Flatbed truck going north up Woodburn Terrace this morning doing about 10 mph. I could clearly see through the wing mirrors that the driver was spending more time looking a log book than at the road ahead, nevermind the traffic he was holding up behind. At the Canann Lane junction he stops, then signals left, then starts reversing towards me. With parked cars to my left, traffic approaching from behind and on-coming traffic to my right my options were limited. I shouted and waved in the direction of his mirror, which he thankfully decided to check. He then very kindly waved me past. Err, we'll both wait here until the oncoming traffic has passed thanks.
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Today's rubbish driving...
(11330 posts)- Started 13 years ago by Stepdoh
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Ha. Checked the lights from Coates to West Maitland: bus should not have been heading west when the right-turn eastbound filter was green.
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Complaint sent to Lothian Buses, to see if they can look at their CCTV to see exactly what the driver is doing just as he moves out of frame...
As a bit of light relief on the way home there were these two:
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Not so much rubbish driving as rubbish opening a car door without checking the mirrors, but I only just got away without being 'doored' last night on Valleyfield Street as I was cycling home from work... Admittedly, given that it is a one-way street I could have been far further away from the left-hand parked cars than I was, but I do generally stick towards the left-hand side as I head down there, partly due to the speed bumps but also due to cyclists heading along it in the wrong direction.
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White Van Man in VW Transporter CY08 OSN who went into a fit behind me as I stopped at the red pedestrian on Morrison Street just before the conference centre heading towards Haymarket on Wednesday lunchtime.
I was in primary in order to pass the cars parked just after the lights and had been going at a similar speed as a silver car that had just got through the lights. WVM had just caught up with me as I was slowing for the red light but was immediately shouting at me all the usual guff about being in the middle of the road, etc. Complete road rage: incoherent, (slurred speech?), aggressive, threatening, even opened his door and leaned out to take my photo!
No point in discussing my road position with him - I asked for his name - couldn't understand his ranting, thought he might have been drunk so I pulled in to let him past (still shouting) as I thought there was a good chance of him actually causing me serious harm. I noted his registration and phoned the police. Will be attending a station today to make a complaint.
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"Will be attending a station today to make a complaint."
Good.
I (genuinely) hope you find the process satisfactory.
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This driver who forced her car between myself and another cyclist, only to join a queue of traffic waiting at a red light immediately after:
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Waiting at some temporary traffic lights in East Calder. Van coming up the hill makes a bit of a meal of turning off into a side street, delaying the one car behind it. Our lights go green, but I stay put until the approaching car comes through. Driver of the car behind me assumes I'm standing around for the good of my health and sets off. Oh look, there's a car coming the other way. Numpty manages to pull over far enough for the other car to get through and we all go on our way.
Not really driving, but I had a slightly odd one last night - I became aware that the passenger in the car that was overtaking me was taking a photo of or filming me with their mobile phone. They are allowed to do this, of course, but it was a bit disconcerting! I'm hoping that it was merely that they objected to my nice green and blue cap, and not something I'd done...
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Woman in a black Peugeout 207-type-thing this morning. I opened front door, checked for oncoming vehicles, saw none and began to cross. Then I saw her, driving the wrong way down our one-way street. I caught her eye pointed up at the one way signs and mouthed "it's one way".
I got a "yeah, I know, whattevu" sort of response and she carried on, to turn onto London Road. Part of me wished another car had been oncoming to cause a Mexican standoff from which she would need to have reversed all the way back up the road in shame.
All to avoid going the "right" way which might have added 30 seconds to a minute on to her journey
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Similar one to CJC's video above, though on country lane rather than city street.
Group of 5 of us have just crested a rise and starting to accelerate down the other side. I hear that the car behind is starting to make the pass just as I spot a cyclist (hybrid bike, full hi-viz jacket despite the humid evening) coming the other way. Stick out my hand to warn driver. He ignores the gesture and continues with the overtake. Oncoming cyclist forced onto verge and slaps side of car on way past. Fortunately stayed upright and could continue on his way.
Car never actually gets far enough ahead as to be out of our sight as it's flat or downhill for a mile or two here and twisty, a slow road for a big black 4wd but a fast road for a group of cylists. At the end of this stretch we have to slow before moving out and passing him as he manoeuvres into his drive. Windows open so I point out how much time the stupid overtake has saved him as we pass, but couldn't be bothered stopping for a chat about it.
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I wonder if it's worth reporting to the police. Assuming you know his address then with 5 witnesses confirming that he forced a cyclist of the road I would hope he would at least get a visit from the local plod to make him think.
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Doubt they would do anything without a complaint from the 'victim'. I'll post on a couple of local facebook groups, "were you this cyclist..." etc and see if anything comes of it.
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Or it could be one of two candidates on Strava "flyby". Left comments on their rides so we'll see if it was either of them.
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One very close pass plus two irritating ASL infringements. I wouldn't normally mention it but they were with cars palstered with 'YES' stickers. Not trying very hard are they?
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Hehe, I noticed that a couple of times too but put it down to confirmation bias and the successful campaign to stop people putting the other type of sticker in their car windows.
In other news I reported a van from a company in Sighthill who overtook me on the corner of Bankhead Ave while I was carrying my passenger. He then jumped the red light onto Bankhead Drive. They were very responsive and have confirmed that they will be having a chat with the driver in question.
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I've had words with a driver with a Yes sticker who was parked in the cycle lane then gave me a close pass on the way to a red light while tooting the horn (for reasons unknown). I'm not prepared to forgive anyone for driving like an ar*e, even if they do share a voting intention with me.
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Approximately 50% of bad drivers share a voting intention with all of us who intend to vote.
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The guy who fairly considerately kept behind me over the King's Theatre junction crossing, and then even politely waited until the road was clear in the other direction before overtaking as we headed along Gilmore Place, but who then overtook rather slowly as we passed the parked cars before indicating left, slowing to an almost stop, and turning left onto Gillespie street, which caused me to have to slow down considerably because there was by that time traffic coming in the other direction. Poor decision making.
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It was Friday but coming from Lothian Road through Westport I'd just passed the pedestrian crossing heading towards the grassmarket and the lights at the crossroads were red. A brand new white Lotus decides he wants to beat me to the queue and dangerously overtakes with about an inch clearance while laughing through his wound down window.
Within the remaining few metres to the queue I reach into my jersey pocket pretending to get something out and run my hand near his car whilst making a tssssst sound, put my hand back into my jersey and turn to the driver and say 'laugh at that'. I then pull into the ASL box a few cars ahead
He was so worried about his paintwork, he came running out his car as the lights turned to green, I was cycling well away and the traffic he was then holding up were all beeping their horns at him
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Close pass on Leith Walk this morning. Driver sped off into the distance without a care.
If anyone wants to recommend the best way to edit & upload videos quickly I'd appreciate it. The Contour Storyteller (supplied with camera) is a fundamentally broken piece of software and editing "in the cloud" means I have to upload the full 300Mb clip for 20s of video.
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What OS do you use, @dougal?
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Yodel driver pulling out on me. I wasn't feeling well (get the violins out) at the time and so maybe it isn't really that bad after all.
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@Kenny Got access to OSX and Windows.
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Garmin's VIRB edit runs OK even on my six-year-old llaptop. Just rename .MOV to .mp4 and import.
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@dougal, may I suggest ffmpeg. Details towards the end of this post:
http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12524#post-147938
I can take a video from my GoPro and have 15 seconds of it cut and uploaded to YouTube in under 2 minutes flat, from start to finish, including upload time. I do this on OSX, not Windows, but I'm sure it's almost certainly just as easy on the latter if you can get the binary downloaded.
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Yeah, I might give ffmpeg a shot on the MacBook. I'll maybe play with GoPro or Garmin s/w on the Windows machine.
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Right, had a wee go with ffmpeg. Seems simple enough (!) so here's some bonus material from my ride home today.
I hate Leith Walk.
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Yep, that's certainly video and it seems to be 720p which is likely what your Contour recorded. Looks like a win to me!
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Watch out for white truck SD06 KKJ, especially if you're thinking about letting some pedestrians cross a road at a pedestrian crossing.
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Wow... just... wow. I'm amazed his wing mirror didn't hit you.
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