I don't know why but the council here has resurfaced two local roads and they've made them about 6-8 feet narrower which is absolutely bizarre. The other day I was driving down one of these roads for the first time and a bus coming the opposite direction literally had no choice but to encroach into my side of the road round a bend, I must have come within 5CM of the kerb and the corner of the bus. It's as if they totally forgot why those sections were wider before and that a bus or even worse a lorry would ever have to drive down this roadTwo roads here been resurfaced with no white lines, apparently this makes it more difficult to stay on your side of the road?
I think driving standards in general have dropped dramatically since i started driving 10 years ago. No doubt those of you who have been driving longer, will have seen more of a change...
special awareness
Clearly we've all had experiences of tailgating (nowadays mainly Audi drivers), drivers coming the other way who can't be bothered to dip their main headlights, BMW drivers who can't indicate.
I seem to be experiencing a new menace just recently that I don't remember having before, i.e. having cars coming the other way quite happy straddling the white line and with part of their car on my side of the road. Some are drivers who've overtaken parked cars and seem to wish to really take their time pulling back in again, even if it results in me having to slow down. Last night, I came across a guy waiting at a set of lights, 2 feet of his car on the "wrong side of the road" and with seemingly no genuine reason, as there was plenty of space to his left.
Anyone else see a lot of this more recently?
Anyone else as annoyed as me by it?