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(11258 posts)- Started 12 years ago by Stepdoh
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2 idiots today both close to my house!
First one, one of these numbskulls that can't turn right properly. He was turning right from Caroline Terrace on to the Clerwood access road, literally all over the road. In fact if I had been in my car instead of on the bike he would have crashed into me.
Second one, an entitled range rover driver on Caroline Terrace who felt he shouldn't slow down for any pesky cyclist despite parked cars on his side of the road and there not being room for both of us on my side of the road.
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“there not being room for both of us on my side of the road“
So
What happened next??
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I had to slam on my brakes and stop, he stopped too finally and I asked if he had a problem with his eyesight. I was near enough up on the pavement though having been bullied out of his way!
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A driver overtook me a bit too close to a blind bend for my liking.
Which was bad enough, but I realised as they passed that they had a cat sleeping on their shoulders.
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Tiger Woods driving at 87mph in 45mph zone at time of car crash, police say
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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/apr/07/tiger-woods-car-crash-causes-los-angeles-golf
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Weird one: woman driving black car on Gorgie Road. Comes to a halt due to other traffic stopping front of her. Takes ages to get into the right gear to get going again, drives away slowly and then turns left while indicating right. Most odd.
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LA millionaire’s son, 17, charged after killing woman with his Lamborghini
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An archetypal left hook whilst I was cycling up Mayfield Road this morning appeared to be prevented by the car passenger berating the driver for their stupidity.
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Just a passing observation but the speeding epidemic from lockdown 1 appears to be back with a vengeance. Driving along Harry Lauders Rd at 40 mph and ended up with a Merc SUV rapidly closing the gap even though we were about 400m from the junction. At said junction I then had a Vauxhall Insignia racing me at the lights. I entertained them up until I hit the 50mph speed limit at which point he continued accelerating into the distance. Ditto the Merc. Then coming off at the slip road at Wallyfird I had a car in the LH lane fly past me and they just about managed to stop before ending up on the adjoining road
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This afternoon I was in the car on Westfield Road heading for Aldi. The current road works on Gorgie Road mean that not many vehicles at a time are getting through the junction so a queue has built up.
After a few cycles of the lights a driver in front decides to pull out into the opposite lane then goes through the red light and turns right onto Gorgie Road.
A few phases later and I get to the front just as the lights are changing to red. The driver behind me decides that stopping isn’t for him, pulls out and then goes through the red light even through traffic on Gorgie Road has started moving. Probably one of the worst bits of driving I’ve ever seen.
When I pulled into the Aldi car park I saw that he had parked in the disabled bay right next to the door.
Did I mention it was a BMW?
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Far more disgruntled-driving people whizzing along my street possibly related to this:
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/suspect-item-found-scots-recycling-23961212
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Someone drove their Porsche into a house at Hunter’s Tryst:
https://twitter.com/obadiahmaguire/status/1386696045695016962?s=21
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Wow - overshot a roundabout, broke through a hefty garden wall, travelled another six or seven metres and hit the house with enough force to crack up its front face. Sometimes I think we all must be crackers, as we actually cycle amongst these things. Our safety dependent on the operators of two tonne vehicles not being distracted by the latest dashboard infotainment system.
I am well aware that the risks of cycling are far lower than those posed by inactivity etc. but just sometimes I get that cold shiver and think "What the hell am I doing here!"
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That roundabout is, of course, on a signposted cycle route.
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Overtaken in 20 zone by some bonehead in an articulated lorry today. I was already doing 20 on the bike so he had to break the speed limit to pass me, direct into path of oncoming car that stopped dead to avoid a collision. Bonehead pulled in sharp resulting in extreme close pass. Didn’t get his number unfortunately. He got a good view of my middle finger.
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Lothian bus "involved in collision with" Nissan Cashcow on Commercial Street
Not a lot of detail in the article (no surprise there*) but from the photos it seems pretty clear which vehicle was somewhere it shouldn't have been.
* The EEN piece about the attempted home invasion by a Porsche in Oxgangs consists of the police statement, a re-hash of the cancellation/re-routing tweets from Lothian Buses and the photos from the tweet linked by Stickman. This is "trusted, fact-checked journalism" apparently.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-56904691
Not what you want to read just after a bike ride. Hope his recovery is swift
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Heading north on Newington Road, there was a car in front of me, and then two buses in front of that. The first bus pulled in at the bus stop outside what used to be the Steamie. The second bus started to pull in, but there wasn't room to pullall the way in, so it stopped with the rear of the bus still in the main traffic lane.
The car driver decided to overtake, despite there also being an oncoming bus. They, somehow, managed to get through the gap without hitting either bus, but it was very tight.
Wasn't too dissimilar to this situation, but with the nose of the white bus in the bus lane.
The oncoming bus driver's face was a picture.
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Old guy in black smallish car speeding down Chalmers St towards me and other people on pedestrian crossing. got an earful from me and other pedestrians.
next I heard a bunch of car horns; sounded like he then pulled out into George IV traffic and pissed off them too.
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also the guy sat in car in front of our flat, engine running.
asked him to turn off the engine, he turned down his music.
"no, the engine".
Que? the ENGINE
< miming turning key >
ah! engine off.
felt a bit basil fawqtyesque
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Some people never get ‘it’.
(Or most other things.)
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For the second time in as many days I have had a close encounter with somebody trying their best to have a head on collision with a car coming the other way. Today’s lunacy happened on the bends just before Torquan heading to Stow. I’m doing 27 mph, so not exactly crawling along, car coming the other way about 50 yards down the road. You’d think that would leave very little time to overtake. Somebody tried nonetheless, once again forcing oncoming driver to do an emergency stop. I really must get my camera sorted again.
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Some really crazy driving in Corstorphine High Street earlier. I didn't go in the wee bit cycling lane just before Featherhall Avenue as there's a parked car in the disabled bay so the numpty in the Land Rover overtakes me by going round the traffic island on the wrong side of the road. Then he compounds his error by continuing to speed and bullies cars going West to give way to him instead of the other way round. A bit patience and everything would have been fine - he got stopped by a red light at Manse Rd so time saved absolute zero.
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Notice how this thread seems to be coming back to life again as restrictions are lifted? My latest rubbish driving experience was the numpty who nearly crashed into me and child — we were turning right out of Lonsdale Terrace — the driver of the car going south had correctly left the hatching clear for us to do so but the driver behind them had other ideas and revved their engine to go round them and turn into Leven Terrace, missing us by not very much. He clearly didn't see me but he wouldn't have seen me if I was in a car either, the crash could have been bad.
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@piosad: Notice how this thread seems to be coming back to life again as restrictions are lifted?
Almost certainly due to the massive step increase in car usage since they "stay at home" rule ended. I was astonished at how many cars were on the road yesterday when I was out between about 3pm and 4pm, and it's not all the school run (the pavements and parks were satisfyingly busy with kids walking home). And it was specifically cars: bus, van and lorry numbers have been back to more or less "normal" for some weeks, but car numbers seem if anything to be higher than ever.
On the plus side, I did see two cyclists using the new westbound lane on Lanark Road. They were exactly the kind of cyclist that the lanes are for: more or less normally-clad people (save for helmets and a bit of hi viz) on more or less ordinary bikes just going about their business. I was definitely the odd one out, in purpose-designed cycling clothing and riding a rather expensive bike with a Garmin on the handlebars.
(On the subject of the Lanark Road cycle lanes, I thought that the section of the westbound lane at its start, heading uphill away from the Inglis Green Road lights, had just about the most rubbish surface to it that I've yet encountered in an SfP facility. Which strikes me as a little odd, given that before it was turned in to a cycle lane it was basically a car park, which I wouldn't expect to have caused major wear.)
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