
I was pretty mad at this point but felt I should just let it go. Ruined an otherwise lovely ride.
Of course if anyone bothered to maintain it and paint the white line...
@chdot, that's an Audi, when you buy an Audi, you buy the rights to drive like a pillock.
My TDR experience was being saved from a SMIDSY by virtue of the dreadful road surface on Cultins Road, which caused me to swing wildly out into the centre of the road to avoid a cavernous pothole just as a car pulled out of Cultins Terrace without looking. If I had been in even primary position, I'd have been under the car. As it was, I was by sheer luck about a foot to the right of it. I got the idiotic "I'm sorry I'm an idiot" wave and look of sheepishness...
Nasty run-in this morning with Mr Postcode Plumbers of Mayfield Road. It was at the traffic lights nearest his premises, the lights at the junction with Savile Terrace. In their wisdom the designers of the Low Quality Bike Corridor ensured that at that point a lot of cyclists heading towards town are gathered together in front of the traffic, then a few yards later are guided into a space which is too narrow for a group of bicycles and a car alongside. So what does Mr Postcode Plumbers do this morning, faced with a group of cyclists including a couple of young children and their mother? He goes alongside - a few inches away from me - then aggressively sounds a very loud horn.
Nothing worse than that, but that's bad enough in my book. Postcode Plumbers is close to where I live and was on my list for custom when I needed a plumber. No longer.
"Postcode Plumbers is close to where I live and was on my list for custom when I needed a plumber. No longer."
And maybe worth letting them know, and letting them know why.
Ive already been on their website and cutpasted the text of this into the contact email section..
Perhaps a few more would help get the point across.
RonnieJ
That Postcode plumbers guy is very anti cyclist.He uses the plumbers merchants across from my house. I had a run in with him when he tried to bully his van past me and my kids on Temple park cres with the horn blast and the hands waving only to get 20 feet up the road where he parked. He told me should be wearing the yellae jaikit and the rest of that cycling shite and I shouldn't be riding in the middle of the road with my kids or whatever they were.I told him where to go and what to do when he got there.
Sorry to hear that recombodna, sounds like your experience was worse than mine :-(
RonnieJ - thanks! Great - as long as I don't get ambushed by an angry plumber :-)
@ cc - this dude sounds like a bully, i very much doubt he has he stones to challenge anyone outside of his wee metal box, BUT if he does,just tell him I did it, and he is more than very welcome to take it up with me.
Nae really got spare time for idiots who bully though.
R :-)
He doesn't sound like a very good plumber, either!
Not today, last Thursday.
Heading west along Haymarket Terrace/W Coates entering the narrowed single lane section in primary position to find a private taxi immediately alongside. Some firm side window knocking forced pull back, just as well,as he then turned left down Devon Place to drop off passengers.
Stopped and challenged, his response was, I was not a lorry so didn't need that much space.
The lady and her young daughter in a Silver Vauxhall Corsa at the junction of Chester St and Palmerston Place waiting to turn right. Parked in the ASZ and 'creeping' forward. I decided to take primary in front of her and pointed out where she was parked.
Her daughter (looked around 9/10) then rolled down her window shouting 'everyone else does it!'. I decided to ignore this and went off when the lights changed at which point the car races past me banging the horn. What a great example to set her daughter!
Did my best to catch up heading down Belford Road but got stuck at the lights which they just nipped through.
Think I got it on my cam although yet to check.
Thought for a horrible moment you were scoring the daughter out of 10 there...
@cb - you need to be pretty impressive to get a 9 in my book!
Two incidents - one annoying the other almost wiped me out
1. small white lorry went through full red at toucan crossing on Marchmont Road/links, while on the phone...
2. as predicted (k'nik, i think), nearly taken out on Teviot place as taxis jumped back and forth over cycle lane. One pulled out from parked into lane of traffic and tried to turn right onto forest road, so taxi behind him (who had just previously pulled out himself) swerved back into the lane so as to try and get around him and go straight on to lauriston place.
Incidentally I was in full cycle chic mode - powersuit, heels, hair etc -- for both of these. would have made a great pic in the EEN if I'd gone splat.
Postcode Plumbers, I would not use them again as he also likes to charge you for driving around the city collecting stock.
I priced all the items and timed how long he was at my house 1.5 hours, charged me for 3.5 hours and overpriced the parts by £180. Never again. A new pump and thermal cutout sensor cost me £560 in total. Great service if you can afford it though. It was fixed in less that 24 hours.
My pal was the at the receiving end of two punishment passes and a tirade of abuse from the driver of a white van with Georgian Windows written on the side. He has written to the firm but so far, after a week, has not had a reply. The driver sounded very aggressive so please beware of anyone driving this vehicle.
Cheers
Colin
The female driver in the white KA on the m8. Her car ended up at 90 degrees across the outside lane and a van stopped behind her, the guys got out and helped push the car till it was out of the snow and pointing the right way again and off she went. Good effort by those guys as the outside lane would have been blocked for ages . I assume that the car spun due to the rutted snow on the lanes. Passed the car 1-2 miles later and noticed that she was on the phone as she drove past Harthill service station!! Unreal, you'd think after that you might drive with hands at 10 and 2 and a thousand yard stare, but nope some people just won't take a telling. makes me wonder if the car spun in the first place because of her being "distracted".
Perhaps someone could have a word with the driver of police van SN59 CEA and tell him that ignoring the ASL & obstructing the bicycle box at a red traffic light is not the right thing to do...
overtaking cars on melville drive this am in the slush. I was in primary because there was no space for overtaking and I was only 10 metres from, and travelling at the same speed as, the cars in front. Where did you think you were going? Also clean the snow off the roof of your car you muppet. (blue car - kids on board)
Would have been soaked if I'd not been in overtrousers and windproof when that eeeediot private hire cabbie just couldn't bear to drive at 15mph and instead drove right into the pile of slush in the centre of the road to overtake.
Later on, White Network Rail Van Man hung off my bumper, and from his visible mutterings apparently thought I should have been in the untreated bus lane instead.
From last Friday:
The other cyclist was very lucky not to have been taken out. The car just drove off...
going along melville st today, eastward, just cleared the mid section, one car is parked in the whole st kerbside, as i drew level with the only car in his way, a taxi very aggressively underpassed me, and was so close to me i could read his speedo, see his masonic ring and the hairs on his arm. Absolutely NO sane reason for doing so... madness.
Then onto rose st, chap in a minivan, kept pulling in and out of the left hand lane, then randomly decided to turn the whole vehicle round, without indicating once, as i got behind his van to go past, he started reversing despite having seen me indicate i wanted past. An interesting day so far.... R
Coming out of Gilmore Place yesterday evening. I want to turn right, so I get right into the middle of the road and wait for the oncoming traffic from Tarvit Street to clear. My light goes red, but there's a car coming towards me and I guess he is going to go. Then, behind him by a significant distance is another car. I assume he's going to stop, but just wait to see that he does, and am gobsmacked when he comes as well. Thankfully onthing started moving in the directions that must by now have had green lights until I was out of the way.
I used to think that junction was OK. Not any more. I've had several close calls through there. It needs a separate right filter for turning right out of Gilmore Place.
"I used to think that junction was OK. Not any more. I've had several close calls through there. It needs a separate right filter for turning right out of Gilmore Place."
I could not agree more, i avoid it like the plague now after one of my top 5 SMIDSY's there. Terrifying to think of even now....
R
@Fimm, that is becuase the light is still green coming out of Tarvit Street when your light has gone red. Bloody stupid phasing, but until you have seen it from the other side you just assume that the drivers are RLJ-ing, but they aren't. Lights at Ardmillan used to be the same - not sure if they still are.
Not so long ago Tarvit Street was shut for ages.
Unfortunately CEC didn't do any traffic counts/surveys to find how the traffic managed with this vital cut-through.
Of course it should look like this -
http://cyclelondoncity.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/quietways-if-you-want-to-know-what.html?m=0
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