No i mean people that will do 45 in a 60 and then when you get into a village which is 30 they still continue at 45.
They are absolute ****heads.
Ten Good Natured Driving Irritations
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No i mean people that will do 45 in a 60 and then when you get into a village which is 30 they still continue at 45.
They are absolute ****heads.
See a lot of people doing that. Some don't even notice the average speed cameras all over rural villages around here now (always in 30mph zones). They just cruise through them at 40 completely oblivious, which is quite satisfying to watch 
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Happens round here every single day
There's a dual carriageway on my way back from work. The main (left hand) lane is where the bulk of commuters generally want to be. The right hand lane goes over a flyover to ungobungoland (or just somewhere I don't care about
).So there's me, and all the other drivers who've got in the correct (left) lane and plod along in the queue to get where we're going. Then there's the other 60% of drivers who shoot down the right hand lane and suddenly indicate left and proceed to force their way in just before the flyover.
Same people, every day .... annoys the bejeezus out of me.
Just as annoying, all the cretins that let them do it every time. Everyone knows they've got in the wrong lane intentionally to avoid the queue because they're oh so much more important that the rest of us. Make them damn well sit there and stop letting them in. Maybe they'll get the hint eventually (probably not).
Or complain to the council to get en extra lane for the ''main'' direction.
The problem is not the drivers (mis)behaving, it is the lack of capacity caused by inept morons in the council/government (and of course left wing eco morons and nimby).
I let people in who are in a hurry too when I'm not. It's simple, if I'm in a hurry I'll be doing the same, when I have the time, I will let others in who are in a hurry.
I don't agree with the ''wait in line'' philosophy in traffic, you travel at the speed you want to travel, just like when walking, cycling or on the motorbike. With the car it's harder due to people who believe in queues/waiting in lines...
Haha, the mornings are deserted in supermarkets, I don't understand either though, If I don't have to work there's no way in hell I'll get up before 10 am, love sleeping in to much
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Unfortunately the council in question have no interest in doing anything about it and have steadfastly refused to take any action to ease traffic in the area as you're leaving their town. I'd love to see them put a barrier down between the lanes as that would immediately solve the problem.
Sorry, but I completely disagree with that statement. The problem most definitely is (at least partly) the driver's problem. It's ignorance and bad manners plain and simple. What makes them so special that they don't have to queue? If everybody had that attitude, it'd be chaos, and there'd be ten times more accidents as people barged their way into a space because they couldn't be bothered to wait. I don't like queueing anymore than the next person, but I'm also not an ingoramus who thinks they can push their way in.
If we're going down that route, next time I go to the shops, I'm obviously well within my rights to push past everybody else at the till, dump my stuff on the counter and demand to be served first.
I don't have much problem with motorbikes, pedestrians or cyclists (except those that ride on the road when there's a quite clearly defined cycle track right next to them, and those that think traffic lights don't apply), as none of them really add much time to my daily commute. I do have issues with self important people who think they're entitled to jump the queue the whole time.
I don't, either I'm in a hurry or not, if not, then everyone can cut in as they please for all I care, if I'm in a hurry, I do it myself, simple.
Then don't complain... If you're in a hurry then you can do the exact same thing yourself. You can play all moral high horse about it but you said yourself 60% of people do it, that majority has the right idea.
Yes, waste more tax money, while the solution is clear, more capacity where the road lacks capacity... Not only is that a better way to spend tax money, it'll contribute to a better mobility and thus economic growth.
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Okay, your specific example I can sort of sympathise with, but only because the people merging in will probably end up blocking people in the free-flowing lane who want to go over the fly-over.
But in general, if one lane is queuing and the other is free-flowing, you can bet your life I'm going to move over to the free-flowing lane and merge back in nearer the front. The most common example I find is where there are road-works that cause one lane to be closed off. Most people will merge as soon as they see the first lane closure warning sign, usually several hundred yards in advance. I'll keep using the soon-to-be-closed lane until I actually reach the obstruction, and then merge in. Is that wrong? Am I being self-important? To my mind, I'm just using the road efficiently. If other people want to merge early and queue longer than they have to, that's their prerogative. It certainly doesn't obligate me to do the same.
People that pull in stupidly close in front of you on the motorway forcing you to brake, idiots.
Also, when theres a big clear stretch of road in front, and you can see someone on a side road waiting to pull out. You'd think they'd pull out at the earliest opportunity, but no they wait until you're about two car lengths away and pull out forcing you to brake, morons.
Basically any situation which forces me to brake because of other people's incompetence infuriates me.
Also, when theres a big clear stretch of road in front, and you can see someone on a side road waiting to pull out. You'd think they'd pull out at the earliest opportunity, but no they wait until you're about two car lengths away and pull out forcing you to brake, morons.
Basically any situation which forces me to brake because of other people's incompetence infuriates me.
Agreed.
The worst are trucks or fossile mobiles overtaking on the motorway, who cannot properly watch their mirrors/recognise speed.
There you are pooting about around 100-110 mph and some **** doing half the speed pulls out in front in you, when the road is clear for miles behind you. God forbid they have to release their throttle and make their move 10 seconds later, instead, their 10 seconds cost me (or someone else doing a significantly higher speed) a minute of my journey. It's worse in the more urban areas of Holland, in the far north or east cars seem much more courteous and used to people driving faster, they actually look in their mirrors for longer than 0.1 sec and try to anticipate the speed of traffic behind them.
Except I'm not a hypocrit. Just because all these people are ****holes, doesn't mean it's right, because it isn't.
While I agree investing in the infrastructure would alleviate the problem, it's been campaigned for for about 30 years now if memory serves, but as the problem is not in the town I live in, but the one I have to pass through to get there, nothing happens. The council in question don't give a monkeys about anyone that doesn't live in their town where they've got dual carriageways all the way to the motorway and multiple routes out of town, whereas I live in a town on a peninsula with basically one route out for the 100,000 residents.
But isn't the speed limit in the Netherlands 130km/h (~80mph)
It'd be far less of a problem if the difference in speed was 30mph, not 60mph. But I agree with you in principle. On the flip side, the autobahn in Germany can be a nightmare for overtaking lorries at times. Specifically two lane motorways when the inside lane can be doing ~50-60mph and the overtaking lane is 120mph+. When driving there I'm very careful about checking mirrors well in advance and trying to pick a good time to pull out, but there's only so fast a 1.6l Focus is going to accelerate past something so it can take a while to get past sometimes
Do you have the same bin men as me? Every week, without fail, bin is left slap bang in the middle of a double drive.
Not really an irritation but I get some strange satisfaction on my journey home where the road opens out into two lanes right before a speed camera (30 limit) and the, usually Corsa or Golf driver, who has been up my backside for the last mile or so puts their foot to the floor and is met by two quick flashes. Why is it they always slow down to 20 then? The deed is done already so get on with it.
I'm quite calm on the road but I get really frustrated when some idiot blonde woman makes it her mission to disregard 'merge in turn' and get there before I can. I held my ground, she had to brake or she'd hit me, I looked back and she was doing the whole arm waving thing.
Pffft.
Pffft.
Nooo. You took the bait
Uh oh. I get the feeling we've been here before?
This. Its almost like they slow down in the hope of meeting someone!?!
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"Smart" Motorways...
In theory a good idea, but far too often do I drive on them to find the speed has been lowered with very little traffic around. Even worse, is when they keep changing the speed, e.g. it's all set at 50, but then there's a gantry with 40 across all lanes, then the next gantry is back at 50...
In theory a good idea, but far too often do I drive on them to find the speed has been lowered with very little traffic around. Even worse, is when they keep changing the speed, e.g. it's all set at 50, but then there's a gantry with 40 across all lanes, then the next gantry is back at 50...
And when all the lanes are active people don't use the hard shoulder. I commute on the M62 from Leeds to Huddersfield and back, every day the motorways are 'managed' and I'm lucky if I see 2 vehicles using the hard shoulder lane except when it's to queue to come off at Bradford (even worse are the people who merge into lane 1 from the on ramp when they could just carry on down the hard shoulder!).
One that annoys me, and particularly annoyed me this morning. People on the motorway who you are following at say, 65MPH, they gradually reduce their speed to 60MPH so you go to overtake them, then they increase their speed to 70MPH so you pull in behind them again, then they slow down to 55MPH so you go past them and pull in, then a few minutes later they go past at 80MPH...
WHYY?!?! Pick a bloody speed and stick to it!!!
I'm looking at you, woman in the black 2009 Fiesta Titanium on the M23!
WHYY?!?! Pick a bloody speed and stick to it!!!
I'm looking at you, woman in the black 2009 Fiesta Titanium on the M23!
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