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Today's rubbish driving...
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Posted 3 weeks ago #
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Generic callousness rather than specific this time:
“SUV buyers undeterred by warnings of risk to pedestrians, UK study finds”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/20/suv-risks-warnings-road-safety-buyers-uk-study
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
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The findings indicate that if governments want to reduce the number of large, dangerous vehicles on the roads, it is likely to require financial penalties, according to the psychologists at Swansea University who led the research.
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Er NO
IF Govs want to do anything they need to be banned in current form or (minimum) reclassified with much stricter driving test
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A series of studies have shown that sport utility vehicles (SUVs) and similarly oversized domestic vehicles such as pickup trucks are more dangerous than standard cars for pedestrians and cyclists. Much of the risk comes from their higher and blunter front ends.“
THIS IS NOT NEW
Remember bull bars?
At least they were banned
Posted 2 weeks ago # -
In a similar vein:
‘Carspreading’ could lead to extra 2,600 crash deaths a year by 2040, study finds
Analysis shows cars in Europe have grown longer, taller and wider every year since 2000
The increase in size, which leaves people more likely to be killed in a crash and increases emissions that hurt lungs and heat the planet, has progressed at a roughly steady rate for two and half decades even as family sizes have fallen, the campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E) found.
Car bloat is frustrating drivers, too, with cities expected to lose 8.5-14% of on-street parking by 2040 if the historical trend continues unchecked, the analysis found. London and Berlin are each predicted to lose about 100,000 parking spaces.
The findings come as research shared exclusively with the Guardian shows potential SUV buyers are undeterred by warnings that they are more likely to kill pedestrians.
The authors recommended capping bonnet heights and car widths, changing taxes to discourage people from buying bigger vehicles, and tightening vehicle standards so they considered the visibility of young children from the driver’s seat.
(Wasn't Gembo suggesting a campaign against large cars at some point in the past? I don't seem to be able to track that down since the search function appears not to, er, function.)
Posted 1 week ago # -
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Campaign Against Long Cars (CALC) - and wide
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citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19496
“search function appears not to, er, function“
Sadly true
Gone for ever
Have to rely on favourite browser/search engine
Posted 1 week ago # -
That's the one.
Turns out I posted on that thread myself not all that long ago. Duh.
I did try an online search but must have mis-spelled something. It returned a lot of CCE threads but not that one. Two excuses: 1) I was doing it on the phone, which doesn't like my fat fingers, and 2) gin.
Posted 1 week ago # -
The missus was pedestrianising along Princes Street this morning when she witnessed the driver of a car transporter with twelve cars on board attempting to turn left from Princes Street (where he had absolutely no business to be) in to the Mound. He was struggling with the tight turn, while also sounding his horn at pedestrians who had the cheek to cross the road in front of him when their the green man was illuminated. Meanwhile, he was blocking the approach to the junction, much to the obvious annoyance of westbound bus and taxi drivers.
ISTR Gembo complaining recently about massive car transporters in the New Town (I tried Google but it once again failed to find what I was looking for.) Maybe it was one of those, with the driver in this case handicapped by both an inability to navigate, and to observe road signs.
Posted 5 days ago # -
Regent Road seems to be a very common place for car transporters to be parked overnight.
I assume the driver was supposed to turn on to North Bridge, but messed up and tried to take the first seemingly available exit.
Posted 5 days ago # -
He would have driven past a "no entry except for trams, buses, taxis and cycles" sign in the process.
It seems unlikely that a satnav would have tried to send him that way. He'd probably have been better off turning right on to St David Street, along George Street and then down Hanover Street to access the Mound (any half way decent satnav should be able to work out that route). And it would be no more wiggly for accessing Market Street than going over North Bridge, which would also require negotiating a pretty tight turn in to Market Street from either North Bank Street or Jeffrey Street.
Posted 5 days ago # -
Maybe we need a CALCT (Campaign Against Long Car Transporters)?
Where's the nearest car dealership to Princes St anyway? Seafield Road? I think there was some small niche/expensive ones out Roseburn way but not sure if they still exist..
Posted 5 days ago # -
There's an Aston Martin service centre on Russell Road, in the old Speedy Tool Hire unit.
Not sure why car transporter guy would be going up the Mound to get to or from there though...
Posted 5 days ago # -
@mcairney We do the drive me frickin crazy driving down Royal mile putting. Rental cars in station car park every frocking day. Should be put at Straiton.
Posted 4 days ago # -
Didn't consider they might be replacing rental cars for Waverley Station. Agree that there must be a better way of replenishing their fleet than having a massive car transporter driving around the city centre!
Posted 4 days ago # -
There's a Genesis showroom (the luxury car brand, presumably no relation to the somewhat more utilitarian bike brand) on Multrees Walk behind St James
Posted 4 days ago # -
Tesla started on Multrees Walk. Score moving to the more utilitarian Newbridge.
Posted 3 days ago # -
Apparently you can fit £1.3m of heroin in a car transporter but you get arrested at Lockerbie
Posted 3 days ago # -
Just in case you assumed g made it up -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjwg8nqg4vzo
But are the streets any safer??
Posted 3 days ago # -
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A dad who drove on the Edinburgh city bypass while more than three times over the drink-drive limit and arguing with his wife on the phone has been granted a licence to sell alcohol.
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https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/dad-who-drove-edinburgh-bypass-34226754?
Posted 3 days ago # -
I was close passed by a driver on London Road this morning, which was bad enough that I'm considering testing out the new police reporting system.
I was in the right hand lane, as I was going straight on and the left lane is for left turns only. The driver passed me without leaving the lane, maybe a foot of space. Bad enough but itself, but the two hands on the phone and none on the steering wheel were what really, really annoyed me.
Update on this from the previous page.
I reported to the police, who sent a notice of intention to prosecute to the car's registered keeper, who told the police that a relative was driving. Six months later the police were unable to ever speak to the alleged driver, as they simply didn't answer the door when police visited. They are apparently sought for a number of unrelated matters, but none of which were of a nature that the police could/would force entry to their house.
I don't believe that the relative was actually driving (based on gender and age). The police officer dealing with it told me that, had they been able to speak to the relative, then either the relative would have been charged with careless driving or the owner would have been charged with failure to identify the driver.
As six months have passed since the incident, the issue is now time barred and no action will be taken against either the registered keeper or their relative.
Something's clearly wrong in the system here.
On the other hand, the DESC reporting system worked relatively well. The process is smoother and simpler than it used to be. It's not as smooth and simple as the portals available elsewhere in the UK, though.
Posted 1 day ago #
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