Driving Pet Peeves

[Hermit Crab]

Idiots that tailgate you when you're doing the speed limit, Sitting in my boot won't make me go faster. Pricks.


The young lassie in the VW Golf that drove round the wrong side of a mini roundabout in Dunfermline just to overtake a bus then shoot off at about twice the speed limit. Not clever lass and with driving like that you'll end on a slab, or your passengers will.

[Danderhall Hibs]

Folk that cut you up at Harry Lauder (the Range) where they go along the left only lane right to the end before chopping over and then blaming you for not letting them in. Maniacs.

[Pretty Boy]

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Folk that cut you up at Harry Lauder (the Range) where they go along the left only lane right to the end before chopping over and then blaming you for not letting them in. Maniacs.

I never, ever let them in. There is probably the odd occasion that someone has made a mistake but 99% of the time it's chancers who are at it. Nothing better than when you get the perfect scenario of someone in the right lane not letting them in and the driver behind the offender in the left lane hammering the horn whilst Mr chancer sits raging with an indicator on. There's the odd time I've seen someone shamed enough that they are forced to continue up the left lane and turn the wrong way. It's beautiful when it happens.

[Pretty Boy]

People who decide that post filling their car with fuel at the self service pumps is the perfect time to make a phone call, nip in to the store for a weekly shop, sort all the receipts in their wallet then have a 5 minute chat with the passenger.

Fill you car then **** off to one of the other parking spaces to do all the other ***** you need to do so the rest of us can get on with our day.

[LaMotta]

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People who decide that post filling their car with fuel at the self service pumps is the perfect time to make a phone call, nip in to the store for a weekly shop, sort all the receipts in their wallet then have a 5 minute chat with the passenger.

Fill you car then **** off to one of the other parking spaces to do all the other ***** you need to do so the rest of us can get on with our day.

On the flip side people who pull up behind you when you are filling up and waiting ( because their fuel cap is on that side) whilst there are free pumps on the opposite side, but they haven't figured out that the pumps extend so they can fill from either side of any car. Especially if they appear to be getting impatient.

[Wembley67]

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On the flip side people who pull up behind you when you are filling up and waiting ( because their fuel cap is on that side) whilst there are free pumps on the opposite side, but they haven't figured out that the pumps extend so they can fill from either side of any car. Especially if they appear to be getting impatient.

Personally and inexplicably when I did this the hose caused a significant scratch in the bodywork..no idea how but I'll fill up how I want thanks 😉

[LaMotta]

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Personally and inexplicably when I did this the hose caused a significant scratch in the bodywork..no idea how but I'll fill up how I want thanks 😉

You do that, but just don't expect people in front to rush for you because of your inability to work out how to use the other simple to use pumps that are available.

[speedy_gonzales]

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Personally and inexplicably when I did this the hose caused a significant scratch in the bodywork..no idea how but I'll fill up how I want thanks 😉

I personally wouldn't stretch the hose across either unless I absolutely had to.
Forecourts are filthy places, a lot of oil, grease & dirt on those pipes, coupled with the sand they use for fuel spills, no danger I'm stretching that across my rear end 🙄

[McD]

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I never, ever let them in. There is probably the odd occasion that someone has made a mistake but 99% of the time it's chancers who are at it. Nothing better than when you get the perfect scenario of someone in the right lane not letting them in and the driver behind the offender in the left lane hammering the horn whilst Mr chancer sits raging with an indicator on. There's the odd time I've seen someone shamed enough that they are forced to continue up the left lane and turn the wrong way. It's beautiful when it happens.

cannot agree with you more on this

[Danderhall Hibs]

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I never, ever let them in. There is probably the odd occasion that someone has made a mistake but 99% of the time it's chancers who are at it. Nothing better than when you get the perfect scenario of someone in the right lane not letting them in and the driver behind the offender in the left lane hammering the horn whilst Mr chancer sits raging with an indicator on. There's the odd time I've seen someone shamed enough that they are forced to continue up the left lane and turn the wrong way. It's beautiful when it happens.

You should’ve seen what happen last week - I didn’t let her in and she managed to sneak in behind me. Flashing her lights, tooting horn and giving the 1 fingered salute. Then tried to overtake me and went close to a head on before coming back in and increasing the level of tooting and hollering. It was wild - and all cos she ignored the big left only arrow when she came off the roundabout at Asda.

[Silky]

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I never, ever let them in. There is probably the odd occasion that someone has made a mistake but 99% of the time it's chancers who are at it. Nothing better than when you get the perfect scenario of someone in the right lane not letting them in and the driver behind the offender in the left lane hammering the horn whilst Mr chancer sits raging with an indicator on. There's the odd time I've seen someone shamed enough that they are forced to continue up the left lane and turn the wrong way. It's beautiful when it happens.

I live near Porty High School and get that a lot coming past ASDA. There is usually always some bellend sitting in the left lane indicating to get over to go down Harry Lauder. I take great pleasure in sitting behind them hammering the horn and then get some satisfaction when they are foreced to take a left onto Milton Road then spin round, having to then wait at the lights.

[The_Exile]

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Idiots that tailgate you when you're doing the speed limit, Sitting in my boot won't make me go faster. Pricks.

This is my main gripe. I feel around 90% of drivers speed. 30 in a 20, 35-40 in a 30. It’s everywhere, no matter where I go I can have a clear road behind me and within moments I’ve got some prick tailgating me. There’s no police on the roads any more though so not much of a deterrent anywhere.

[J-C]

Edinburgh and the Clowncil who have turned our once beautiful city into a huge car park, yesterday was an absolute nightmare with huge traffic jams in every direction, one cabbie had £60 on his meter for a simple job from Market St to Firhill, he obviously didn't charge here than, £20 I think. Another took 3.5 Hrs to go from RIE to Livingston on a set price fare, normally 40 mins or so.

[speedy_gonzales]

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Edinburgh and the Clowncil who have turned our once beautiful city into a huge car park, yesterday was an absolute nightmare with huge traffic jams in every direction, one cabbie had £60 on his meter for a simple job from Market St to Firhill, he obviously didn't charge here than, £20 I think. Another took 3.5 Hrs to go from RIE to Livingston on a set price fare, normally 40 mins or so.

I don't think you can blame the council for yesterdays congestion.
The bypass was closed by the Police after that lorry fire, forcing 1000's of extra cars per hour to navigate their way through the West of the city.
There were lots of tourists lost, seen a few caravans go up Woodhall Road thinking they could dodge the snarled up traffic through Colinton Village (they were wrong).

[J-C]

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I don't think you can blame the council for yesterdays congestion.
The bypass was closed by the Police after that lorry fire, forcing 1000's of extra cars per hour to navigate their way through the West of the city.
There were lots of tourists lost, seen a few caravans go up Woodhall Road thinking they could dodge the snarled up traffic through Colinton Village (they were wrong).

Added to the road closures, diversions and multitude of road works going on I can blame them. Without a lorry fire on the bypass Edinburgh it's still a nightmare, yesterday just made it worse. Was it the lorry fire that cause traffic problems on Market st and the mound area?

[speedy_gonzales]

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Added to the road closures, diversions and multitude of road works going on I can blame them. Without a lorry fire on the bypass Edinburgh it's still a nightmare, yesterday just made it worse. Was it the lorry fire that cause traffic problems on Market st and the mound area?

To my very limited knowledge, there was no new road closures or diversions implemented by the council yesterday, but driving & cycling around yesterday afternoon there was indeed delayed and queuing traffic in the centre of town exacerbated by the 1000's of extra cars trying to find a route from East to West.
I myself took over 90 minutes to drive from Colinton to Gyle. I put my best taxi driver hat on and tried to figure out a way that avoided what Google said was congested routes. By the time I got to Western Corner I realised everyone was doing the same thing, I'm sure I passed the same Tesco home delivery van 3 times as we were doing circles around each other 😂
My sister-in-law was stuck between Straiton & Dreghorn for over 3 hours.
I also heard this morning that a colleague at work had relations that missed a flight and they'd given themselves hours extra in the vain attempt to beat the recently reported queueing issues that the departure hall security had been experiencing.
That single incident just after 11am caused 9+ hours of delays, congestion and knock on effects.

[CropleyWasGod]

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To my very limited knowledge, there was no new road closures or diversions implemented by the council yesterday, but driving & cycling around yesterday afternoon there was indeed delayed and queuing traffic in the centre of town exacerbated by the 1000's of extra cars trying to find a route from East to West.
I myself took over 90 minutes to drive from Colinton to Gyle. I put my best taxi driver hat on and tried to figure out a way that avoided what Google said was congested routes. By the time I got to Western Corner I realised everyone was doing the same thing, I'm sure I passed the same Tesco home delivery van 3 times as we were doing circles around each other 😂
My sister-in-law was stuck between Straiton & Dreghorn for over 3 hours.
I also heard this morning that a colleague at work had relations that missed a flight and they'd given themselves hours extra in the vain attempt to beat the recently reported queueing issues that the departure hall security had been experiencing.
That single incident just after 11am caused 9+ hours of delays, congestion and knock on effects.

Agree with most of that.

I'm not sure what the Council could have done yesterday. If anything, it highlighted (again) the inadequacy of the Bypass. That's nothing to do with the Council AFAIK.