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Today's rubbish driving...

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  1. HankChief
    Member

    Was brought to you by the small silver car that went through the pedestrian crossing on red at 30mph yesterday morning. My 2 children and I were about to cross with the green man.

    I took comfort in the fact that the sun was directly in front of him and he hadn't scaped much of his windscreen, so he would have been treated favourably by the courts had he hit us. You can't expect ordinary drivers to slow down with the sun in thier eyes or scape all of their windscreen now can you...

    Absolutely incredible and frightening.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  2. fimm
    Member

    B@stard in white box van who decided to turn right out of my road at the same time as I did, thus forcing me to brake and get out of his way as I wasn't going to argue priority at the pinch point with him. Really agressive driving.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  3. Kenny
    Member

    I've had some week. Today, while heading up the dreaded Clermiston Drive behind another cyclist who was making sprightly progress ahead of me, a car which had been _desperate_ to get past me decided enough was enough, and it would squeeze in between us, on the basis that the space between the two bicycles was the exact length of their car. Check out on the video below how close it comes to hitting me.

    Want even better? Watch the video to the end, and you'll see the car parked a full 5 seconds earlier than it would have been, had it merely waited.

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    Posted 10 years ago #

  4. Snowy
    Member

    That's entirely understandable.

    His journey was so much more important than yours.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  5. 559
    Member

    @mkns, what time was that? If it was about 715am ish front cyclist might have been me.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  6. Kenny
    Member

    No, I think we go opposite directions from each other. This was in the evening, would have been around 17:30.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  7. 559
    Member

    @mkns, Okay I did wonder, I passed a cyclist this morning heading up Clermiston Drive, and was conscious of a vehicle between at some point.

    I was thinking that driving in this area had got more considerate, apart from Drum Brae Terrace at Sports Centre class time.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  8. wingpig
    Member

    White Audi Y7 KJH took advantage of the presence of a police van in front of me to squeeze past on that narrowing bit of Dalry Road by Orwell Terrace last night.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  9. fimm
    Member

    MGIF chap had to overtake me and Boyfriend in order to get to a red light first. We'd have occupied the ASL in front of him if we'd have been going the same way; as it was, we were not, and we got our green light while his was still at red - he started to move when we did, and then realised and had to stop again.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  10. Kenny
    Member

    I was thinking that driving in this area had got more considerate

    I think it has - I've had about a year of better experience with drivers, but strangely with the lighter evenings, this past week things have made a turn for the worse. Hopefully I've just had an unlucky week.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  11. gembo
    Member

    Think annual march roadworks bring out the worst in some drivers. Will settle down when underspend spent in April. Then gets mental at festival.

    Fridays these days traffic often light as nobody works a friday

    Posted 10 years ago #

  12. davey2wheels
    Member

    Yet more piss poor judgement shown this afternoon by the driver in a white Fiat 500, WV63 MXZ. Who, despite still clearly seeing me after her view was blocked by pedestrians, still continued to pull out of Lochrin Place directly into my path.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  13. fimm
    Member

    Chap in black Audi went through blatantly red light on pedestrian crossing near BikeTrax

    Posted 10 years ago #

  14. algo
    Member

    Still shaking and fuming about this...

    I took my daughter for her post-lunch nap in the trailer around the seat this afternoon - very windy and exhausting but great as usual. As I was returning along Holyrood Park Road here:

    as there were many cars parked in the left lane, i shoulder checked and saw nothing coming so moved in to the right lane. As I do when with the trailer I kept looking over my shoulder, and saw a black Audi (possibly A6 I think) approaching very fast, and decided to seek refuge on the left - the car missed the trailer by literally inches and I let out an involuntary yelp. 15m later at the red light, with the car in the left hand lane as I pulled up in the ASL to go right, I got a barrage of incredibly threatening abuse from a very large man who told me to be over on the left. I was incensed and quoted various highway code/bike ability things at him and asked him for his references for this advice other than his own bigotry. I forgot to say anything about the fact he was approaching a red light.

    I have not yet been this scared by a car when pulling the trailer - nor have I been as as sure I was going to have to physically defend myself and my daughter. If it came to that I'd be about as much use as a blancmange... the man is incredibly threatening - I didn't get the reg number (very annoyingly).

    Wingpig gave me excellent advice which was to appear exasperated rather than angry - and I gave that a go, and it may have saved my bacon. I don't need a reason to cement my belief in movements such as Pedal on Parliament, but this sort of behaviour and occurrence is depressingly all to common.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  15. ARobComp
    Member

    Sorry to hear Algo. I tend to avoid that road at the weekend instead going through east parkside (where I live) and heading into town that way. It's mad with all the cars parked there. Although if you were heading down towards Dalkeith there is not much you could have done differently!

    Always the Audi drivers t'aint it.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  16. algo
    Member

    thanks ARobComp - I should have gone that way you're right.... I didn't want to reinforce the Audi thing - but that's what it was....

    Posted 10 years ago #

  17. Stickman
    Member

    Roadworks back on Wester Coates, so of course that meant a taxi had to squeeze past me at the pinch point.

    Then when I got to the Roseburn junction there was no-one else there so I sat in the ASL waiting to go straight on. A motorbike pulled up behind me and kept revving aggressively while the light was red. Light turns green and the motorbike undertakes me (with a biiiiig swerve) and goes revving off at high speed into the distance.

    That stretch of road brings out the best in drivers.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  18. wingpig
    Member

    One of the top end of Lothian Road's sinkholes is currently being fixed, with resultant blockage of the bus lane. A Beemer attempted to dive to the left to undertake a car heading north at merely the speed limit, having to sheepishly slow and swerve back when its driver noticed the blocked lane.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  19. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Yesterday's rubbish driving must surely be from whoever managed to get their hatchback upside down on the wrong side of Esslemont Road last night at the lights with Craigmillar Park/Lady Road.

    I just passed by the aftermath - didn't see what happened and can't imagine how you could get a car into that position without doing something murderously irresponsible. Nothing on the BBC website, so I guess no one was hurt....

    Posted 10 years ago #

  20. Stickman
    Member

    can't imagine how you could get a car into that position...

    Another mysterious case of "the car left the road" independent of the driver. I'm sure Isaac Asimov would be very interested in these sentient automobiles.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  21. wingpig
    Member

    I blame the road camber. Or the tiny chevrons.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  22. holisticglint
    Member

    Can't find any current reference to the crash but that corner has form:

    http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19790915&id=V8FAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=46UMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4580,3025497

    Posted 10 years ago #

  23. fimm
    Member

    From holisticglint's link:
    "...a car he was driving failed to negotiate a bend..."

    Posted 10 years ago #

  24. Dangerous
    Member

    Morrison Street - West Maitland Street junction @ Haymarket.

    Multiple drivers performing (currently*) illegal right turn from Morrison Street to West Maitland Street and cutting across the Green Man for Pedestrians.

    Makes a change from the illegal left turn from Dalry Road to Glasgow Road which cuts across another Pedestrian Crossing on Green.

    * Gas Main works has closed this right turn.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  25. Stickman
    Member

    Just one of those rubbish trips home this evening.

    Firstly, a taxi squeezed past me and another cyclist as we both rejoined Haymarket Terrace from the wee cut-in bike lane outside the station.

    Then, just like every single other car that ever goes up there, a beige 4x4 cuts the corner as he turns right onto Roseburn Gardens, just as I'm coming down towards the junction. This time though, without me saying or doing anything (other thane being on the correct side of the road) the driver gives me the finger. He was a particularly ugly agressive-looking fat bloke and I have to admit that words to this effect passed my lips as he went past. I'll be keeping my eye out for this ***** in future.

    Finally, I was waiting to cross Saughtonhall Road from Riversdale when a car pulled up beside me. He seemed to think that I was holding him up, rather than the traffic heading both ways. When it did clear he then attempted to undertake before thinking better of it until then speeding past me on Saughtonhall Crescent.

    Rubbish rubbish rubbish driving.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  26. chrisfl
    Member

    A taxi driver (LD60 SJH?) on Gorgie Road this morning who was holding and playing with his PDQ (Credit Card Payment Machine) with both hands as he drove down the road.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  27. SRD
    Moderator

    I was heading away from town on Gilmore place (almost Granville terrace) when a white estate type vehicle, whoe plate I thought read SPOV ATB pulled out of out Merchiston mews, first nearly colliding with w vehicle travelling eastwards, then continued across into Merchiston park - only problem was that I was directly in his line of travel. Elderly chap in afghani style hat and full white beard. Had youngish boy in the back seat. Shouldn't be driving as far as I can see, and was planning on reporting him for dangerous driving but plate number is coming up as legit. Anyone know better than me (British plates continue to baffle me).

    Thanks, I'd appreciate any help. This guy needs a visit from the polis.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  28. algo
    Member

    @SRD - it's most likely just the v that's wrong - needs to be a number. I can't seem to find a match though.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  29. Focus
    Member

    Having just turned onto Newbattle Terrace from Pitsligo Road this afternoon, I'm confronted by a woman driving her car almost straight at me as she passes parked cars on her side of the road. Too much effort to give me the right of way I'm entitled to. Bad enough, but as soon as she's past, a black cab driver decides it's fun to do the same thing whilst grinning and sticking two fingers up at me!

    On my return trip, I was passed too close by a car just over the brow of the bridge on Viewforth, the driver desperate to beat me to the red light at Dundee St. Amazingly, he actually stopped at the ASL line. Now, had I not already been fed up of antagonistic driving, I would probably have stayed behind him, but I sauntered past to the ASL box and asked what the point of his move was as I passed his window. While I was in the box, he wound down his window to swear his head off. I just stayed focussed on the lights. Once round the corner, he zoomed off to get stuck at the Telfer subway ped crossing red light, showing he still hadn't learned his lesson.

    What is wrong with some people?

    Posted 10 years ago #

  30. BenN
    Member

    @SRD - Police can wildcard search by inputting 'White + Estate + Partial Plate", so one missing character shouldn't be too much of a problem

    Posted 10 years ago #

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