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Originally Posted by Alfiembra
Happening all too often nowadays, I see it all the time when working in the taxi, they think by having the phone on their lap instead of at their ear they won't get caught but it's more obvious what they're doing when their heads are up and down every few seconds.
Taxi drivers u-turning through red lights at the east end of Princes St to get to the Balmoral taxi rank.
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Originally Posted by Future17
There isn't a rank at the Balmoral, not an official one that is but I agree they shouldn't do a u turn through a red light and the reason why many people have a problem with taxi drivers is due to a few who think they can do as they like.
That’s so annoying, it’s compounded by the fact that they usually realise their mistake and pull away like a stabbed rat, they end up making the lights and you don’t.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alfiembra
Are they definitely going through a red light? That junction when it's a green light to go towards either Leith St or Wateloo Place, it's a red light for turning right up the Bridges. At the red for straight on then it's green for the right turn.Quote:
Originally Posted by Future17
They’re turning from the outside lane for going up the bridges when the light is green to go straight ahead. At best they’re turning from the wrong lane, quite often they’re turning when both lights are red and the pedestrian crossing is on go, but is clear of pedestrians. The simple fact is that they shouldn’t be ranking where they are and they shouldn’t be doing u turns either.Quote:
Originally Posted by BS44
recklessness and selfishness
coming down the M90 from Perth this afternoon, busy outside lane moving steadily at 70, all over taking a lot of lorries, caravans, winnebago’s, slower folk, etc. It’s busy enough that I generally couldn’t see the furthest car at the front of the traffic queue in the outside lane, and with a good few cars behind me there too, but we’re moving at 70, and almost everyone is satisfied with that
then comes the utter cretin driving a silver Audi A4, 2 cars in front, who can’t resist demonstrating he’s an ********. A reasonable but small empty stretch of inside lane approaches, and this idiot floors it, and undertakes 4 cars doing 70 and comes within a a couple of inches of hitting either the Winnebago in the inside lane and the first of the 4 cars in the outside lane, and nearly hits the central reservation trying to get his car straightened in the outside lane again. All this, risking a good number of lives, so he can move approximately 10 seconds further up a long chain of traffic, moving at a sensible speed anyway, and still with the front of that chain out of sight in the distance.
folk like that don’t stay alive because of their own driving skills, but by the skills of everyone else :idiot:
I got beeped at today for not giving way to someone who drove the wrong way down a one way street. Wasn’t till a few minutes later that I actually thought that even if it hadn’t been a one way street, I’d still have had right of way. Mental.
Same journey, someone thought it was acceptable to reverse out a side street into moving traffic on Salamander Street during rush hour.
Probably been mentioned as it's a simple one, but people that turn into your lane right in front of you and the entire responsibility to avoid a crash is put on you.
Punctured tyres. 3rd one this year!!
What’s with the yoof’s cycling down the road on a wheelie.
Just being yoofs! Showing off, its what yoof do.Quote:
Originally Posted by patch1875
Drivers and sorry, but particularly women, that I’ve seen that go into panic mode or freeze at the sight and sound of an emergency vehicle. Saw a woman today that stopped in front of a police car with its lights and sirens on such that he was stuck against an island in the road and couldn’t get round her. All she had to do was pull forward a car length, there were no other vehicles in front of her, and to the left slightly and he was away.
The absolute moron who drove up the wrong lane and pulled in front of me when I was first in line at red lights today.
I don't think she was happy when I pulled alongside after the lights and told her I knew a good driving instructor.
Unsure what the cut-off age for yoofs is these days, but I passed a 30ish year old hipster on a bike at Jocks Lodge, cycling (that isn't a surprise), but he was sat back with his arms crossed in front of him, nonchalant to those strike him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby
A no-hander isn't a new thing, loads of kids struggle to master that particular craft, but this was during morning rush hour on Edinburgh roads with a surface akin to the moon.
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Originally Posted by CloudSquall
yep, think some folk need a reminder that the wee bit space on front of vehicles in other lanes has a purpose, its braking distance to avoid a crash, not so selfish twats can shove their nose in front of you and force you to avoid a collision
The Cameron Toll roundabout. Or rather people's inability to follow simple instructions at it, particularly when coming from Peffermill direction.
The left lane is both signed and marked 'store and other routes'. If you are going up Old Dalkeith Road or into Cameron Toll then you should be in this lane. The right lane is clearly marked and signed 'City Centre and Old Town'. Taking the 3rd exit up towards Lady Road or going round to Dalkeith Road? This is for you. It's so ****ing simple but every time you are in the right lane you get at least one twat flying up the left of you on the roundabout as you try to merge into the correct lane. They inevitably glare and shout at you when you beep them to warn them you are there completely oblivious to the fact they can't ****ing drive properly.
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Originally Posted by AltheHibby
Haha thats a good one :greengrin
Same thing happened to us a couple of weeks back. It was my wife who was driving as I'd had a few the night before at the game. We were heading towards Dalkeith Road from Old Dalkieth Road. I was in the passenger seat and could see the car behind us trying to merge into our lane. Told my wife, it's OK your in the right lane. Both my wife and daughter agreed that if it'd be driving I'd probably have tooted and gone into total road rage mode. 😄Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Folk that just drift across lanes, wtf are they doing? Coming through the lights at Barnton heading into Edinburgh, car in front of me was literally straddled across two lanes, started moving into one then decided to settle on the other.
Another idiot today turning left from the outside lane because he didn’t think he could drive in the bus lane. I was also turning left but in the inside lane and had to brake sharply to avoid hitting him.
People that are travelling in the early hours of the morning thinking that speed limits have suddenly been removed and they can go whatever speed they want. Driving home from work this morning just after 4am I was driving along ferry road approaching the lights at quality street were at red for me. 2 cars turned on to ferry road, one was a BMW I think and they other was one of these pick up truck type things and I'm no kidding the pair of them took off like a bat out of hell racing each other. By the time I'd reached the lights at Clermiston they were already hammering through the lights at the bottom of the Drumbrae. They then hammered onto the A90 and disappeared. Pair of absolute whoppers.
Went down to Newcastle yesterday for a gig, live in Porty so went down the A1, traffic was ok but half way down we seen signs saying A1 was closed for 5 nights starting yesterday, after checking online it was confirmed, so we came back via the A68. Jeez what a ****ty wee bendy road the A68 is and the other roads getting onto it. Still can't believe we have these rubbish roads on the east of the country leading out of Scotland to England.
The whole Scottish road network is decades out of date. Edinburgh bypass has been a joke since it was built.Quote:
Originally Posted by J-C
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Originally Posted by J-C
Thats a great road to drive, especially at night with little or no other traffic around!! If I'm coming back from midweek Man City games I'll sometimes come off the M6 at Carlisle and come up the A7 instead of staying on the M6/M74 to Abington and coming up through Biggar.
The A68 is a nice road to drive during daylight hours if it’s not too busy. The A1 is a disgrace, it should’ve been upgraded years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by J-C
That's certainly not the case of the 6miles of newly opened dual carriageway on the A9. 😁Quote:
Originally Posted by Killiehibbie
That the bit with bridges built in the 70's ready for dual carriageway passing underneath?Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
You'll have to be a bit more specific. The whole of the A9 as far as Inverness is being dualled in the next few years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Killiehibbie
https://www.transport.gov.scot/media-library/?project=1308
https://www.transport.gov.scot/media-library/?project=1308&project=1311
South of Ballinluig it was pointed out to me that the bridges had been prepared for dualling a long time ago. Over 20 years ago and he told me they had been ready for 20 odd years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
If you mean the bridge from Ballinluig to Aberfeldy, then the road is a dual carriageway to about three quarters of a mile south of the bridge, has been for a good time now, maybe 10 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Killiehibbie
https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Ballinluig_Junction
I remember when that was put in, horrible junction before then. It would be further down the road and it really pissed him off knowing people had died in head on collisions due to it not happening.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
I always think the road links from Edinburgh going south are shockingly poor. There isn't a single motorway link running out of the city to the south.Quote:
Originally Posted by Killiehibbie
You either have the A1 with it's pitiful single carriageway section for miles, a trek across to the M74 or other A roads that are relatively fun to drive but otherwise unfit for purpose as major routes out of a capital city.
Don't even get me started on the Scottish rail network, a relic of another age that should have been improved years ago. Instead we closed much of it down to save cash and then complain more people won't use public transport.
Edinburgh going south has always been crap. I used to prefer cutting across to M74 when driving to London, slightly longer distance but a quicker easier drive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
:agree: Did Edinburgh to Newcastle on the coast road two weekends ago to collect the kitten mentioned on the Cat and Dog thread. Was actually shocked by how poor that road is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Killiehibbie
Electric scooters. Some bright spark was on the Harry Lauder road with one earlier 🤬
I saw two people on one of them going down the pleasance.Quote:
Originally Posted by hibee_girl
To the private hire taxi driver that overtook me on the back road from Inverkeithing to Cowdenbeath earlier, on blind bend with double solid white lines in a 40mph zone which I was doing, you sir are an absolute bell end. Professional driver my erchie.
Driving in Buenos Aires.
Girlfriend and I are buying a go pro type of camera to put on our dashboard because we're pretty much 100% sure that it will be used for an insurance claim following an accident at some point.
Everyone gets in the car here already with level 10 road rage, no one can drive to save themselves however everyone believes they are Lewis Hamilton.
I'll have to take the test here in order to get an Argentine license and the practical test appears to be reversing around a cone and you're done.
Bad smash on A77 Saturday morning resulting in road being closed. Onto single carriageway back road from Kilmarnock to Troon with a lot of traffic and one kamikaze pilot thinks he can overtake 12 vehicles in a 40 zone approaching a staggered junction, he just made it in behind me as a car emerged at the junction. If the car behind hadn't let him in there was another road closure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hermit Crab
The absolute bellend of a cyclist who as I was turning left out of Kaimes Road this morning into the bus lane at 7am decided to undertake me on inside and also turn left, almost hit him.
Without trying to diminish peoples reports on bad driving, here are a few daily occurrences in Thailand...
People on mopeds driving against one way traffic.
As above but at night with no lights.
People on mopeds joining the main flow of traffic from a side road on the left without looking right.
Bike riders not using mirrors.
Car drivers not using mirrors.
Driving slowly in fast lane and refusing to move.
Joining main flow of 90kph traffic from a side road by forcing their way out then proceeding at 40kph.
Drivers to whom staying in your lane at roundabouts means nothing.
Changing lanes without signalling.
Not turning lights on in heavy rain or lighting up time.
Forgetting to turn indicators off (this includes so called professional drivers, taxis, lorries, police)
Turning left whilst signalling right or vice versa.
Just not signalling.
Jumping red lights.
All the above and more you see daily. Got to have your wits about you.
See much the same in this country.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby
After watching the Top Gear Burma special I can imagine all of the above. Absolutely terrifying.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby
The knob who thought he could drive the wrong way along Kirk Loan this morning and didn’t look too happy when I told him what a dick he was. It wasn’t a mistake he knew exactly what he was doing.
As in driving up to St Johns Rd from the library?Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibee
That's not an easy thing to do!
Came from the NHS car park and thought he would just head to St John’s Road despite their being four cars heading towards him.Quote:
Originally Posted by speedy_gonzales
People who don’t put their shopping trolley away when they’ve loaded their car up. Yesterday I saw a trolley roll into a parked car. Absolute *****house behaviour.
Dickheads. :agree:Quote:
Originally Posted by lord bunberry
There’s a couple of spaces, good ones (i.e. close to the entrance) at the car park at Tesco near me that look available until you’re about to pull in and some bawbag has left their trolley there.
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Originally Posted by lord bunberry
Its partly that reason I always parked well away from the main entrance at supermarkets or other big shops, rogue trolleys and the fact that nobody will park beside you if you're far away. A lot of lay bassas nowadays fight it out for spaces close to the entrance because they don't want to walk the length of their nose.
You've got a DRT heading for an RPB?Quote:
Originally Posted by lord bunberry
Probably already been posted but....
People who slam on their brakes, then indicate to turn left when they're already half way round the corner.
Fortunately I like to keep a safe distance between myself and the car in front but the idiot that did in East Kilbride today is not going to be so lucky the next time.
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Originally Posted by Keith_M
Maybe an attempt at crash for cash?
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Originally Posted by Hermit Crab
I never thought of that. You just never know, I suppose.
People in car parks who cannot park properly, with one side of their car parked on the line therefore making the space net to them tiny and no car able to get in unless it's a Fiat500. Don't get me started on the pricks that take 2 parking spaces for their big SUV's.
Pretty sure I seen a post on social media recently, car parking hacks and how "you've been doing it wrong all this time". Apparently, if everyone parked on the line then all the cars would be equally spaced out!Quote:
Originally Posted by J-C
Was just about to post something similar, needs everyone to do it but makes perfect sense!Quote:
Originally Posted by speedy_gonzales
I was driving North towards the Queensferry Crossing on the M90 today when I became aware of a Deliveroo chap on a scooter (with an L plate) passing me on the hard shoulder.
He then moved into the inside lane then back onto the hard shoulder. After passing a turn off which he presumably had missed by mistake he stopped on the hard shoulder, turned around and headed back towards the junction on the hard shoulder.
I’m sure the recipients of his delivery would be grateful for him going to such lengths to deliver their food.
Until you get the space with a wall or trolley bay beside it.Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
Exactly. While the idea half makes sense, it sounds like something suggested by those who park badly. If they can't fit a car that's under 2m wide between 2 lines 2.5m apart, we're meant to trust them to park bang on the line? That'll be right!Quote:
Originally Posted by Killiehibbie
On the subject of Car Parks...
If my wife ever goes into a Car Park that's already almost full, I'm usually delighted, because she'll take the first available space.
My nightmare is to go into a Car Park where there's loads of possible spaces to park in and she'll drive round for ages trying to make up her mind about what's the best option.
"How about that one?" -- "Too near the trolley park"
"Well this one then?" --- "Nah, there's an SUV parked nearby"
"What abut this one?"--- "That's next to the disabled spaces" ---
...."Aye, but it's not a disabled space" --- "You're so inconsiderate. What if the disabled spaces are all taken and somebody wants to park next to it instead. Pr1ck!"
"Well how about here" --- "Are you kidding? That's miles from the front door"
"Well that one over there?" --- "Don't be so lazy, That's right next to the front door."
"How about this one?" --- "The sun's came out, I want to park in the shade"
"Well under those trees then?" --- "Are you mad? There could be muggers or psychos hiding behind there, just waiting to pounce".
and on, and on, and on, and on......
Only works if everyone does it, not one self git who can't park.Quote:
Originally Posted by speedy_gonzales
Might work if Marshall's directing everybody into a specific space Florida style and no obstructions preventing doors opening.Quote:
Originally Posted by J-C
Drivers who avoid using the bus lanes when they are out of use….then cut across back into inside lane nearing junction etc.
Check the wee blue sign and simply use the road please.
But what if somebody reverse parked?Quote:
Originally Posted by speedy_gonzales
You mean parked properly?Quote:
Originally Posted by w pilton hibby
You wouldn’t want to reverse park into a supermarket parking space, you’d struggle to get access to your boot.Quote:
Originally Posted by AltheHibby
Funnily, I rarely have any issues and if I do I just move the car forward a foot. Much safer than reversing into a lane full of Brummies.Quote:
Originally Posted by lord bunberry
Agreed, like to take the trolley right up to my boot.Quote:
Originally Posted by lord bunberry
The Calder Road is bad for that, especially heading into town.Quote:
Originally Posted by HibbyDave
I know of certain big companies who impose reverse parking in their employee car parks. This is because arrival times are generally more staggered/varied than leaving times, so reversing/manoeuvring is done when there's less traffic.Quote:
Originally Posted by AltheHibby
In other car parks when people are in and out all the time it makes no difference - other than the trolley thing (I always park nose first at supermarkets).
Coming off the roundabout at saughton onto Westfield road is terrible for this,the looks you get when going up the Greenway when in reg as other cars are backing up from the lights is hilarious. Likewise further down coming off the west approach towards town, almost everyone changes to the right lane and give you the eyes as you pass them on the insideQuote:
Originally Posted by Onceinawhile
They have that at Amazon in Dunfermline.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
SSE in Perth is the same, someone almost got run over by a car reversing out of a space before they introduced it.Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
Me too but in places that there's a liklihood of no one taking the space in front or behind.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
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Aye, try reversing out of a supermarket space with large suvs with dark windows that you can’t see what is coming!Quote:
Originally Posted by O'Rourke3
That takes me back! Introduced by Jim Forbes in 1998.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
When you're happily plodding along at the speed limit for the section of road you're driving on and some knob head drives right up your erse because the speed limit is not fast enough for them, I've seen some ridiculous overtakes in 20 and 30 zones because people are so impatient. Theres just no need for it. White vans are bad for this I find.
When did it become a thing to race up to junctions and make an emergency stop at the line? Three times today I started braking on the main road as I was sure the cars on the side road were coming straight out. Happening more and more
Will almost certainly have been posted before but I need to vent.
People who drive at 40 mph on a winding national limit road road, only to shoot up to 60/70 when you finally get to a straight where you could overtake the buggers. AND THEN BACK TO 40 AFTER THE STRAIGHT [emoji2959]
Pet peeve bordering on dangerous driving.
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Are you saying they should drive at the same speed on the windy bendy bits as they do on the straights?Quote:
Originally Posted by Franck Le God
That’s what I was thinking too, I regularly drive slower than the speed limit if it’s dark and I’m on a country road I’m not familiar with. You never know when the next bend is coming up. If it’s a straight road I’m more than happy to drive at the speed limit.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
More than happy for them to go the speed they're comfortable with, I was the same when I first started driving on the road in question. But I would also let cars behind overtake me to avoid frustration for other drivers.Quote:
Originally Posted by EH6 Hibby
Either way, not saying one's right and one's wrong, just needed the vent!
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I’m not a new driver but I’m a city driver 95% of the time. I am fine on dual carriageways and I’m confident in driving long distances when I have a need to. Have to admit I get seriously stressed on those country roads though if I have someone behind me, if possible I will pull over. During the day I would be more likely to drive at around 50 on unfamiliar roads which is still too slow for some people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Franck Le God
I get really annoyed by the same thing. I think some folk think they're doing you a favour by speeding up on the straights - by letting you go faster too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Franck Le God
I have a 10 mile drive to work. It's mostly an A road and there's no need whatsoever to slow down on the bends. Apart from anything else it bumps up your fuel consumption.
There are also folk who slow down on the straights if there's traffic coming the other way.
And then there are some who get humpty and flash you when you eventually manage to overtake them. WTF is that all about?
There's another A road that I use regularly with tighter bends where slowing down is understandable for those that don't know the road. Most of the time here you can tell if someone is local from their number plate. If I'm on such a road that I don't know I'll often let a local to overtake me then follow in his/her wake.
As much as I find it frustrating I too was new to this once and I crawled around the bends, so I never chase right up someone's backside. I drive an Audi and am doing my utmost to banish the stereotype!Quote:
Originally Posted by EH6 Hibby
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The last part is a good point as it’s much easier following a car on a road you don’t know in the dark.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peevemor
Same thing in fog. I was on Saddleworth Moor a few years ago and it was very foggy, I was at the front of a few cars and every time I pulled over to let them pass they all pulled in as well 🙄Quote:
Originally Posted by lord bunberry
Another time the A9 was blocked by an accident, I know all the back roads so turned back a bit and went up by tulliemet, other cars followed, all the way to my mother in law's house 😂😂
People either not using their indicators or at the very last moment.
It's quite common these days.
I’m not surprised. Is SSE still very health and safety conscious? A guy I worked with moved to SSE and when we met up for a pint a couple of months after he moved, he said that they were overkill on the H&S and mentioned that it was a disciplinary offence if you were caught walking up or down the stairs without holding the handrail.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moulin Yarns
I don't know and the person who I know works from home just now, and is wheelchair bound so won't be pulled up for the handrailQuote:
Originally Posted by overdrive
I ventured out the house for the first time in 2 and a half weeks last night following various covid isolations. I was on the 22 bus going towards town when it joined a queue of traffic at temporary lights at Broomhouse/Stenhouse Drive. It became apparent that the lights for our direction were stuck on red but were working the other ways. It was crazy the number of drivers who just point blank refused to go through the red light even though after 3 sets of light changes for the other directions that it was obvious when our lights should have been green. The bus driver ended up having to overtake a number of cars that just refused to go.
Edit: I was half expecting the same cars to be sat there on the way back.
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Originally Posted by overdrive
That is the perfect example of obedient driving v pragmatic driving.
They can't teach that in the lessons.
Aye and then you get to a town with a 20 or 30mph limit and they stay at 40mph!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Franck Le God
Yes! Forgot this part but very much 2 peas of the same peeve podQuote:
Originally Posted by Onceinawhile
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Nicholas Witchell
Oops wrong peeve
He drives everyone to reach for the remote.Quote:
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Originally Posted by Hiber-nation
Especially Prince Charles :wink:Quote:
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