Driving Pet Peeves

[overdrive]

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People who don’t use bus lanes when they’re closed. You’re causing disruption and queueing to traffic. People hesitate to undertake so it causes congestion. Then the last minute pull in left when bus lane end signs appears. THEY’RE ONLY OPEN LIMITED DAYS/TIMES PAY ATTENTION!

Should be fined for not driving in the correct lane.

PS - great thread :D

Annoys me no end too. You get dirty looks from people too.

Mentioned this before but it’s linked to this, when the bus lanes are operational and there’s congestion on approach to the bus lane, everyone goes into the outside lane leaving the inside lane up to the bus lane empty. When you do what you are supposed to do, i.e. use both lanes and merge into the outside lane, you get people getting angry at you for skipping the queue. It’s causing more congestion!!

[O'Rourke3]

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Annoys me no end too. You get dirty looks from people too.

Mentioned this before but it’s linked to this, when the bus lanes are operational and there’s congestion on approach to the bus lane, everyone goes into the outside lane leaving the inside lane up to the bus lane empty. When you do what you are supposed to do, i.e. use both lanes and merge into the outside lane, you get people getting angry at you for skipping the queue. It’s causing more congestion!!

My latest wheeze was a couple of weeks back around 7:00 pm. Car in front was in the inside lane correctly but clearly wanted to go into the other lane which was busy. So drove at 10 MPH. Got into the outside lane before immediately dropping back into the inside to go across the next and repeat... Unf$%^&ing believable!

[Scouse Hibee]

Just this morning on the Glasgow Road, heading West in the bus lane when the clown in the outside lane cuts across in front of me to turn left into David Lloyd with no indication, had to slam on to avoid hitting him.

[silverhibee]

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People who don’t use bus lanes when they’re closed. You’re causing disruption and queueing to traffic. People hesitate to undertake so it causes congestion. Then the last minute pull in left when bus lane end signs appears. THEY’RE ONLY OPEN LIMITED DAYS/TIMES PAY ATTENTION!

Should be fined for not driving in the correct lane.

PS - great thread :D

Worst offenders are bus and taxi drivers even in peak time.

[silverhibee]

Did I hear right on the radio that Corstorphine Road from Murrayfield will be down to one lane for 6 months for new pipes to be laid, that will be absolute carnage, starting next month I think.

[speedy_gonzales]

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Did I hear right on the radio that Corstorphine Road from Murrayfield will be down to one lane for 6 months for new pipes to be laid, that will be absolute carnage, starting next month I think.

One lane each direction?
Unsure how much difference it will make as there's pinch points all the way along from Roseburn to Drum Brae.

[silverhibee]

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One lane each direction?
Unsure how much difference it will make as there's pinch points all the way along from Roseburn to Drum Brae.

It said down to one lane which I took as you waiting at the lights for ages for oncoming traffic.

[CropleyWasGod]

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Did I hear right on the radio that Corstorphine Road from Murrayfield will be down to one lane for 6 months for new pipes to be laid, that will be absolute carnage, starting next month I think.

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One lane each direction?
Unsure how much difference it will make as there's pinch points all the way along from Roseburn to Drum Brae.

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It said down to one lane which I took as you waiting at the lights for ages for oncoming traffic.

Traffic lights

https://www.scottishwater.co.uk/Abou...storphine-Road

[speedy_gonzales]

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Traffic lights

https://www.scottishwater.co.uk/Abou...storphine-Road

Ooooft, 6 months of TTL's regulating traffic in one direction at a time!
That will be fun and games!
It's obviously necessary works, nobody wants toilet wipes in fresh water courses, but 6 months!

[AltheHibby]

Not a driving peeve, but a design one.

Back in the 70s the Ford Capri was a slimline sports car. I saw the new one, and it's a big fat, overwieght thing that needs a load of space. Seems that Ford have updated it to match the shape of us once slim 70s guys.

And I don't like it!

[Pretty Boy]

About 75% of drivers at Cameron Toll roundabout. It's not remotely difficult but some seem to think it's the final round of the Krypton Factor.

Woman this morning just about side swiped me as she tried to veer across two lanes to exit. She was taking the first exit so how is it even possible to think being in the right hand lane on approach is correct? She was gesticulating at the 3 other drivers who all blasted their horns at her so clearly thought she was correct rather than it being a mistake. Gesticulating in between cramming the sandwich she was eating into her gob with no hands on the wheel that is.

[hibsbollah]

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Not a driving peeve, but a design one.

Back in the 70s the Ford Capri was a slimline sports car. I saw the new one, and it's a big fat, overwieght thing that needs a load of space. Seems that Ford have updated it to match the shape of us once slim 70s guys.

And I don't like it!

There’s a new Capri?! Im assuming its based on a ford mustang? (Original idea behind the 70s capri was to be a brit version of the us mustang.)I loved knocking about Edinburgh in my capri in the 90s, when it was a throwback even then. Such a fun car to drive. I had a quick look at prices and i almost fell off my chair. Classic cars wasnt a particularly expensive hobby when i was young but these days a mortgage is required.

Maybe when im retired….

[McD]

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There’s a new Capri?! Im assuming its based on a ford mustang? (Original idea behind the 70s capri was to be a brit version of the us mustang.)I loved knocking about Edinburgh in my capri in the 90s, when it was a throwback even then. Such a fun car to drive. I had a quick look at prices and i almost fell off my chair. Classic cars wasnt a particularly expensive hobby when i was young but these days a mortgage is required.

Maybe when im retired….

Don’t look at the new one mate, it’ll break your heart…

[speedy_gonzales]

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There’s a new Capri?! Im assuming its based on a ford mustang? (Original idea behind the 70s capri was to be a brit version of the us mustang.)I loved knocking about Edinburgh in my capri in the 90s, when it was a throwback even then. Such a fun car to drive. I had a quick look at prices and i almost fell off my chair. Classic cars wasnt a particularly expensive hobby when i was young but these days a mortgage is required.

Maybe when im retired….

You're not far off, the "new" Capri bears an uncanny resemblance to the "new" Mustang Mach-E.
One thing they definitely have in common is that their designs are equally horrific.

[Scouse Hibee]

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There’s a new Capri?! Im assuming its based on a ford mustang? (Original idea behind the 70s capri was to be a brit version of the us mustang.)I loved knocking about Edinburgh in my capri in the 90s, when it was a throwback even then. Such a fun car to drive. I had a quick look at prices and i almost fell off my chair. Classic cars wasnt a particularly expensive hobby when i was young but these days a mortgage is required.

Maybe when im retired….

It looks like it’s designed on a box that Mustang parts come in!!! A total travesty trying to associate it with with the name Capri.

[hibsbollah]

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It looks like it’s designed on a box that Mustang parts come in!!! A total travesty trying to associate it with with the name Capri.

I’ve just had a look.
They’ve broken it.

[Keith_M]

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I’ve just had a look.
They’ve broken it.

[c31]

Sheriffhall roundabout, something need done now about the congestion at this junction. I though an underpass was going to be installed to manage the traffic here but there's queues all the time. Need sorted asap as its just a joke!!

[JimBHibees]

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Sheriffhall roundabout, something need done now about the congestion at this junction. I though an underpass was going to be installed to manage the traffic here but there's queues all the time. Need sorted asap as its just a joke!!

Genuinely never understood why there wasn’t an underpass similar to Newbridge surely not that difficult. Bypass is a car park around there

[silverhibee]

The overall driving in Edinburgh from folk is poor, folk don’t indicate anymore, some folk don’t drive like they have passed a driving test, FFS you drive round a roundabout not straight across worst place for me is Corstorphine at the roundabout, an utter nightmare with accidents every other week and two people killed last year.

[Smartie]

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The overall driving in Edinburgh from folk is poor, folk don’t indicate anymore, some folk don’t drive like they have passed a driving test, FFS you drive round a roundabout not straight across worst place for me is Corstorphine at the roundabout, an utter nightmare with accidents every other week and two people killed last year.

I’ve noticed the standard deteriorate really quite badly over the past couple of years - folk jumping lights, nipping out, tailgating etc. Definitely more risk taking. You’ve got to have your wits about you, anticipating stupidity at all times, more than ever.

[RyeSloan]

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Genuinely never understood why there wasn’t an underpass similar to Newbridge surely not that difficult. Bypass is a car park around there

Plans have been in place for ages for an upgrade but it’s been stalled at every turn and of course we have the greens to thank for it being delayed even more.

Maybe this might get the approved plans moving forward but I doubt it as the SG seems to think that it’s totally acceptable for the nonsense to continue forever.

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.c...pgrade-5154999

[BILLYHIBS]

Agree with all of the above

Biggest danger on the roads just now are other drivers totally unpredictable got to keep your wits about you

[Donegal Hibby]

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Agree with all of the above

Biggest danger on the roads just now are other drivers totally unpredictable got to keep your wits about you

I drive on country roads and the big thing I have noticed is they are driving faster and taking up more road than they should . A lot seem to think they don’t need to indicate anymore either

[overdrive]

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I drive on country roads and the big thing I have noticed is they are driving faster and taking up more road than they should . A lot seem to think they don’t need to indicate anymore either

There seems to be a bunch of people who think putting on their hazards is the more appropriate thing to do rather than using an indicator as well when parking.

My wife was giving me a lift on Friday and she was driving down Restalrig Rd and as were approaching the Morrisons Local, there was a lorry coming the other way and there wasn't enough room for both us and the lorry. The lorry then puts on its hazards so my wife pulls in to a gap to allow the traffic behind the lorry to pass. Lorry driver goes mental at my wife because she pulled into where he was going to park. Indicate right, then pal and she'd maybe have a vague idea of what you were intending to do.

[Jones28]

Re-surfacing, or lack of.

South Lanarkshire council seem to be resurfacing by filling in the bigger holes and then slathering some lovely, paint-chipping, windscreen cracking gravel over the top?

Can anyone shed any light on why? Cost will be a factor obviously but does it actually work?

[Pretty Boy]

Cyclists who skip red lights. Does my ****ing head in and I type this as a cyclist who witnessed it repeatedly this morning on my own commute to work.

There is already a not insignificant minority of drivers who see cyclists as 'fair game' and these blatant breaches of the laws of the road just ramp up that tension and put the rest of us in danger. 'If they don't respect the rules then why should I respect them' becomes the mentality.

One guy today came flying past me at a 4 way junction, no attempt to or consideration given to stopping or even slowing down, straight across the junction sending a group of pedestrians crossing jumping out the way. He either didn't see them or didn't care, both are as bad and as dangerous as each other.

[nonshinyfinish]

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Cyclists who skip red lights. Does my ****ing head in and I type this as a cyclist who witnessed it repeatedly this morning on my own commute to work.

There is already a not insignificant minority of drivers who see cyclists as 'fair game' and these blatant breaches of the laws of the road just ramp up that tension and put the rest of us in danger. 'If they don't respect the rules then why should I respect them' becomes the mentality.

One guy today came flying past me at a 4 way junction, no attempt to or consideration given to stopping or even slowing down, straight across the junction sending a group of pedestrians crossing jumping out the way. He either didn't see them or didn't care, both are as bad and as dangerous as each other.

Yep, also a cyclist and I hate this.

It's often cast as cyclists vs drivers but really it's pricks (cyclists, drivers, whoever) vs the rest of us.

[J-C]

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Cyclists who skip red lights. Does my ****ing head in and I type this as a cyclist who witnessed it repeatedly this morning on my own commute to work.

There is already a not insignificant minority of drivers who see cyclists as 'fair game' and these blatant breaches of the laws of the road just ramp up that tension and put the rest of us in danger. 'If they don't respect the rules then why should I respect them' becomes the mentality.

One guy today came flying past me at a 4 way junction, no attempt to or consideration given to stopping or even slowing down, straight across the junction sending a group of pedestrians crossing jumping out the way. He either didn't see them or didn't care, both are as bad and as dangerous as each other.

I nearly wiped out a lassie on her bike 2 weeks ago, I'm at the lights at Waterloo Pl and they go green, she comes flying through the red from Leith St, missed her by a baw hair, all she could do was smile and put her hand up to apologise, ******g eejit.

[SickBoy32]

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Cyclists who skip red lights. Does my ****ing head in and I type this as a cyclist who witnessed it repeatedly this morning on my own commute to work.

There is already a not insignificant minority of drivers who see cyclists as 'fair game' and these blatant breaches of the laws of the road just ramp up that tension and put the rest of us in danger. 'If they don't respect the rules then why should I respect them' becomes the mentality.

One guy today came flying past me at a 4 way junction, no attempt to or consideration given to stopping or even slowing down, straight across the junction sending a group of pedestrians crossing jumping out the way. He either didn't see them or didn't care, both are as bad and as dangerous as each other.

Will hold my hands up here and admit to skipping the occasional red light whilst cycling to and from work.

However, only when the situation allows. Ie, I’m not impeding any other road user / pedestrian.

I think if common sense is used then there’s no real issue here tbh. (Appreciate common sense is subjective / pretty scarce sometimes!)

The guy you’ve referenced sounds like a total weapon - I’d like to think there’s some distinction between him and myself 😂